The event under way at the Arts Council. White Star
KARACHI: The Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi on Thursday evening held an event to pay tribute to scholar Dr Shakeel-ur-Rehman Farooqui, who died of coronavirus on March 15.
Dr Farooqui was associate professor at the department of genetics, University of Karachi.
Shakil Khan was the moderator of the programme. He said Dr Farooqui loved the University of Karachi (KU). He was there until he breathed his last and is buried in the KU graveyard. In the latter part of his life, his fondness for literature, which may have been subdued because of teaching genetics for a long time, came to the fore.
Ambar’s poetry book launched
June 29, 2021
Rawalpindi: An unbelievable event of poetry and moving speeches was held with the launch of Ambreen Haseeb Ambar’s first poetry collection. Writers, intellectuals, poets, and other guests attended the launch presided over by eminent poet Dr. Nisar Turabi.
The launching ceremony of the book titled, ‘Shaam Phir Se Mehkay Gee’ took place at Faiz-ul-Islam Complex, Murree Road. A literary and cultural organization Harf Academy organised the event.
The poetry book launch went off with a bang. There was so much thrill and enthusiasm in the ceremony as every person awaited the introductory remarks by Dr. Nisar Turabi, a well-known poet, who introduced Col. Syed Maqbool Hussain, the event organiser and chair of the literary and cultural organization Harf Academy.
‘Literature imperative for progress’
April 23, 2021
Islamabad : No society can progress in the right direction without knowledge and literature, said federal information technology secretary Shoaib Siddiqui on Thursday.
He was speaking to Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) Chairman Dr. Yousuf Khushk during a visit to the PAL premises here. They discussed issues of mutual interest. The PAL chairman said the academy was working on a solid foundation for the promotion of literature and the welfare of writers.
He briefed the visitor about the activities under the PAL and future plans. Dr Yousuf said information technology was the need of the hour and no sector could progress without it. With the help of IT in modern times, we can run the PAL along modern lines, he said.
On the subtleties of the art of interviewing
Karachi
February 28, 2021
Having a degree from a university is by no means a necessity to engage in an intellectual discourse, and likewise, private reading, keen observation and craving to learn can more than compensate for not having attained formal education from an institute.
Veteran journalist Akhtar Saeedi, whose collection of interviews was launched at the Arts Council on Thursday night, is one such person who must know more about Urdu literature than many literature graduates.
This surmise can be confirmed by the interviews of literary personalities he did for the weekly magazines and literary pages of the Daily Jang newspaper, for which he worked for 36 years until his retirement on December 31, 2018.
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