death_date children pseudonym nationality ethnicity birth_date period genre education alma_mater death_place influenced influences imagesize image citizenship name occupation caption birth_place awards movement subject article_title birth_name
25 august 2008 saadi , shibli faraz and sarmad faraz faraz pakistani pashtun 12 january 1931 1950 -- 2008 urdu ghazal ma urdu , persian peshawar university islamabad , islamabad capital territory , pakistan urdu poetry ghalib , faiz ahmad faiz 200px ahmadfaraz1.jpg pakistani ahmed faraz '' ' احمد فراز '' ' urdu poet , lecturer ahmad faraz , toronto 2005 kohat , nwfp , british india hilal-e-imtiaz sitara-i-imtiaz nigar awards progressive writers movement/democratic movement romance , resistance ahmad faraz
 syed ahmad shah ali
ahmad faraz

ahmed faraz -lrb- , born syed ahmed shah -lrb- -rrb- on 12 january 1931 in kohat , died 25 august 2008 -rrb- was a pakistani urdu poet .
he was acclaimed one of the modern urdu poets of the last century .
` faraz ' is his pen name , -lrb- in urdu `` takhalus '' -rrb- .
he died in islamabad on 25 august 2008 .
he was awarded hilal-e-imtiaz , sitara-i-imtiaz and after his death hilal-e-pakistan by the government .
