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Biography Of Faiz

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Date of Birth: February 13th, 1911 Place: Sialkot (Punjab) Pakistan Faiz’s mother was Sultan Fatima. Faiz’s father died in Sialkot in 1913. Faiz’s father was a learned man and enjoyed the company of well-known literary persons. Wrote the biography of Amir Abdur Rehman. Faiz was therefore, born in a respectable and literary environment and was a very promising student with a religious background.

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Biography Of Josh Malihabadi

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Josh Malihabadi was born as Shabbir Hasan Khan on 5th December, 1898 at Malihabad. He did his senior Cambridge from St. Peter’s College, Agra in 1914. In 1918, he spent about six months at Shantiniketan. He studied Arabic and Persian. Due to the death of his father, Bashir Ahmed Khan, in 1916, Josh was unable to avail of a college education. In 1925, Josh started work at the Osmania University…

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Sahir Ludhianvi

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1921: Abdul Hayie (later known by his takhallus ‘Sahir Ludhianvi’) is born to a Jagirdar family in Ludhiana, Punjab. He has several step-mothers, but he is the only child of his father who is one big *aiyaash*. 1934: He is in his early teens when his mother takes the bold step of getting away from that man, forfeiting all claims to the financial assets. Dad sues for child-custody and loses.

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Qateel Shifai

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Qateel Shifai was born on 24th December, 1919. His actual name is Aurangzeb Khan. Qateel Shifai is his nom de plume, the pen-name under which he is known in the world of Urdu poetry. “Qateel” is his “takhallus” and “Shifai” is in honour of his ustaad Hakim Mohammed ‘Shifa’ whom he considered his mentor. His father’s death at an early age, forced Qateel to quit his education and start his own…

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Parveen Shakir

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Parveen Shakir was born on 24th November, 1952 in Karachi, Pakistan. She was highly educated with two masters degrees, one in English literature and one in linguistics. She also held a Ph.D and another masters degree in Bank Administration. She was a teacher for nine years before she joined the Civil Service and worked in the Customs department. In 1986 she was appointed the second secretary…

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