Jamila Hashmi was an Urdu short story writer and novelist. Born in Amritsar, she had just finished her high school when the 1947 partition led to creation of Pakistan and her family moved to Lahore. She did her Intermediate and Bachelors as a private student. She then enrolled in Forman Christian College, Lahore and completed her Masters in English Literature in 1954. She started writing short stories while she was a Masters student at Forman Christian College and later published her novelette "Aatish e Raftaa" which is considered her masterpiece.