Younus Javed is a popular playwright and short story writer. He has earned a name as a researcher with voluminous and valuable works on classical poet Nasikh and the history of Lahore-based literary club, the Halqa Arbab-e-Zauq. Among literary circles, he is also known as a poet and a short-story writer. Four collections of his short stories, mostly written in the format of social realism, have received wide appreciation.