• Silver Lotus Awardee - Best Lyrics - Ijaazat - 1988, Lekin - 1991 (all in Hindi).
• Received Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002 for Dhuan (Short stories) in Urdu language.
• Received Padma Bhushan in 2004.

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