In the 1970s, a book came out in Pakistan that reached cult status in the country of its origin as well as the country across the border. Urdu: The Final Book was authored by Ibn-e Insha, the pseudonym adopted by Pakistani writer Sher Muhammad Khan, who died in 1978.
Urdu: The Final Book is a send-up of the Pakistani textbooks then in use. It has as its preface an impressive Facsimile of Confirmation of Non-Approval issued, ostensibly, by the West Pakistan Text-Book Board. Khan mocks the ponderous prose of bureaucracy with dulcet brilliance:
