ON January 18, 2010 writer and intellectual Ghulam Rabbani Agro died at the age of 76 due to cardiac arrest. He was the writer of many books in Sindhi among which Jahra Gul Gulab Ja, Sindh Ja Bar Bahr Pahar and Aab-i-Hayat are well-known.

He had completed another book, Marho Shar Bhambhoor Ja, which is being published by the Sindhi Adabi Board.
Agro started his writing career as a short story writer in the early 1950s. His stories were translated and published in different languages including English, German, Hindi, Marathi and even Gujrati.

He is considered to be one of the three pioneers of the Sindhi short stories, the other two being Jamal Abro and Sheikh Hafeez.

His stories have been included in the syllabus for Masters degree in Sindhi and the CSS examination.
Agro also wrote many articles which were published in different books and magazines including the quarterly Mehran.

He led a delegation of Pakistani writers to China while he was chairman of the Pakistan Academy of Letters, and also led a Pakistani writers' delegation to Bangladesh.

Besides this he visited India and Iran as head of a Pakistani writers' delegation.

During his tenure first as secretary and later as chairman of the Sindhi Adabi Board, more than 300 books were published on subjects such as history, linguistics, literature and poetry, including rare Persian manuscripts.
He spent nearly 40 years of his life with the Sindhi Adabi Board which was established for the promotion of history,
culture, languages and literature of Sindh.

He also reprinted the Persian translation of the Holy Quran of the Makhdoom Nooh of Hala. This is considered to be the first translation of the Quran in the Indian subcontinent; it is 200 years older than the translation by Shah Waliullah Dehlvi.

During his lifetime he was appointed a member of the Federal Public Service Commission, chairman of the Sindhi Adabi Board, director of the Institute of Historical and Research Commission and director of the Urdu Science Board, Lahore.

He was appointed first pro-vice chancellor of Sindh University when Shaikh Ayaz was its vice-chancellor.
In recognition of his services to literature the president of Pakistan awarded him the Tamgah-i-Imtiaz.