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Parveen Shakir
Poet
--: Biography of Parveen Shakir :--

 

Parveen Shakir was born on 24th November, 1952 in Karachi, Pakistan She was highly educated with two masters degrees, one in English literature and one in linguistics She also held a PhD and another masters degree in Bank Administration She was a teacher for nine years before she joined the Civil Service and worked in the Customs department In 1986 she was appointed the second secretary, CBR in Islamabad A number of books of her poetry have been published In chronological order, they are Khushboo (1976), Sad-barg (1980), Khud-kalaami (1990), Inkaar (1990) and Maah-e-Tamaam (1994) Her first book, Khushboo, won the Adamjee award Later she was awarded the Pride of Performance award, which is the highest award given by the Pakistan government On 26th December, 1994, on her way to work, her car collided with a truck and the world of modern Urdu poetry lost one of its brightest stars Parveen Shakir initially wrote under the pen-name of 'Beena' She considered Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi her 'ustad' and used to called him 'Ammujaan' She was married to Dr Nasir Ahmed but got divorced from him sometime before her untimely demise in 1994 They had one son - Murad Ali

 

 
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