Amjad Islam dies: According to sources, renowned poet and dramatist Amjad Islam Amjad passed away on Friday in Lahore at the age of 78 after suffering a heart arrest.
No funeral arrangements have been made public yet.
Over the course of a 50-year career, Amjad wrote more than 40 books and won numerous accolades for both his literary work and television screenwriting, including the Pride of Performance and the Sitara-e-Imtiaz.
He graduated from Punjab University with a Masters of Arts in Urdu literature. He began his career teaching at the Government M.A.O. College in Lahore. From 1975 to 1979, he served as the director of Pakistan Television Corporation.
He is most known for his dramas “Waris,” “Dehleez,” “Samandar,” “Raat,” “Waqt,” and “Apnay Loug.”
“Today, a magnificent period of Urdu literature has come to an end with the death of renowned poet and philosopher Amjad Islam Amjad,” the prime minister Shehbaz Sharif wrote on Twitter.
His plays and writings helped raise a generation of thinkers. His poetry’s chorus will linger in our ears for a very long time. May Allah provide them a place in heaven.
Amjad Islam Amjad, our great writer, dramatist, and poet, has died away, tweeted President Arif Alvi.
“He had self-reported:
Should you ever think about me Holding hands on the waves of the avoiding breeze, glance at a star in the soft light of lunar evenings.
Shoaib Akhtar, a legendary cricketer, too lamented the loss, saying that “Urdu poetry & Pakistan have suffered a big loss today.”