Orya Maqbool Jan

In 2018 he was banned from visiting Norway after a video of his was seen where he called for opposition to Ahmadis and Jewish Lobby. [12]

He is known as a supporter of Pakistan Army. After the appointment of General Qamar Javed Bajwa as Chief-of-Army Staff, Orya repeatedly claimed in his newspaper columns and Television appearances that Gen. Bajwa's appointment was directly ordered by Muhammad. He attributed this to a dream seen by a "spiritual person" Professor Shahzad from Karachi.[13] In an interview, he further stated that after revelation of his dream, the "spiritual" Prof. Shahzad was kidnaped by Pakistani intelligence agencies who brutally tortured him to the extent that he has since escaped to Dubai fearing life.[14]

During an interview, Orya Maqbool Jan revealed that he had a love-marriage with student at college where he used to teach.[15]

He has one son and two daughters. All his children, including both daughters, are foreign educated from UK and US.[16]

• Girdbād : Balocistān ke qabā'ilī pas manẓar men̲ likhā gayā ḍrāmah, Quetta : Zumurrud Publications, 1996, 308 p. A play on socio-cultural problems with particular reference to the Baloch tribes in Pakistan.
• Ḥarf-i rāz, Lahore : Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2005-2013, 1616 p. (in 5 volumes). Essays on deteriorating political conditions in Pakistan.
• Qāmat : shāʻirī, Lahore : Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2011, 144 p. Urdu poetry.
• Mujhe hai ḥukm-i az̲ān̲ : Z̤arb-i-muʼmin shāʼiʻ hone vāle kālam, Lahore : Ilm-o-Irfan Publishers, 2012, 336 p. Author's collected columns on various international political issues, published in weekly Z̤arb-i muʼmin Karachi during 2004-06.