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Faiz Ahmed’s Death Anniversary Observed Today

Web Desk (November 20, 2018): The 34th death anniversary of influential intellectual, revolutionary poet and one of the most highly-regarded poets of the Urdu language Faiz Ahmed Faiz is being observed today on November, 20.

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Writer of these mesmerizing lines, most prolific poets of the 20th century, Faiz was known to have reached out, through his work, to the wealthy and to those less fortunate alike. Dubbed the ‘voice of a revolution’, he extended an asylum of sorts to the masses in a period where freedom of speech was crushed to a bare minimum.

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Faiz was born on 13 February 1911, in an academic family as his father was a barrister. He was a supporter of communism, because of which he had to face a lot of hurdles and difficulties.

Faiz Ahmad Faiz spent time behind the bars but never bowed down in front of dictators. He had to face an exile but he kept fighting for the people and continued his struggle, brilliant work. He also got Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.

Faiz s revolutionary poetry and life is a lesson for all as he never gave up. He was finally rewarded in 1972 when he was appointed as the Culture adviser at the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Education.He had to face a difficult time again in 1977 when Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto s government was dismissed. He left Pakistan in 1979 and took asylum in Lebanon. Faiz returned to Pakistan in 1982 and died in 1984, just after he got to know that he was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature.

Faiz was also awarded the highest civilian award Nishan-e-Imtiaz, whereas year 2011 was named as the year of Faiz by Pakistan People s Party (PPP).

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