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Mustansar Hussain Tarar, Humaira Channa, Ghazi Salahuddin, Javed Iqbal will also be honoured

Android app serves as digital library, e-publisher for upcoming authors.

It was earlier reported that Irrfan Khan would play the lead role

Fans took to Twitter to break the news, excited about Sarmad's latest achievement

Pakistani actor-director on lack of effective writing in TV and cinema content on both sides of the border

Films all set to be screened in March

The biopic also won the Best Sound and Best Editing awards

Deepika starrer Piku will also be screened alongside the Pakistani film

Progressive Writers Movement celebrates centennial of Rajinder Singh Bedi, Ismat Chughtai

The director has also expressed her desire to shoot some parts of the film in Pakistan

Sarmad Khoosat's directorial set to be screened at 21st Kolkata International Film Festival

US-Pakistan relationship has been as crudely transactional as can be

Sarmad Sultan Khoosat's directorial to be screened at Harvard, Columbia and Yale

Through his writing, Manto put a mirror to society and hoped that we would look into it and search for answers

Director and actor Sarmad Khoosat talks about his latest film playing in cinemas across Pakistan

All three censor boards unanimously approved uncut version of film for public screening

Composer Jamal Rahman on the intense soundtrack for upcoming film

Upcoming biopic is slated to be released on September 11

Actress says it won't be a biopic as she will just be focusing on partition stories by the writer

Manto’s intellect was beyond question, his corpus of works over his lifetime a testimony to the ingenuity he possessed

Actor on making cameo appearance in upcoming film ‘Manto’ and experimenting with different mediums

Cast and crew of upcoming eponymous film on depicting the professional and personal life of the writer

Birthday celebration begins with readings and clips from upcoming TV show on writer’s life.

Literati and members of English Speaking Union gather for a reading session.

His stories might have been obscene but they had a purpose.

Sindh did not undergo“retributive genocide” & consequent total ethnic cleansing that partitioned Punjab suffered.

In today's Pakistan, criminals are given a hero’s welcome and laudable writers are forgotten.

Paying respect to literary figures could help improve the situation in the country, says Senator Rabbani.

It was perhaps fitting that the mehfil was held in a city which the writer adopted as his own.

Randhir reached for his bag and took out a book, 'Selected Stories of Saadat Hasan Manto'.

Present-day literati on Manto’s enduring significance.

For a young man in Haripur, Manto unlocked the door to a world of ‘unflinchingly true’ language and stories.

Manto’s stories are a concave lens which sees through societal hypocrisy and reveals us to ourselves.

Even among his envious contemporaries, Manto was recognised as a uniquely talented writer.

Manto's writing was enthusiastically welcomed by those readers who had an interest in the process of change.

Writers, intellectuals pay tribute to the satirical writer on his centennial.

Manto's story was edited per official policy to present Hindu-Muslim riots as a one-way affair, Muslims as victims.

Manto’s writing had a history of attracting the wrath of authorities for its stinging moral and political comment.