'Badini's novels an asset to Balochi literature'.

ISLAMABAD -- Munir Badini's main reference is novel-writing, and Balochi novels are an asset to Balochi literature, writer Qazi Javed said at an online event with Kamal-i-Fun winning intellectual and novelist Munir Ahmad Badini on Thursday.

The event was organised by the Pakistan Academy of Letters.

Mr Javed said Mr Badini has enriched Balochi literature with his work.

'His fiction, plays, novels and travelogues are his dimensions which he has mastered well. He covers topics such as life, justice, good and evil, freedom and human conscience,' he said.

Mr Badini said his life has been in the service of knowledge and literature.

'The Kamal-i-Fun award has inspired me to write more. I have been attached to books since childhood and when I started writing, I wrote what I felt. I looked at life closely and expressed it in my own words,' he said.

PAL Chairman Dr Yousuf Khushk said he was the dignity of Pakistani literature.

'[His] more than 100 novels and other books are proof of this. Hardly any writer of any language has written so many novels. He has also written short stories and dramas. His three collections of short stories have been published. Most of his novels cover the social and cultural situation of Baloch [people] and Balochistan. He does not consider literature to...