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A poet with a lantern
Not many people know about Sharif Khan Ustad, a Pashto poet from North Waziristan, who died recently and how he used to carry a lantern in daytime to ward off the Taliban era’s darkness
By
Rahimullah Yusufzai
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Published June 18, 2017
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A Pashto poet from North Waziristan
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The grace of words
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Reclaiming refusal
From salons to Iqbal
Winds of change
Lost lives of a painter
Who owns the Taj Mahal?
Diplomatic reset
A world beyond words
The Lahore that was
Precarious peace
From Mirza to Mirza
The voice that carried a nation
Gaza post-bellum
A life in lines
Karachi’s quiet cultural revival
Ceasefire at last
Viewers as curators
Swords and sarangis