Khalid Akhtar

For the Pakistani sailor, see Khalid Akhtar (sailor).

Muhammad Khalid Akhtar
Khalid Akhtar picture
Born	1920 Bahawalpur, Punjab, British India
Died	2 February 2002(2002-02-02) (aged 81–82) Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Occupation	writer
Period	1943 to 2000
Genre	Humour
Notable works	Chakiwara Main Visal

Mohammad Khalid Akhtar (Urdu: محمد خالد اختر), (born 1920 in Bahawalpur, died 2 February 2002), was an Urdu-language writer. His satirical novel Chakiwara Mein Visal from 1964 won the Adamjee Literary Award.

Bibliography

• Chakiwara main Visal (1964).
• Khoya Hoa Ufaq (A collection of stories, sketches, satirical essays, the winner of the Adamjee Award in 1967).
• Bees So Giyara (A novel published in 1950 and republished in 1999).
• Yatra (A travelogue published in 1990).
• Do Safar (A travelogue – 1984
• Chacha Abdul Baqi – Stories (Satire) – 1985
• Makatib E Khizar
• Ibn-i-Jubair ka safar (A travelogue published in 1994)
• Laltain Aur Dosari Kahaniyan (Stories and a novella published in 1984)

A complete collection of his short stories, travelogues, and articles is being published by Oxford University Press.

Further reading

• Muhammad Khalid Akhtar's Collection of Stories By Rashid Ashraf
• Khalid Sahab Has Run Away! Again by Musharraf Ali Farooqi | DAWN, 28 August 2011

In August 2010, a PhD thesis was submitted to Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, by Waheed Ur Rehman with the title Muhammad Khalid Akhtar Shakhsiat Wa Fun.