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{{Infobox person
| name = Jamal-ud-din Abro
| image =
| caption = '''Jamal Abro'''
| birth_date = {{birth date|1924|05|02}}
| birth_place = Sangeen ([[Dadu District]]), [[Sindh]] [[Bombay Presidency]] [[British India]], [[Pakistan]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|06|30|1924|05|02}}
| death_place = [[Karachi]]
}}

'''Jamaluddin Abro''', ({{lang-sd|جمال الدين ابڙو}} - {{lang-ur| جمال الدین ابڑو }}) also known as '''Jamal Abro''' (2 May 1924 – 30 June 2004, [[Larkana]], [[Pakistan]]) was a [[Sindhi people|Sindhi]] writer. He was born in Sangi, a small village in [[Mehar Taluka]], then part of [[Dadu District]].

==Life==
Abro studied in a number of schools in Larkana and [[Hyderabad, Pakistan|Hyderabad]].{{Citation needed|date= August 2018}} He passed his [[matriculation]] from [[Bombay University]] in 1941 and later, became a student at the Bahauddin College in [[Junagadh]], [[Gujarat]]. In 1944 he went to [[Bengal]] and worked as a volunteer at relief camps for [[Bengal famine of 1943|famine affected areas]]. He also worked as an activist with the Khaksar Movement.

He took a degree in law in 1948 from Shahani Law College in Larkana and started working as a lawyer. Abro entered public service in 1952 and was posted as sub-judge in a number of places in Sindh. In the latter part of his career, he served as a judge in the labor court and as secretary to the [[Provincial Assembly of Sindh]]. He remained active on the literary front with the [[Sindhi Adabi Sangat]] (the organization of Sindhi writers with members all over Sindh).

==Work==

Abro's first short story was published in the year 1949 and was followed by a some others. ''Pishu Pasha'' aroused much debate and discussion, and this was the name given to the collection of nearly a dozen short-stories published in 1959. This nearly brought to a close Jamal Abro's work as a short story writer and was followed by a long gap of silence. An invitation to contribute a story for a university magazine being edited by [[Shaikh Ayaz]], (the leading [[Sindhi poet]] who was a close friend) led him to write his first story in fifteen years. This story focused on ''karokari'' (the ritual murder of a woman accused of immorality), written as only the author of "[[Pirani (short story)|Pirani]]" could have. It was followed by a story, written during the Writers' Conference, [[Islamabad]], in the days of General [[Zia ul-Haq]]'s [[Operation Fair Play|Martial Law]]; it describes the conference as a setting for an encounter with the angel of death.

==External links==
*https://web.archive.org/web/20150801155410/http://jamalabro.com/
*[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-22095376_ITMNotice Literary event in Abro's honour]
*[http://www.dawn.com/2004/07/01/top14.htm Obituary notice]
*[http://www.atsindh.com/induspak/Pirani.htm Text of ''Pirani'']
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100608061558/http://www.chowk.com/articles/4147

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