Faiz Centenary: Tina Sings Faiz. Again.

Posted on January 12, 2011
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Aisha Sarwari (Editor’s Note: 2011 marks Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s 100th birthday. We will be carrying a series of posts on Faiz Sahib to mark this centenary). The Faiz Foundation in collaboration with Bank Alfalah has just produced and will soon release a new CD of Tina SaniFaiz Ahmed Faiz singing . Along with Iqbal Bano […]

Faiz and Our National Identity

Posted on November 30, 2010
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Aisha Sarwari The Mard-e-Momin as a form of national identity is overrated. So is the concept of the collective morality and the religious honor that gets everyone keyed up, ready to take up arms against an aggressor. The biggest aggressor, after all, remains poverty, bread within. Real tyranny is that which the state practices against […]

Ahmed Faraz (1931-2008): Abb kay hum bichRay…

Posted on August 25, 2008
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The wit, wisdom and craft of Ahmad Faraz.

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