Chalta Musafir

{{short description|1981 short story by Altaf Fatima}}

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| name = Chalta Musafir

| image = File:Chalta Musafir.jpg

| author = Altaf Fatima

| language = Urdu

| country = Pakistan

| published = 1981

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| caption = First edition

| title_orig = {{lang|ur|{{nq|چلتا مسافر}}}}

| orig_lang_code = ur

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| media_type = Print

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| genre = Historical fiction

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Chalta Musafir{{Cite web|url=https://jumhooripublications.com/chalta-musafir|title=Jumhoori Publications - Literature|website=jumhooripublications.com}} is an Urdu novel by Pakistani novelist and short story writer Altaf Fatima. First published in 1981, the novel explains the events of 1940s to 1970s, from the partition of the Indian subcontinent to the independence of Bangladesh.{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/701114245|title=Chalta Musafir (Book, worldcat)|via=World Cat|date=|oclc=701114245|access-date=2021-12-12}}{{cite web|url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/346206/altaf-fatima-an-era-in-herself/|title=Altaf Fatima — an era in herself|website=Daily Times|date=21 January 2019|access-date=|archive-date=12 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412091154/https://dailytimes.com.pk/346206/altaf-fatima-an-era-in-herself/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/amp/403941-the-fiction-of-altaf-fatima|title=The fiction of Altaf Fatima|website=The News International|date=2018-12-10|access-date=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1450217|title=IN MEMORIAM: THE ONE WHO DID NOT ASK|website=dawn.com|date=9 December 2018|access-date=}}