One of the leading poets of current times, Ahmed Faraz holds a unique position as one of the best poets of the present era, with a simple style of writing with which the common man can identify with. Ethnically a pathan, Ahmed Faraz studied Persian and Urdu at the Peshawar University. Outspoken about politics, he went into self-imposed exile during the Zia era after he was arrested after reciting certain poems at a mushaira. About his current writings, he says: "I now write only when I am forced to from the inside.".

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