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Ahmad Faraz (1931 - 2008) hailed from a Hindko speaking respectable family of Kohat (Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan).  His family were descendants of  ''Haji Bahadar" a famous saint of Kohat.  Early in his life, his family moved to Peshawar. His father, Syed Mohammad Shah Barq, was also a poet. 

Ahmad Faraz studied at Peshawar Model School and later completed his Masters degree in Persian and another M.A. degree in Urdu from Peshawar University and became a lecturer at Peshawar University. 



Ahmad Faraz is one of the top ten Urdu poets of the modern era, counting the modern era from the 1900s onwards . . .  Dareechah web site is proud to present some video recitations of poems by Faraz himself as well as by others.

The first video is probably from the early 1990s and shows Faraz reciting his poem Ae Meray Saaray Logo which was a protest against repeated imposition of Martial Law in Pakistan and was especially directed against the 1977 Martial Law of General Ziaul Haq . . .