KARACHI: Urdu poetry has often been accused of being too limited and narrowly focussed on a few themes such as love and beauty of the sweetheart. Urdu poetry, especially written by poets of ...

Pakistani community members recently organised a programme to celebrate Urdu poetry in connection with the Pakistan National Day celebrations at Al Banush Club in Mesaieed. Prominent members of ...

This is a selection of Urdu poems of the renowned Pakistani ... translated into English by Taufiq Rafat, one of Pakistan’s premier English language poets. Bulleh Shah belonged to the oral ...

it is apt to explore the works of an eminent Pakistani poet who has not only incorporated the ingenuity of the famed Urdu ghazals into his poem, but has, through his spirited foray into poetry ...

Urdu poetry has a wide range of forms. The masnavi ... Nowadays, on the subcontinent of India and Pakistan, the mushaira has changed somewhat but is still as vibrant and intellectually stimulating as ...

In Urdu ghazal I love Mir, Ghalib and Nasir Kazimi. “Kazimi’s poetry has elements of pathos and sorrow. In Pakistan, the poets and intellectuals who were influenced by great maestros of Urdu ...

With time differences have grown to the point that we can say that Urdu poetry in Pakistan is completely different from that in India,” he said. Being the purist that he is, Amjad once again ...

In his opinion Faiq’s verse is like a fresh and fragrant gust of wind in the realm of Urdu poetry that serves to distinguish him amongst his contemporaries. At the same time Rao Manzar Hayat ...

Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

After Pakistan adopted Urdu as its national language ... an engineer and businessman who was a lifelong lover of music set to Urdu poetry and had just begun learning the script at age 53.