The Imran Series (Urdu عمران سیریز) is an Urdu spy novel series created by Pakistani writer Ibn-e-Safi. Ali Imran is the pivotal character, a comical secret agent who controls the Secret Service as X-2 but appears to work as a normal member of the Secret Service. Except for a handful of people, no one knows his status as the chief of the Service. The first book, Khaufnaak Imarat (The Terrifying Building), was published in October 1955. In early books Imran appears as a solo detective, but later in the ninth book, Dhuaen ki Tehreer (The Scribbling in Smoke), he is portrayed as the chief of Secret Service as X-2. Humour is the essence of Ibn-e-Safi books. In this series by Mr. Safi had written a total of 120 books.Although Ibn-e-Safi is the creator of Imran Series, the Series rose to fame and popularity due to the work of Mazhar Kaleem who incorporated new elements into it and wrote more than 600 novels. Source: Wikipedia (en)