Pakistan and its people have inherited rich cultural heritage of poetry from the pre-partition era. This heritage included great names in Urdu and Persian poetry, like Mirza Ghalib, Momim, Dard, Mir ...

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“Whose mischief created a world of beseechers? Each petitioner is seen wearing a garment of paper.” This line, by the famous Mughul poet Ghalib, refers to what he claimed to be an ancient Persian ...

LAHORE: Pakistanis are generally passionate about poetry but the walled city of Lahore recently buzzed with a different kind of mushaira when it hosted the second annual Pakistan Poetry Slam (PPS) ...

This line from Ghalib refers to what he claimed to be ancient Persian tradition of petitioners wearing paper before entering the courts to get justice. Indeed, for a country that has a low literacy ...

LAHORE: A session on ‘Pakistani Poetry in English’ was the best on the last day of the first International Conference on Pakistani Literature in English at the Kinnaird College on Thursday. The ...