He was also known for writing a popular children's TV play Ainak Wala Jin (1993) for Pakistan Television Corporation which was broadcast on PTV during the mid-1990s.

[1] Known by his pen name, A. Hameed, he was an Urdu short story writer, novelist, columnist, and children's author from Pakistan.

He started writing Urdu fiction at a time when Saadat Hasan Manto, Krishan Chander, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Balwant Singh, Quratulain Haider, Mumtaz Mufti, Ashfaq Ahmed, and Ismat Chughtai were the Urdu fiction writers at the forefront of Indo-Pakistan's Progressive Writers Movement.

His other novels include Baarish mein judai /بارش میں جُدائی, Jungle rotay hain/ جنگل روتے ہیں, Zard gulaab / زرد گلاب, Barfbaari ki Raat / برف باری کی رات.

Besides writing Urdu fiction, A. Hameed worked as a Feature Writer for Pakistan Radio, Lahore Studios from 1947 onward till his retirement.

In the 1980s, A. Hameed started writing a Sunday Urdu Column titled "Amritsar ki Yaadein" from the daily Nawai Waqt, Lahore that became very popular, was published in book form by Maqbool Sons Publishers Dyal Singh Mansion, Lahore and was later translated into English by Khalid Hassan.

A. Hameed was born in 1928 in Amritsar, British India to Kashmiri parents Khalifa Abdul Aziz and Sardaar Begum.

In the last years of World War II, A. Hameed left Amritsar after completing matriculation exam to join his brother-in-law Captain Mumtaz Malik in Ceylon where Capt.

سرفروش مجاہد Abdul Hameed died of cardiac disease, diabetes and kidney problems on 29 April 2011 at the age of 83.

[7][4][2] His funeral was attended by many fellow writers including Ata ul Haq Qasmi and the veteran journalist Mujibur Rehman Shami.