Born at home in Etawah (a town midway between Kanpur and Agra) in UP, the exact date of birth of Abrar Hasan is not known--from family history it is estimated to be a day in October 1936.  The government documents show July 10, 1938 as his date of birth. His father Anwarul Hasan (b. 1905) owned agricultural land around the village of Haswa (near Fatehpur/Kanpur) , but worked as a tax collector for the British India Government.  Abar Hasan’s mother, Athar Fatima, was a housewife.  Abrar Hasan’s two sisters Wasim Fatima and Qamar un Nisa were older than him, whereas his only brother Asrar Hasan was five years younger than him. Abrar Hasan received his early education at home and then at the Vernacular Middle School in Haswa.  He passed his Intermediate exam in 1955 from Islamia Inter College in Etawah--the same year he moved to the newly created Pakistan.  Abrar Hasan received his law education from the S.M. Law College in Karachi, and started his independent practice as Abrar Hasan a