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It is a famous saying that man is born free and everywhere he is in chains. It seems quite true because cultural identity is substantial in shaping the core of a human being. It is solely connected with one's nationality, religion, ethnicity and social class in which one lives. A group of human species is created through cultural identity and location. On the other hand we can differentiate them with others on the basis of their different culture and identity. If we look in the field of literature, a writer’s creative domain solely depends on which he/she lives or his/her nationality, social and religious practices and regional geographical boundaries. Saadat Hasan Manto was one of those writers whose works woven around the theme of location and identity. Born in a Muslim family of Ludhiana, British India, he settled in newly created Pakistan after the partition of Indian subcontinent. He was an acute Urdu writer of short-stories who realistically draws about the humanistic concerns at the time of partition. Manto lived in Bombay at the time of partition so his mind always longs for Bombay when he settled in Lahore, Pakistan. There always resides a question of culture, location and identity when he pens down in his short-stories about the traumatized life of innocent people across borders at the time of cataclysmic event of partition.