Muhammad Rehan, who uses Rehan Islam as his pen-name, is from Multan, Pakistan. After doing his M.Phil in English Literature, he studied Chinese Language, Culture, and Literature for two years in China. After his return, he worked as a Chinese Interpreter for some time. Presently, he is a lecturer in English at Govt. Graduate College, Dunyapur, Punjab, Pakistan. He has translated the stories of Chinese Nobel Laureate Mo Yan as Mo Yan Ki Kahaniyan (2023), and Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami’s South of the Border, West of the Sun as “Sarhad Kay Par Sooraj Say Paray” (2024) into Urdu under the banner of the Khalid Saeed Translation Society. He has also published Urdu translations of various English short stories in Urdu literary journals.