My acquaintance with Parveen Shakir's poetry began in late 1995 in Lahore, where I had gone to attend a media conference of journalists from South Asia. At the end of the conference, those of us ...

An accident at Faisal chowk on the Margalla Road in Islamabad on December 26, 1994, cost us the life of Pakistan’s foremost blunt feminine voice in Urdu poetry, Parveen Shakir. Inclement weather ...

Boxing Day (December 26) reminds us of two great modern Urdu poets, Munir Niazi (1928-2006) and Parveen Shakir (1952-1994) who left us on that day. If Niazi was the poet of melancholy and complete ...

Parveen Shakir contributed a unique and fresh style to Urdu poetry, earning her accolades and recognition. The government honoured her with the prestigious Pride of Performance award in ...

The 23rd death anniversary of eminent Urdu poetess Parveen Shakir was observed on Tuesday. Parveen Shakir was born in 1952 and started writing at very early age with her tag name Beena. It was 1977 ...

The complete works of Parveen Shakir were published under the title 'Mah-e-Tamam' (The Full Moon), while her final poetry collection, 'Kaf-e-Aina' (The Mirror's Edge), was posthumously released after ...

Parveen Shakir and Munir Niazi were both trendsetters in their own right, who introduced Urdu poetry to new subjects and perspectives. With the demise of copious luminary poets, we are yet to ...

The date 26 December marks the death anniversaries of two great poets, Munir Niazi and Parveen Shakir who left an everlasting impact on modern Urdu literature. Popular for her outspoken feminist ...

ISLAMABAD: Eminent urdu poetess Parveen Shakir's death anniversary observed on Thursday by literacy circles of the country. Born on November 24, 1952 in Karachi, she was a noted Urdu poetess ...

ISLAMABAD: An Urdu poet, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan Parveen Shakir was being remembered on her death anniversary on Wednesday. According to private news channel ...

The accident resulted in her death at only 42, a great loss to the Urdu poetry world. The road on which the accident took place is named after her as Parveen Shakir Road.

Google paid tribute to the late Pakistani poet Parveen Shakir with a doodle on Sunday to mark what would have been her 67th birthday. Parveen was born on November 24, 1952, in Karachi and passed ...