[1] He was the founding Chairman of the civil rights think tank Dialogue: Pakistan prior to the return of democracy in 2008.
[2] Educated in England, Italy, and Switzerland, Husain received his undergraduate Bachelor of Arts (Hons.)
His collection of verse, Desert Album, was published by Oxford University Press in 1997 to coincide with Pakistan's Golden Jubilee.
[6] According to Harris Khalique in Dawn, Husain has stated his aspiration to write verse that transcends time and space, rather than specifically Pakistani ethnic poetry.
[7] Khalique also notes that Husain's poetry frequently explores the interactions and contradictions between individualism and collectivism through the lens of human suffering.