Shafqat Tanvir Mirza – known by many as STM (6 February 1932 – 20 November 2012) was a Pakistani writer and a journalist known for his activism for Punjabi culture and language.
[1] Belonging to a Rajput family that took the Mirza nobility title during the times of emperor Akbar, his ancestors belonged to Rajouri (now in Jammu and Kashmir, India), but Mirza himself was born in February 1932 the village of Domeli, in the Jhelum District (now in Punjab, Pakistan), where his father, a Range Officer in the Punjab Forest Department, was transferred.
[3] Mirza studied at schools in Chakwal, Khushab, Wazirabad, Attock, Bahawalnagar and at Gordon College, Rawalpindi.
[1] Mirza's earlier career centred on Rawalpindi, where he worked for the daily newspapers Tameer and Hilal, as well as at Radio Pakistan.
[2][1] Shafqat Tanvir Mirza was also active as an author, writing and translating a number of books.