Turabi was deeply emotional and wrote the poem after hearing the news while he was in his office.
[4] The poem's lyrics describe the writer's feelings regarding the separation of East Pakistan.
[citation needed] Woh Humsafar Tha was first sung as a ghazal by Abida Parvin in the late 1970s.
More recently, it was sung by Qurat-ul-Ain Balouch and used as the title song for the Urdu drama Humsafar.
Upon the release of the Humsafar drama, the ghazal Woh Humsafar Tha (sung by Quratul Ain Baloch) topped charts in Pakistan along with some other nations and captured a positive reviews from both critics.