Character sketch writing is that genre of Urdu literature which highlights few aspects of life of a personality.A character sketch writer puts these traits together and tries to sketch someone's personality with such suitable words that the person appears with face, height,complete stature and personality traits in the eyes of the   reader.

Urdu literature is enriched with many good character sketches of significant personalities.Khwaja Hasan Nizami is one of those character sketch writers. Khwaja sb Has written numerous character sketches and pen portraits.He can be regarded as the pioneer of pen portrait in Urdu literature.Khwaja sb has penned sketches of his contemporaries as well as personalities from the past. Although, most of his sketches don't fulfil the standards of character sketch writing yet his efforts in the genre of Urdu literature can not be undermined.