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August 25, 2008
Ahmad Faraz, Pakistani poet (born 1931)
Ahmad Faraz
Syed Ahmad Shah Faraz, better known by his pen name Ahmad Faraz, was a Pakistani Urdu poet, scriptwriter and became the founding director general of Pakistan Academy of Letters. He wrote his poetry under the pseudonym Faraz. He criticised military rule and coup d'état in the country and was displaced by the military dictators.