At the Asia Society's Asia Blog Jeff Tompkins has a brief Interview: Translator Gives Urdu Literary Classic 'Basti' a Passport Into English, as Frances Pritchett answers some questions about translating Intizar Husain's Basti, which recently came out in a NYRB Classics edition; see their publicity page or get your copy from Amazon.com.
(I have a copy, and should be getting to it early in the new year.)
(I have a copy, and should be getting to it early in the new year.)