Famous Pakistani poet Ahmad Faraz is critically ill in a Chicago Hospital of Kidney Failure. He is 77.
He has been compared with Allama Iqbal and Faiz Ahmed Faiz and is considered as one of the best poets of current times.
May Allah help him.
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its a very sad news
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inna lilah....
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Well PTV had broadcasted the above news which it corrected after a few hours.
The latest is that he is still alive but in a grave condition.
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oh!!! Allah unhein sehat aur zindagi ata farmaye. Ameen.
PS can you change your subject line?
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^ Thanks, i have just corrected it, sorry for the confusion.
Allah Ahmed Faraz ko shifaa-e-kaamilah-O-Aajilah ataa farmaaye...
The news of his death is not confirmed.
Jang News is quoting his son and his doctor Tahir Rohail that he is critical but alive.
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Allah unko sehat ata farmaye ameen
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He is one of the greatest poets of Pakistan. May ALLAH bless him with health. Ameen.
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Not a avid follower of poetry but I remember having seen him once live on Geo and the mushahira he was in was electrifying when he came on.
^ Thanks, i have just corrected it, sorry for the confusion.
thanks for making the correction.
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He's one of the greatest poet alive after allama iqbal and faiz.he's a national icon. Allah unhein sehat dei.
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Marwa
thanks for sharing the pic here.
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Ahmed Faraz alive but in critical condition
Friday, July 18, 2008
By Azim M Mian
NEW YORK: Distinguished poet Ahmed Faraz, who is under intensive treatment at a hospital in the US, is in a critical but stable condition, a doctor attending to him said, dismissing the media reports about his death.
Talking to this scribe, Doctor Murtaza Arain said a team of eight doctors, including him, was treating Ahmad Faraz since July 7. Due to his complicated health problems, he is in intensive care unit of the hospital.
However, Surgeon Murtaza Arain said, “The poet is not out of danger”. He said Faraz’s son Shibli, who arrived here from Pakistan on Wednesday night, was attending him. Reacting to the news about his death, the doctor said when he heard the news about his death, he was shocked as he would have been the first to be informed. So, when he called the hospital to verify the news, he was happy to know that Faraz was alive. Doctor Arain declined to divulge the details about Faraz’s illness and asked the people to pray for his recovery and life.
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May Allah give him health and fast recovery. ameen.
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Any updates on this?
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Faraz’s condition ‘irreversible’
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Ahmed Faraz’s condition, a hospital source told Daily Times on Friday, is so dire as to be “practically irreversible.”
He has also developed pneumonia, which makes his condition even more precarious.
His family wants to take him back to Pakistan as soon as it can be managed, possibly next week.
Faraz suffered a “massive” stroke after he underwent an operation on his knee, which had become infected as a result of the injury he suffered when he fell while coming down the steps of the Canadian embassy in Washington.
He is also said to have developed septicaemia, or poisoning of the blood. His kidneys, in order to remain functional, have to be aided through thrice weekly dialysis.
The cerebral damage the poet suffered has impaired his speech and the right side of his body. He opens his eyes but it is not clear if he recognises people.
He was also found to be diabetic. The multiplicity of these conditions adds up to a prognosis that can only be described as without much hope for recovery.
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Pakistan to pay for Faraz’s treatment
WASHINGTON: The Pakistan government has decided to take responsibility for Ahmed Faraz’s hospitalisation as well as expenses incurred on his return to Pakistan, which could come as early as next week.
This was confirmed to Daily Times by Pakistan’s Ambassador to US Husain Haqqani, who made personal efforts to get the decision approved at the highest levels of government. However, several uncertainties remain, Faraz’s delicate condition being the principal one. While his son Shibli Faraz, who flew in from Pakistan a fortnight ago, and the rest of the family would like to take him home as soon as his doctors permit, it is difficult to say when that might be.
Next week looks like a possibility, but there is no certainty to that either. Ideally, Faraz’s family would want him to be on the non-stop Toronto-Islamabad PIA flight, but that would require Canadian visas for both father and son, something they do not have. However, the Canadian embassy ought to be willing to do the necessary on humanitarian grounds. There is no Canadian consulate in Chicago, so the application will either have to be made in New York or Washington. The fate of the application Faraz made for a Canadian visa in Washington is not known.
One idea thrown up by some that Faraz should be taken home in Prime Minister Gilani’s special PIA plane, is not doable for a number of reasons. Gilani flies back on the afternoon of July 30 from Washington, not to Islamabad but Colombo. Even if he agrees to have Faraz on board, the poet will have to be disembarked at Manchester. In the end, it all depends on Faraz’s condition, which shows no sign of improvement. khalid hasan