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Ahmed Faraz (Urdu: احمد فراز)
(January 14, 1931 in Nowshera - Pakistan) is considered one of the greatest
modern Urdu poets of the last century and greatest living Urdu poet of
present times. Faraz is his 'takhallus', whereas his real name is Syed Ahmed
Shah.
Faraz, who has been compared with Mohammad Iqbal and Faiz Ahmed Faiz, holds
a unique position as one of the best poets of current times, with a fine but
simplistic style of writing, even common people can easily understand and
identify with. Ethnically a Pashto-speaking Pathan, Ahmed Faraz learned and
studied Persian and Urdu at the Peshawar University where he taught these
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