Poets are destined to respond to the callings of new lands. Ashfaque Husain was such a poet who moved to Canada from Karachi where he runs a traveling agency. He writes under the pen name, Ashaque. He was born on 1^st January 1951 in Karachi. He did his elementary education from Jacob Line Government High School. Later, remaining a student of Karachi government college nazimabad, national college and islamia college he finished his M.A from Karachi university. He had been an employ of government college korangi,  and Karachi arts counsel. In 1980 he bid a good bye to his land and reached Canada where he inaugurated the urdu international  that had been published from 1982 to 1985. he wrote critical essays aswell. Ham Ajnabi Hain, Faiz Ek Jaiza, Faiz Ke Maghribi Hawaley are the collections of his creative works