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Faiz's work is widely considered the backbone of Pakistan’s literature

Ghalib had long been my unwavering muse, but then Faiz arrived, gently tapping on the door of my heart

LAHORE: A large number of people thronged the 6th Faiz Festival at Alhamra Art Centre that the City saw after two years. Lahorites seem to have a huge appetite for both fun and intellectual...

LAHORE: The 6th Faiz International Festival attracted a large number of visitors, including families, on its last ...

His killing adds another bloodstained chapter to the history of a country that's been held hostage by agents of hatred.

Bathinda: Indian screen legend Dilip Kumar was a fanboy of Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz, whose daughter, 79-year-old professor Salima Hashmi, recalls Yusuf Khan’s reciting her father’s Urdu couplets from memory whenever she rewinds a tape from Mumbai. Speaking to the Times of India from Lahore, she recalled Dilip Kumar’s 1989 visit to Karachi with his wife, Saira Banu, and brother, Ahsan Khan, for a charity event to raise money for the patients of thalassaemia. She said: “He called m...

Farooq Qaiser’s creations were larger than life in many ways | Guddu Film Archive We whiled away the hours chatting well past midnight, Farooq Qaiser and I, on the bus from Isfahan to Tehran. It was almost the last leg of the National College of Arts tour of Iran, with Afghanistan still to come. Farooq was among the 30 students who made the fascinating journey in that fateful March of 1971, all of us quite unaware of the horrifying saga unfolding in East Pakistan. He was studying textile desi...

Memories of my father Faiz Ahmed Faiz and our simple dal-chawal meals Broadcaster Moneeza Hashmi remembers the quiet, unpretentious meals of her childhood. Courtesy: Moneeza Hashmi I do not have clear memories of all of us, the whole Faiz family, sitting down at the dining table to eat together every day. Neither do I recall any particular occasion when we would all get together for a family meal. This was probably because my father, the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, was rarely home at mealtimes. M...

Mahir Ali I WISH I did not have to write today’s column. Not because of its content but because of the circumstances. The fact that thousands of people felt personally bereft when they learnt of I.A. Rehman’s demise on Monday testifies to the breadth and depth of his influence and reach. Pakistan has lost perhaps its brightest guiding light. One could possibly embellish that thought with the notion that the nation must bear that loss amid one of its darkest hours. But perhaps IAR, as he was...

For those interested in Pakistani politics and journalism, Pakistan Mein Sahafat Ki Mutabadil Tareekh [An Alternative History of Pakistani Journalism] is not an ordinary book. It has been produced by the Society for Alternative Media and Research (SAMAR) led by Mazhar Arif, a renowned advocate for public interest media; and authored by Dr Tauseef Ahmed Khan, an equally prominent academic and journalism educationist. The book is not a reproduction of facts alone, but goes beyond the remit of the...