not only Jamshed ..but kamran Mirza and Shauky series ...my favourite is shauky series...
if i am not mistaken..i have read atlest ...700+ novels of ishtiaq ahmed...first read ....when i was even not in class 1....inspector jamshed....+ inspector kamran joint venture ..."Jamshed par Case".....where Jairal ...the famous villan of his novels...trapped inspector Jamshed ..in a murder of some person...his special card is cancelled by the president...and he had to hide himself..very intresting novel....Oh good old memories....:)
Arthur Conan Doyle was a different class. I do not know if it is appropriate to compare him with Ibn-e-Safi. Ibn-e-Safi created his own style. He also admitted that he learned from many western writers. I would look at Arthur as “the” pioneer of pure spy stories. Ibn-e-Safi evolved the class by adding many more facades to it. I wish there was a serious, educated producer/director to consider Ibn-e-Safi’s work. I would love to see someone from India/Pakistan to make movies on Ibn-e-Safi’s work. If done properly, there would be no stopping of such movies.
My personal favorite is Jasoosi Duniya. I have contributed my share at wikipedia:
there is no way you guys are comparing ibn whatever..to Mr conan doyle...i read the jasoosi series and the others..there would be no way these books could hold a light to the sherlock holmes series...
They were good yes...but i doubt if i would read them again...test....how many of his stories do i remember....none!!!
How many sherlock episodes can you recall? The hound of the baskervilles!
Mazhar Kaleem and other copy cats should be ashamed of writing on Ibn-e-Safi's characters so shamelessly! Mazhar Kaleem should have stuck with "Aangloo Baangloo" and "Chaloosak Maloosak" type of stories for books. I would respect him more. He can never gain respect by serious readers of mystery and suspence!
Colonel Faridi ..master pieces are enough ..but i like the most "Purhaul Sannatta" ....
and all novels where ...Sing Hee(dont know exact chinese spellings) comes....
Each and every novel of Colonel Faridi is a masterpiece. I feel Ibn-e-Safi was able to create more suspence/jasoosi stories in Jasoosi Dunya than Imran Series. Imran's earlier novels were good but later they mostly became adventure and less "jasoosi".
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