Ahmed Faraz (1931-2008) – The Romantic Rebel

Re: # 4

Sorry! A correction in line 4 of my previous post:

Please read 'latter' in place of ''later' in line 4.

I came to know Faraz when during late 50's I resided at the Capital Cinema Flats on the Arbab Road, Peshawar. He used to come there with Taaha Khan. He was then working at the Radio Pakistan, Peshawar, and doing his M.A. in Urdu along with T. Khan and Syed Sagheer Ahmad, later a room-mate of mine. I had seen him last a couple of years ago at Islamabad in his office when he was the Chairman of the Book Foundation. What a lovable person he was. In fact he was a poet incarnate, himself a live 'ghazal'. May God bless him.

Btw, in spite of coming very close to him I never knew that he belonged to Nowshehra, with which city I have also deep links, being a progeny of Peer Sabaq. Can any body please tell me to which village he belonged?

Zaki brother you have done a wonderfull job. Faraz like people are born in centuries.

He was a frightfully honest person.

Too bad that they don't make many like him.

Nice job here Zaki Rahman Sahib. Faraz was a

Pakistani iconn ironically from a country of iconoclasts....

Ras

Nicely written article. It would have been wonderful if you could have gotten to write his poetry out in real Urdu script, instead of this Roman nonsense. Chowk should either provide the means, or else do it on their own.

It's a shame with gali, can be mistaken for an "obscenity", as easily as "street".

Zaki sahib: What an excellent article about an excellent individual!!

While we bemoan the 4 dictators that Pakistan has been plagued with, we too often forget the 3 outstanding poets (Habib Jalib, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and Ahmed Faraz) who have boldly stood up to dictatorship that Pakistan has also produced.