[1][2][3] He has published three novels and two collections of short stories along with a number of books translated from English into Urdu and vice versa.

[4][5][6] Butt was born into a muslim literary family of ethnic Kashmiri descent, long settled in Punjab.

[32][33] Asim's novel Natamaam ناتمام has won UBL Literary Excellence Award for 2015.

[34] Asim's book "Borkhese Kahanian" (بورخیس کہانیاں) (Urdu translation of short stories of Jorge Luis Borges) was short listed for the UBL Literary Excellence Award for 2019.

[36] A detailed research thesis based on the critical analysis of three modern Urdu novelists including Butt, by Robina Sultan, published with the title "Teen Nai Novel Nigar" by Dastaaveez Matbuaat, Lahore, Pakistan in 2012.