Bend / Central Oregon News, Sports, Business, Weather, Entertainment, Classifieds and Local & State Headlines | The Bulletin

Use Advanced Search to filter by date and category. *keyword is required in search field.
start date (MM-DD-YYYY):
 -  - 
end date (MM-DD-YYYY):
 -  - 
category:
Archive Home > 2008 > September > 02 > Ahmed Faraz, 77, was outspoken Urdu poet

Ahmed Faraz, 77, was outspoken Urdu poet

By Haresh Pandya / The Bulletin
September 2, 2008

The revolutionary Pakistani poet Ahmed Faraz, whose name is synonymous in South Asia with modern Urdu poetry, died Aug. 25 in Islamabad. He was 77.

The cause was kidney failure, said his son Shibli Faraz.

He was earlier reported to have died while being treated in a Chicago hospital after a fall....

Read complete article

Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.