Ishtiaq Ahmad is a fiction writer from Pakistan famous for his spy, detective novels in the Urdu, and is the author of the highest number of novels (his 773rd novel is published by Atlantis Publications in April 2011) by any author in any language throughout the world. He started his career by writing short stories for children and then wrote his first novel in 1973. He was at his peak of popularity in the '70s to '90s due to his Inspector Jamshed series, Inspector Kamran Mirza series, and Shoki series. As of 2011 he is editor of the Urdu magazine, Bachon ka islam and is writing novels for Atlantis Publications, Karachi.