Hassan Jafar Zaidi, is a renowned historian and a contemporary of intellectual giants such as Dr.

Mubashir Hassan and Dr. Mehdi Hassan. He started writing as a political analyst for the weekly Nusrat in

1970 has since then continued writing for prominent Urdu and English newspapers like Daily Musawat

and Dawn. He served as Joint-Secretary of Halqa-i-Arbab-i-Zouq, Lahore (a renowned literary forum of

Pakistan) from 1974 to 1976 and has devoted his life to a multi-volume project of research on the

history

of Pakistan and Muslims. Twelve volumes on Political History of Pakistan and four volumes on Political

History of Muslims have already been published from this project while another fifteen volumes on

Muslim History and ten volumes on the history of sub-continent are under publication.