Dunya News - Ahmad Faraz's 6th death anniversary today

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The sixth death anniversary of legend poet Ahmed Faraz is being observed today.


LAHORE (Dunya News) - The sixth death anniversary of progressive Urdu poet, Ahmed Faraz is being observed today.

He was considered one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the last century. Faraz is his pseudonym (takhallus); his real name was Syed Ahmad Shah. Ahmed Faraz died in Islamabad on August 25, 2008.

Ahmad Faraz was born in Kohat, Pakistan, to Syed Muhammad Shah Barq. Faraz holds a unique position as one of the best poets of current times, with a fine but simple style of writing. Ethnically a Hindko speaking Pashtoon, Ahmed Faraz studied Persian and Urdu at Peshawar University, where he later became a lecturer.

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