Residents in Azad Kashmir on Friday welcomed the ceasefire agreement between Pakistan and India, but were unsure that it would hold long enough.
MUZAFFARABAD: Having borne the brunt of hostilities across the Line of Control (LoC) for years together, residents in Azad Kashmir on Friday welcomed the ceasefire agreement between Pakistan and India, but were unsure that it would hold long enough.
“Thank God, they have realised the harrowing consequences of shelling…and have resolved to maintain truce across this line that has divided Kashmiris from each other,”said Gul Zareen, a 50-year-old resident of Bugna village, in Neelum valley.
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Pity, it is loss that tells us the worth of things. Indubitably, the loss procreated by death reveals, though dreadfully, unto us the truest worth of things. His eminence as a poet rested not just on a single ghazal the matla [opening verse] of which reads Wo hamsafar tha, magar uss se hamnawaayi na thi [he was a fellow traveller, yet lacked amity] and used as the soundtrack for the television drama serial Hamsafar but on practising consistently a sort of neo-classicism all along his literary career in his own way.
This is something that might be taken as part of a serious effort to pin down the real worth of Naseer Turabi’s works of poetry, on poetics and lexicography in the moment we mourn him.