PARVEEN SHAKIR
Urdu poetry is just incomplete without the poetry of Parveen Shakir (1952-1994). She can be considered as the best female poet in the history of Urdu literature. Parveen Shakir was born in Karachi on 24th November, 1952. She held MA degrees in English Literature and Linguistics from University of Karachi. She taught as a teacher at University of Karachi and Trinity College, USA for 9 years before joining the Pakistan Civil Service, where she served in the Customs department. In 1986, she was appointed Second Secretary, CBR in Islamabad. In 1991, she did her Masters in Public Administration at Harvard University in 1991.In her life, she printed five collections of her poetry that are Khushboo (1976), Sad-barg (1980), Khud-kalaami (1990), Inkaar (1990) and Maah-e-Tamaam (1994).
Her first book, Khushboo, won the Adamjee Award. Later she was awarded the Pride of Performance by the Government of Pakistan.
In 1994, she died in a car accident at age 42 in Islamabad. Pakistan will always remember her as a national heroine.
FAIZ AHMED FAIZ
Birth: February 13th, 1911Place: Sialkot Pakistan Faiz's mother was Sultan Fatima and father amir abdulr rehman. Started the Holy Quran at the age of four and in 1916. Was admitted to the Scotch Mission High School in 1921 in Class IV. Passed his Matriculation Examination in the 1st Division from Murray College,Passed his B.A. (Honours) in Arabic from the Government College, Lahore and then M.A. in English from the same College in 1932. Passed his M.A. in Arabic in the 1st Division, from Oriental College, Lahore.Employment: Lecturer in English at M. A. O. College, Amritsar in 1935 and then at Hailey College of Commerce, Lahore. Joined the Army as Captain in 1942 and worked in the department of Public Relations in Delhi. Was promoted to the rank of Major in 1943, and Lieut. Colonel in 1944. Resigned from The Army in 1947 and returned to Lahore, where, in 1959 appointed as Secretary, Pakistan Arts Council. Editorship of the monthly magazine Adabe-Latif from 1947 to 1958. Worked as Editor under the Progressive Papers Ltd, of the Pakistan Times, the Urdu newspaper Imroze and the weekly Lailo-Nihar. In the 1965 war between India & Pakistan he worked in an honorary capacity in the Department of Information.In March 9th, arrested under Safety Act and charged in the Rawalpindi Conspiracy case, four years and one month in the jails of Sargodha, Montgomery (now Sahiwal) Hyderabad and Karachi, was dead on April 2nd, 1955.
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