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Language is a mysterious reality. Its pivotal point is sign or word. Sign contains abstraction. Writers use these signs for their indications, hints and suggestions. Through these signs speakers of various languages can reflect universe around them on the canvases of their minds. A poet, through his imagination based on these signs can foresee the world of possibilities. We can depict our aims through writing and speaking these signs. Poets and writers claim that their creative or literary works could be interpreted dimensionally. More over anyone by implying his or her mind can also interpret them in a different way. Associations of ideas are capable of visualizing things in parts and totality. If any theorist surpasses the real aims of writers and poets, it could be said he is not fair to his deeds. Various critics belong to the traditions of modernism and postmodernism do not judge fairly the texts under their studies.

“Afra Bukhari” is a distinguished Short story writer of our age, who in a subtle and delicate way, portrayed the true picture of human feelings and its nature. She is an ardent interpreter of human psyche and she really worked hard to analyze human mind and emotions, while expounding different situations of life, especially when it is in agony and distress. She never ceases her efforts to enumerate multiple traumas of life which our beleaguered society faces, daily or routinely. For this, she especially highlighted the very concerns of our downtrodden, lower class and their pathetic matters in which they are leading their lives from one generation to other. She rightly embarked on those parts of our society, which are vulnerable, the women and children. A number of stories are directly linked with this very cause and she masterly elaborated their problems, tragedies and our bitter behavior, towards them. We can witness a big division in her stories and that is, that sensitive, harmless and good nature people are being deceived, marginalized and suffered at the hands of cunning, shrewd and callous people. Afra has a unique blend of writing style and she tried to paraphrase human nature and its jumble thinking in a lucid, impressive way. She cannot be overlooked in any way.

Amjad Islam Amjad (4 August 1944…10 February 2023) is a well-known poet and Urdu playwright. His drama 'Waris' served as a milestone in Pakistani television's history. As a popular poet, there are several published anthologies to his credit. He also translated foreign poetry into Urdu, besides which he was also a renowned columnist. In this article, his personality and contribution to the literary world have been brought to light. The context of his drama 'Waris' has been explored, and this notion has been conveyed that the void left by his departure can never truly be filled.

Iqbal was a poet, philosopher and political leader. He is one of the leaders who brought Muslims out of despair and promised a bright future. He wanted such a modern Islamic state based on Islamic principles, in which Islam should be introduced in a modern way ,in short the problems of the present age and all the problems should be solved according to The Quran and The Sunna. If Iqbal's poetry and prose are studied in depth, we can clearly become acquainted with the features of Iqbal's modern Islamic State.

Dr. Qazi Abid is a well renowned Urdu critic. He was a pragmatic progressive and neo-Marxist. Like many other progressives he was not intellectually stagnant. His progressivism draws light from modernism and postmodernism rather than to oppose them. To him, to be progressive is to be enlightened and big-hearted. Instead of establishing novel theoretical discourse, he has practically applied all the new discourses to Urdu literature. For intellectual satisfaction, he had direct access to Western philosophies; and resultantly, his criticism doesn’t have any ambiguity and contradiction. He finds many similarities between modernism and postmodernism. Dr. Qazi has successfully applied discourses such as structuralism, post structuralism, post colonialism and neo colonialism, historiography and neo historiography to the texts of Urdu literature.

Farkhunda Bukhari's autobiography "Ye Bazi Ishq Ki Bazi Hai" is a book full of political and social contexts and debates in the 21st century. In the autobiography under discussion, the author describes the sufferings of Hindu Muslim riots and migration before the establishment of Pakistan in a painful way. The author becomes somewhat saddened by comparing the current social situation of Pakistan with the social and cultural life of her childhood. According to the author, the political and social structure of the country has been paralyzed due to the internal and external forces that have disrupted the democratic process due to the political instability of Pakistan and various periods of martial law. Political interests and military dictators have harmed the interests of the country for the sake of their personal interests in every era. This is the reason why the overall lack of educational resources in our country, ineffective planning, unemployment, kidnapping for ransom, terrorism, hyperinflation, social unrest, linguistic discrimination and regional prejudices have become the fate of Pakistan. Scribe has tried to present the analysis of these problems and events in a research and critical manner in the article under study.

Elegy is considered a lament for the departed souls, yet after the great incident of Karbala where HazratHussain and his clan was brutally martyered for the cause of upholding the truth, the elegy had advented with new meaningness and later on was associated with the lamenting and describing attributed of the matchless bravery of the Hussain and his companions. Urdu poetry has a long history of elegiac literature, and thousands of similes,metaphors and allusions have been evovled out of the Karbala discourse which are termed as elegiac allusions. These elegiac allusions have casted irrefutable and permanent impacts on Religious Urdu poetry. This article is a key attempt to explore these impacts. The elegiac allusions have broadened the discourse and scope of the religious poetry.

Khalid Fateh Muhammad is a well-known fiction writer, novelist and translator of current era. Eleven novels and seven Short story books of Khalid Fateh Muhammad has been published till now. He has earned a lot of fame. Khaleej is one of his best novels that is written in the context of fall of Dhaka. It is historic novel in which the writer has portrayed the reasons, background story and insidious activities of “Mukti Bahni”. Furthermore, he has unbiasedly presented efforts to crush the tricks and conspiracies of rebellions by Pak Army and the reactions of the natives. Following article describes the critical and research analysis of Khaleej. Style, Plot and characters of the novel are analyzed thoughtfully and artistically.

In Europe, towards the end of the 14th century, the downfall of the church and the emergence of modernity led to the significant mindset, which in literature is labeled as Modernism. This modernism was interpreted as enlightenment because it opposed the existence of God and tradition by considering humans as the sole source of all power and supremacy. Modernism trend which later developed as a movement; was based on humanism in which what humans believed was accepted and what they denied was rejected. The most important aspect of this movement was the deviation from religion and tradition, which leads to the denial of metaphysical interpretation. This denial directed the masses toward the agony of loneliness, mental suffering, and helplessness. So, when they express their emotions and feelings, it came out as grief, melancholy, and anguish. In literature, this anguish was expressed in a particular style of writing, innovative, unorthodox and in a unique style of writing were due to some alterations in writing techniques; rather than the matter and subject. These unorthodox techniques were the base of Modernism in literature. The trend of modernism in Urdu literature was introduced in the 1960s and it particularly influenced urdu poem the most. Modernism caused experiments on a large scale in the structures and techniques of urdu poems. New techniques were invented by establishing and modifying templates, due to which, the poems in this era are categorized as Jadeed Nazm. This literary movement was promoted by the members of Halqa Arbab e Zauq. The poems they construct were of thematic diversity and unique style. But under Modernism; due to philosophy, psych and mythological complications, the understanding of poems became more and more difficult. In addition, the structural arrangement of these poems was also different from the traditional structures. So, this new technique didn’t prove to be compatible and soon came to an end.

Syed Anees Shah Jillani had a unique style. He was a sketch writer in Urdu and Saraiki. He was a travel writer, a unique letter writer and compiler, that's why there were many qualities in his style. In his writing, Ghalib's humor, reasoning and logicality like Sir Syed and Hali, Shibli's enthusiastic style, Azad's style of writing and Abul Kalam's style of writing are found. It all sounds so strange, yet so true.

Narrative drives from Indo-European roots which mean "to tell" and "to know", some narratologies used the word Narrative parallel to “biology” and “sociology”, from this prospect narrative belongs to Human self and social self in dialectical position. It has many classical and modern proprieties such as time, space, sequence, delay, detours, digression. Modern and post-modern study of Narratives poetic which has transformation and self -regulations Narrative helps to elaborate the feminism in very broad aspect which shows the women as a mechanism that has no history and truth in male dominated society.

Except some basic principles, literary criticism is for the most part subjective. We can’t reject someone’s opinion we can only disagree. But this is an essential point of criticism that the tone of objections should also be decent. Dr. Tasadduq Hussain Khalid is the first poet, who regular adopted the free verse. Here his work on the kind of poetry called verse libra or free verse. He is the first regular poet of free verse, but why he is not the first outclass poet of free verse. The different well known critics have discussed on this issue. Here we are going to analysis those opinions. This meta criticism will show the standard of Urdu Criticism and critics as well as the creativity and contribution of Dr. Tassaduq Hussain Khalid. In this way we can overview our all literary critical asset. So it is a time to analysis the recent era in literary criticism, because such critical overviews will help to show the real pictures of art and will also support to build a new standard and rebuild some new rules of criticism.

Sheikh Ghulam Hamadani Mus’hafi (1160/1747 to 1240/1824) is famous Urdu Poet and Tazkira writer. He wrote nine collections of his poetry (Diwan) along with four Tazkiras. The collected workof his poetry has been edited and published four times during the period since 1967 to 2013.Editors of the these collected work of his poetry used several manuscripts in their editing, which belongs to Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library Patna (Bihar, India), Banaras Hindu University Library Varanasi (UP, India), Tagore Library Lucknow University (UP, India) and Punjab University Library Lahore (Pakistan).Despite of this, a rare manuscripts of 6thDiwan of Mus’hafi is lying notice less in possession of Punjab University Library Lahore (Pakistan). No one yet wrote about this rare manuscript and even used it in the editing of the poetic works of Mus’hafi. This manuscript belongs to Shirani Collection of Punjab University Library, Lahore. It is incomplete but has an important position among the manuscripts of Mus’hafi’s poetical works, because it belongs to the nearest era of the reign of Mus’hafi. The particulars of said manuscript is described in this article. The writer of this article clarified the merits of this manuscript in his detailed study. This research article which is written in the language and subject of manuscript ology. Typical Urdu terminology of manuscript studies is used in this article which is rare to read now a days.