“Witty, elegaic and deliciously anarchic” – John le Carré “Mohammed Hanif’s Red Birds is a marvel, describing the interlinked fates of antagonists in a forgotten warscape – and the complicity of our own sheltered lives in remote conflicts”- Guardian, Summer Reading 2018, Pankaj Mish...
Hanif was born in Okara in 1964. He graduated from the Pakistan Air Force Academy, but left soon afterwards and became a journalist. He worked for Newsline, The Washington Post and the BBC and headed the BBC Urdu service in London for several years. He also graduated in Creative Writing ...