Photograph: M.U. Memon.

Asad Muhammad Khan was born in Bhopal, India, in 1932. He now lives in Karachi, Pakistan. He has written a number of television plays and published five collections of short stories to date. The Harvest of Anger and Other Stories, a selection of his short stories in English translation, was published by Oxford University Press (Karachi) in 2002 as part of its Pakistan Writers Series.