Chiragh Talay is written by famous Urdu writer Mushtaq Ahmed Yousfi. Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi or Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi D.Litt (HC), SI, HI (Urdu: مشتاق احمد يوسفی) is an Urdu satirical and humor writer from Pakistan. Yousufi has also served as the head of several national and international governmental and financial institutions. He received Sitara-e-Imtiaz and Hilal-i-Imtiaz, the highest literary honors by the Government of Pakistan in 1999.Yousufi was born in a learned family of Tonk, Rajasthan on August 4, 1923. His father Abdul Karim Khan Yousufi was chairman of the Jaipur Municipality, and later Speaker of the Jaipur Legislative Assembly. Yousufi completed his early education in Rajputana and earned B.A. from Agra University while M.A. Philosophy and LL.B from Aligarh University. After partition of India his family migrated to Karachi, Pakistan.