Life Fellow Members of PAL nominated

Islamabad

Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) Chairman Dr. Muhammad Qasim Bughio has nominated 'Life Fellow Members of PAL' to senior writers all over the country. The nominees include Dr. Saadat Saeed, Hafeez Khan, Amjad Islam Amjad, Dr. Riaz Majeed, Asghar Nadeem Syed, Mushtaq Sufi and Khursheed Rizvi from Punjab.

Zahida Hina, Fatima Hassan, Altaf Sheikh, Sehar Imdad, Sehar Ansari, Hidayat Baloch, Abdul Ghaffar Tabassum, Shoukat Hussain Shoro, Yusuf Shaheen and Abdul Qadir Jonejo from Sindh.  Munir Ahmed Badeni, Abdul Hakeem Baloch and Tahira Ehsas Jattak from Balochistan.

Dr. Salma Shaheen, Dr. Nazir Tabassum and Nasir Ali Syed from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.  Dr. Ehsan Akbar, Parto Rohela, Haleem Qureshi and Yusu Hassan from Federal Area.

Earlier, the PAL awarded Life Fellowship in 1995 and 2009 which include Afzal Ahsan Randhawa, Bipsi Sidhwa, Dr. Ibaadat Brelvi, Sajjad Haider, Nisar Aziz Butt, Zafar Iqbal, Safdar Mir, Bano Qudsia, Dr. Anwaar Ahmed, Atta-ul-Haq Qasmi, Dr. Salah-ud-Din Haider, Masood Ashar, Syed Afzal Haider, Dr. Khayal Amrohi, Dil Nawaz Dil, Hussain Naqi, Tahira Mazhar Ali, I.A. Rehman, Dr. Mehdi Hassan, Athar Tahir, Dr. Nasrullah Nasir, Ashiq Buzdar, Dr. Anwar Sajjad, Parveen Atif, Dr. Saleem Akhtar, Safdar Saleem Siyyal and Najeeb Jamal from Punjab.

Hajira Masroor, Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo, Jam Saqi, Mushtaq Ahmed Yusufi, Dr. Pirzada Qasim, Dr. Fehmida Hussain, Dr. Dur Muhammad Pathan, Amar Jalil, Imdad Hussaini, Mazhar Jameel, Fehmida Riaz, Rahat Saeed and Dr. Muhammad Qasim Bughio from Sindh.

Saleem Raaz, Sultan Sabir, Farhat Ullah Babar and Zaitoon Bano from Khybar-Pakhtunkhwa.  Dr. Abdul Jan Jamal Dini, Sardar Khan Gishkori, Dr. Naimat Ullah Gichki, Abdul Rehman Brahvi, Abdullah Baloch, Dr. Shah Muhammad Marri and Yusuf Gichki from Balochistan.

Akhtar Jamal, Iftikhar Arif, Mazhar-ul-Islam, Aftab Iqbal Shamim, Hashim Babar, Dr. M. Aslam Syed, Kishwar Naheed, Khalida Hussain, Masood Mufti, Professor Alamgir Hashmi, Ejaz Raheem, Begum Saqiba Raheem Uddin and Dr. Rasheed Amjad from Federal Area.  The writer’s community of Pakistan widely appreciated this initiative of PAL. The practice for such recognition of services of writers prevails all over the world, by academies/institutions.