Times of Islamabad

Death anniversaries of Parveen Shakir, Munir Niazi observed today

Death anniversaries of Parveen Shakir, Munir Niazi observed today

ISLAMABAD – Death anniversary of eminent Urdu poetess Parveen Shakir wasobserved on Wednesday.

Parveen Shakir was born in 1952 and started writing at very early age withher tag name Beena.

It was 1977 when she got published her first collection of poetry called‘Khusbu’ which earned a huge fame.

Her famous poetry books also include Mah-e-Tamam “Sad-Barg “, Khud’kalaami”and Inkar.

She died on this day in a car accident in Islamabad in 1994.

The death anniversary of Urdu and Punjabi poet Munir Niazi was alsoobserved on Wednesday.

The Urdu poetry work of Munir Niazi include “Taiz Hawa aur Tanha Phool”,“Jungle main Dhanak” and “Mah-e-Munir” while he published three of hisworks in Punjabi namely “Safar di Raat”, “Char Chup Cheezan”and “RastaDasan Walay Teray.”

He died on this day in Lahore in 2006.