Mumtaz Mufti started writing Urdu short stories while working as a school teacher before partition.
Abbas was considered a leading light of the Urdu short story.
His stories "Garm Kot" and "Lajvanti" are considered among the masterpieces of Urdu short story.
Some of his stories included in collection of his short stories 'MAFIA' are considered masterpieces of Urdu stories.
In eighth grade, his Urdu story Hindostan: Jannat Nishan was published in the school's printed magazine.
The book is a collection of Urdu short stories, first published in the 1930s, and then banned in 1933.
Popularly known as "Ainee Apa" among her friends and admirers, she was the daughter of writer and pioneers of Urdu short story writing Sajjad Haidar Yildarim (1880-1943).
Although Yousufi has a good number of Urdu short stories; both in post modern and plain traditional style, yet the matter is not sufficient enough to be presented in the form of a book.
The Urdu short story gained momentum with the phenomenal publication of Angare, a collection of many writers towards the end of the life of Premchand.
Urdu short stories have dealt with a wide range of the dimensions of life, but the most famous stories concern the trauma of the partition of the sub-continent and the violence generated out of it.