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 ...

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 ...

Her famous poetry books include Khushbu, Sad-Barg, Khud kalaami and Inkar. In 1976, Parveen Shakir published her first volume of poetry Khushbu to great acclaim.

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 ...

The 24th death anniversary of renowned poetess Parveen Shakir was observed on Wednesday. Born on November 24, 1952, in Karachi, Parveen Shakir was a self-made woman and adopted a purely eastern ...

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 ...

It may be recalled that Parveen Shakir, 42, was killed in a road accident here on December 26, in 1994. Her poetry was a breath of fresh air in Urdu poetry.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Take the case of women poets in Urdu. While Urdu poetry itself attracts enthusiastic mixed audiences across the Hindustani speaking regions, a curious gender divide trips up women poets.