''For Hire'' is an

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language book written by Asif Hussain Shah, a Pakistani taxi driver, and published in 2010. The book is based on the author's daily experiences and thoughts of his passengers while traveling in the city. The writer points out issues and problems in the Pakistani society and describes how to cope with them. The book was published by

Ferozsons Ferozsons (Pvt) Limited (also Ferozsons Publishers) ( ur, ) is a Pakistani publishing company in Lahore, Pakistan. Established in 1894, it is Pakistan’s oldest publishing house. In 1954, the Ferozsons Business Group expanded when one of the ...

, consists of 120 pages and has 35 stories about the different experiences of the author.

About author

Asif Hussain Shah is a Pakistani cabbie from Rawalpindi Cantonment and drives the cab in

Islamabad Islamabad (; ur, , ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's ninth-most populous city, with a population of over 1.2 million people, and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capita ...

and

Rawalpindi Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...

. He has garnered attention by advertising his book via his Taxi, by printing "Search on Google, Asif Hussain Shah" on the side of the taxi.

References

Pakistani books 2010 non-fiction books Pakistani non-fiction books Urdu-language non-fiction literature Ferozsons books {{Pakistan-lit-stub