Saturday, 12 May 2012

Tributes paid to greatest writer Manto

ISLAMABAD, May 11: Though Saadat Hasan Manto was the greatest writer of Pakistan, he not only died in a miserable condition but also his family could not dare to fix an ‘epitaph’ on his grave according to his will due to pressure from religious clerics.

As a result, today no one knows where the grave of Manto is at the Miani Sahab graveyard in Lahore.

This was stated by speakers at a seminar organised by the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) on Manto’s birth centenary here on

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