Karachi: Information Secretary of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Women’s Wing Sindh, Sharmila Farooqui, paid rich tributes to celebrate poet and intellectual Faiz Ahmed Faiz on the occasion of his centenary birth celebrations.

She said that Faiz was not only a poet but also a man making history and deserved to be remembered for centuries.

Farooqui stated that it was Faiz who formed the first cultural policy of the PPP in the era of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.She said that Faiz was a great intellectual of his time.

Farooqui said that Faiz accepted imprisonment and suffered atrocities on him and his family during the dictatorial regimes but he did not compromise on his principles.
Source: The News
Date:2/13/2011