[6] She had five sisters, including Khadija Mastoor, and a younger brother, Khalid Ahmad, who also became a poet, playwright and newspaper columnist.

[1][2] An Urdu writer in his book wrote that no one knew Hajra was engaged with famous Urdu poet Sahir Ludhianvi but once in a literary gathering Ludhianvi pronounced a word wrongly, Hajra criticised him, he got angry and engagement was broken.

[2] Her early collections of short stories included Chirkey (1944), Hai Allah, and Chori Chuppay.

[6] She wrote several books of short stories in which she raised the social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.

Hajra Masroor was one of the torchbearer of the Progressive Writers' Movement as well as one of the pioneers of feminism in the subcontinent.