Islamabad: 30th death anniversary is observing Pakistan’s legendary poet Parveen Shakir today.
Parveen Shakir started writing from a young age, she wrote both prose and poetry and also contributed in writing columns in Urdu newspaper, and fewer were written in English dailies.
In 1976, she published her first volume of poetry ” Khushboo”.
Her popular poetry work includes Sad-barg, Khud Kalami and Inkar which were compiled in the book Mah-e-Tamam.
She was awarded one of the highest honours of Pakistan, the Pride of Performance for her outstanding contributions in Literature.
Parveen Shakir died in a road accident in Islamabad in 1994 at age of forty-two.
