Mr. Ashraf Abid is a senior Punjabi Poet of surrounding village Mokal near Kanganpur. His documentary name is Muhammad Ashraf. He adopted “Ashraf Abid” as his literary name. Mr. Ashraf Abid was born on 4th May 1967 in the house of Late Haji Ghulam Muhammad and Zainab Bibi. Ashraf Abid adopted teaching profession. Mr. Ashraf Abid joined Punjab Education Department as a Primary School Teacher on 7th May 1986 at Government Primary School Mirzay Wala near Rao Khan Wala Markaz Mustafa Abad District Kasur. After doing a successful service of nearly 29 years, Mr. Ashraf Abid retired from his service as Primary School Teacher on 15th March 2015 from Government High School Mokal.
Mr. Ashraf Abid is founder and President of a Punjabi literary organization named Satluj Adb Preet Mokal. Mr. Ashraf Abid arranged a lot of successful meetings of poets under literary organization Satluj Adb Preet Mokal. A lot of renowned Punjabi Poets such as Mehboob Sarmad (Lyallpur), Mumtaz Baloch (Jhang), Syed Tahir Sheraz (Sargodha), Syed Sajjad Bukhari (Jhang), Irshad Sandhu (Kanganpur), Sabir Sodai (Sargodha), Kaifi Jee (Chichian), Amin Rahi (Sahiwal), Late Prof. Junaid Akram Lahore, Rai Muhammad Khan Nasir (Nankana Sahib), Ali Babar (Kanganpur) Ahsan Bajwa (Sheikhopura), Baba Abdul Satar (Sahiwal), Prof. Dr. Ibad Nabeel Shad (Kanganpur), Raza Hassan (Chunian) and Late Ustad Nazir Ahmad Zahid (Kanganpur) took part in the meetings of poets arranged by Satluj Adb Preet Mokal.
Mr. Ashraf Abid told that he took literary guidance from M. Y. Qaisar, Prof. Dr. Ibad Nabeel Shad and Late Ustad Nazir Ahmad Zahid. His Punjabi poetry book of Ghazals named “Phul Khusbo Di Yari” was published in November 1999 by Qamar Book Depo Malik Plaza Kabeer Street Urdu Bazar Lahore.
The poetry of Ashraf Abid has published in various renowned Punjabi Journals like Rvel Lahore , Swer International Lahore, Puncham and many more.
Mokal, Kasur, 55000
