Biography of Ahmad Faraz


Syed Ahmad Shah (1931-2008), who procured the nom de plume of Faraz, came to be referred to as Ahmad Faraz as a writer. He was conceived at Nav Shahra in spite of the fact that his tribal place was Kohat. He learned at Islamia College, Kohat; Edwards College, Peshawar; and Peshawar University from where he got his degrees of M. A. in Urdu and M. A. in Persian. He started his vocation as a maker in Radio Pakistan. Afterward, he filled in as a teacher at Islamia College in Peshawar. Faraz objected to the military autocracy in Pakistan and conveyed what needs be energetically for which he was captured. On his discharge, he liked to live in a deliberate outcast in Europe and Canada for a long time. Back home, he took up senior places of regulatory nature as Resident Director of Pakistan National Center, and therefore the Director of Akademy Adabiyat Pakistan, Lok Wirsa and Chairperson of National Book Foundation. A generally regarded writer, Faraz got a few honors. A portion of these incorporate Adamji Award, Abaseen Award, Kamal-e-Fun Award, and Hilal-e-Imtiyaz grant, which he returned enlisting his disappointment with the nation's administration. He was beautified with Hilal-e-Pakistan grant by the Government of Pakistan after death. 

Faraz began composing verse while he was as yet a youthful understudy. He rose as a ghazal writer with his very own individual mark. Indeed, even while he drew upon the customary subjects of affection and sentiment, he additionally composed his age in his verse with every one of its loses hope and frustrations and created probably the best examples of opposition verse. He was a productive artist with a few compilations amazingly. These incorporate Tanha, Dard-e-Aashob, Janan, Shubkhoon, Merey Khwab Reza, Beaawara Gali Koochon Mein, Nabeena Shar Mein Aaeena, Pus Andaz Mausam, and Khwab-e-Gul Pareshan Hai. His interpretations of verse are incorporated into Sub Awazein Meri Hain. He additionally assembled a choice from the verse of Kunwar Mahinder Singh Bedi in Ai Ishq Junoon Pesha. His Kulliyat showed up with a comprehensive title of Shahr-e-Sukhan Aaraasta Hai. 

Ahmed Faraz conceived Syed Ahmed Shah on 12 January 1931 in Kohat, passed on 25 August 2008) was a Pakistani Urdu writer. He was broadly known as a standout amongst other current Urdu artists of the only remaining century. Faraz was his pseudonym, in Urdu takhalus. He passed on in Islamabad on 25 August 2008. He was granted Sitara-I-Imtiaz, Hilal-e-Imtiaz and after death the Hilal-e-Pakistan by the Government of Pakistan. 

Ahmad Faraz was conceived in Kohat, (at that point British India) to Syed Muhammad Shah Barq. His sibling is Syed Masood Kausar. He moved to Peshawar with his family. He contemplated in celebrated Edwardes College, Peshawar and got Masters in Urdu and Persian from Peshawar University. 

Amid his school life, the dynamic writers Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Ali Sardar Jafri were his closest companions, who inspired him and turned into his good examples. Ethnically a Pashtun Syed, Ahmad Faraz examined Persian and Urdu at the Peshawar University. He later turned into a teacher at the Peshawar University. 

Faraz passed on from kidney disappointment in a nearby Islamabad healing center on 25 August 2008. His burial service was hung on the night of 26th, by numerous admirers and government authorities at H-8 Graveyard, Islamabad, Pakistan. 

His folks asked him once to take in arithmetic from a class individual amid the mid year get-away. Be that as it may, he was feeble in arithmetic and geology, he didn't recollect maps and streets. 

He was from a good group of Syed, descendents of ''Haji Bahadar" a popular holy person of Kohat, he moved to Peshawar with whole family. Contemplated in celebrated Edwards College, Peshawar and after that did his Masters in Urdu and Persian from Peshawar University. 

Amid his time in school, Faiz Ahmad Faiz and Ali Sardar Jafri were the best dynamic artists, who awed him and turned into his good examples. 

Blunt about legislative issues, he went into deliberate outcast amid the Zia-ul-Haq period after he was captured for presenting certain ballads at a Mushaira reprimanding the military standard. He remained for a long time in Britain, Canada and Europe before coming back to Pakistan, where he was at first named Chairman Academy of Letters and later director of the Islamabad-based National Book Foundation for quite a long while. He has been granted with various national and global honors. He was granted the Hilal-e-Imtiaz in 2004, in acknowledgment of his abstract accomplishments. He restored the honor in 2006 subsequent to getting to be disappointed with the legislature and its approaches. "My cognizant won't excuse me on the off chance that I remained a quiet observer of the pitiful happenings around us. The minimum I can do is to tell the autocracy where it remains according to the concerned residents whose essential rights have been usurped. I am doing this by restoring the Hilal-e-Imtiaz (common) forthwith and decline to connect myself in any capacity with the regime..." an announcement issued by the writer. About his present compositions he says: "I now just compose when I am compelled to from within." Maintaining a convention