Faraz, Ahmed

Faraz, Ahmed
▪ 2009
Syed Ahmad Shah 
      Pakistani poet

born Jan. 14, 1931, Nowshera, near Kohat, North West Frontier, British India [now in Pakistan]

died Aug. 25, 2008, Islamabad, Pak.
crafted more than a dozen volumes of contemporary Urdu poetry, in which he expressed passionate feelings about love and revolutionary protests against both capitalism and militarism. His much-admired ghazals (romantic lyric poetry set to music) were popular in India as well as in Pakistan. Faraz, the son of classical poet Agha Syed Muhammad Shah Bark Kohati, studied Persian and Urdu at Edwards College in Peshawar and published the verse collection Tanha Tanha while still a student. He earned a master's degree at Peshawar University, where he later taught language. A strong supporter of assassinated Pakistani leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Faraz was briefly imprisoned and spent several years in self-imposed exile in Europe and Canada. While in exile he wrote some of his best-loved poems, including Mahasra (“The Siege”) and Dekhtay Hain (“Let Us Gaze”). Faraz was the founding director of the Pakistan Academy of Letters and the recipient (2004) of the Hilal-e-Imtiaz, but he returned the award in 2006 in protest against Pres. Pervez Musharraf.

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