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Shabnam Shakeel remembered

By: Peerzada Salman KARACHI: Speakers lauded the services of poetess Shabnam Shakeel, who passed away on March 2, to the world of literature at a literary reference organised by the Academy of Letters, Sindh, and Tehzeeb Foundation at a hotel on Saturday. The event was presided over by poetess Zehra Nigah while Chairman of the […]


Shabnam Shakeel – a pillar of Urdu literature

ISLAMABAD, March 8: At the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL), poets and friends gathered on Friday to celebrate the memory of the poet Shabnam Shakeel, saying that “Urdu literature lost one of its pillars” with her death last Saturday, in Karachi. The poet Kishwar Naheed, former director-general of the Pakistan National Council of the Arts, […]


Shabnam Shakeel passes away

ISLAMABAD: Poet, writer, intellectual and academician, Shabnam Shakeel, died on Saturday in Karachi. Her funeral will be offered in H-11 graveyard on Sunday, in Islamabad. Shabnam Shakeel started writing at an early age and published her first book “Tanqeedi Mazameen” in 1965. Besides, she also published books “Shabzaad” (poetry collection) in 1987, “Izteraab” (poetry collection) […]