He remained associated as a professor and chairman with the Department of Urdu, University of Karachi, for many years.
[2] Aslam Farrukhi was born on 23 October 1923 into a literary family of Lucknow, British India.
His ancestors had come to Lucknow from the nearby town Farrukhabad, hence the family name being used here is Farrukhi.
His PhD degree thesis was on the 19th century writer Muhammad Husain Azad which won the Adamjee Literary Award in 1965.
[1][3] His son is scholar Asif Farrukhi who also was a co-founder of Karachi Literature Festival.