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Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi is an Urdu satirist and humour writer from Pakistan. Regarded by many as the best contemporary Urdu humorist, he was born into a learned family of Tonk, Rajasthan in 1923. He completed his early education in Rajputana and earned a BA from Agra University and an MA Philosophy and LLB from Aligarh Muslim University. After Partition his family migrated to Karachi. He was awarded the Quaid-i-Azam Memorial Medal for distinguished services in banking.