aaj ik aur baras biit gayā us ke baġhair
jis ke hote hue hote the zamāne mere
In 1930, Shahid Ahmed Dehlvi, the grandson of Urdu’s first novelist Deputy Nazir Ahmed and the son of Bashiruddin Ahmed (author of Waqiat-e-Dar-ul-Hukumat), launched a magazine named Saqi from Delhi. After the partition of India, it continued its publication from Karachi.