No literary function was held here to remember Ahmed Faraz on his third death anniversary in his native province where his brother is the governor nowadays.
The famous Urdu poet Syed Ahmad Shah from Kohat, commonly known as Ahmad Faraz, died in Islamabad where he was laid to rest in Sector H-8 on August 25 three years ago. It could be due to Ramazan that no literary organisation held any event to observe his death anniversary in Peshawar or elsewhere.
Ahmad Faraz’s brother Syed Masood Kausar is a PPP leader and governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Faraz studied in Edwardes College Peshawar and then did his master’s in Urdu and Persian from the University of Peshawar.
He spent early days of his life in his hometown Kohat, but later moved to Peshawar and spent most of his time in the company of noted poets Farigh Bukhari, Raza Hamdani, Khatir Ghaznavi and Mohsin Ihsan.
The Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) has renamed Highland Chowk as Ahmed Faraz Chowk in the city where he lived for years.
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