Josh Maleeh Abadi has a versatile literary personality having various aspects like poetry, criticism, editing, and sketch writing etc especially his Urdu poem Josh made deep impacts. This was said by Fakhar Zaman, Chairman, Pakistan Academy of Letters on the occasion of the release of special issue of Quarterly "Adbiyat" on Josh Maleeh Ababi.
He further said that Josh worked in different forms of poetry and proved his muscles. He is also a great prose writer and as editor his status is also ranked high by the critics, adding that we have tried to compile a special issue on this unique literary personality as exclusive as possible and hoped that it will be a source of information for students of Urdu literature and will help increase understanding about Josh among Urdu readers.
Major writers included in this issue; Dr Farman Fateh Puri, Zafar Iqbal, Dr Nayyer Masood, Dr Gopi Chand Narang, Dr Saleem Akhter, Shamim Hanfi, Dr Khaleeq Anjum, Dr Muhammad Ali Siddiqui, Dr Ali Ahmed Fatmi, Jameel Yousaf, Dr Tahir Tonsvi, Safia Shamim Maleeh Abadi, Sahil Bilgrami, Dil Nawaz Dil, Dr Nisar Turabi, Dr Aalia Imam, Dr Hilal Naqvi, Farooq Khalid and others. A selection of Josh, poetry and prose is also part of this issue. Fakhar Zaman is the Chief Editor, Khalid Iqbal Yasir, is Managing Editor while Muhammad Asim Butt is the Editor of this special issue of "Adbiyat".-PR