Poet & writer
Mustansar Hussain Tarar
ਮੁਸਤਨਸਰ ਹੁਸੈਨ ਤਾਰੜمستنصر حسین تارڑ
Lahore novelist and travel writer, author of Bahao, a novel set in the dying world of the Indus cities.
Tarar is one of the most widely read writers in Urdu, known for his travel books about the mountains of the north and for novels such as Bahao, set among the last people of a drying Indus civilisation, and Raakh, about Partition and its aftermath. Many Pakistanis remember him as the host of a much-loved morning television show.