Asif Farrukhi

Asif Aslam Farrukhi آصف اسلم فرخی
Farrukhi at Habib University
Born	Asif Aslam Farrukhi 16 September 1959
Nationality	Pakistani
Occupation	Doctor, writer
Parent(s)	Aslam Farrukhi اسلم فرخی

Asif Aslam Farrukhi (Urdu: آصف اسلم فرخی‎), is a Pakistani writer and editor who is a physician by training, writer, translator. He has translated books from English into Urdu. He has edited and compiled anthologies of Pakistani writers. He also writes for Dawn and other newspapers, and periodicals on literature. He has received the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, the fourth highest civilian honour of Pakistan.

Farrukhi was educated first at Saint Patrick's High School, Karachi and later studied medicine at Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi and public health at Harvard University, United States. His professor and writer father and family background led him to contribute to literature in Pakistan.

Farrukhi has published six collections of short stories and two collections of literary criticisms. He also edits and publishes a litetary miscellany in Urdu called "Duniyazad". He is the son of renowned scholar Prof. Dr. Aslam Farrukhi.

From 1985 to 1993 he worked on the Faculty of the Aga Khan University under the supervision of the public health pioneer Prof. John H. Bryant.

In 2010, he collaborated with Oxford University Press, and the British Council to found the Karachi Literature Festival, and he is one of the founders of it.

From 1994 to 2014, Farrukhi was associated with UNICEF, Karachi, as the Health and Nutrition programme Officer.