Mazhar ul Islam (Urdu: مظہرالاسلام) is a Pakistani short story writer and novelist.
His short stories weave together themes of love, pain, ecstasy, separation and death.
[1] He was born on 4 August in Wazirabad in northern Punjab [citation needed] where his father had then been posted by the Forestry Department.
[citation needed] Ul Islam's short stories reflect a new trend in Urdu prose.
[2] His works have been translated into Italian, Chinese, Japanese, English and several regional Pakistani languages[citation needed].