RAC organises ‘Mehfil-e-Mushaira’

Rawalpindi: The Rawalpindi Arts Council (RAC), in collaboration with ‘Sukhanwar’ and ‘Karwan Fikr-o-Adab’, organised a ‘Mehfil Mushaira’ here on Thursday. Senior poet and columnist Aftab Zia presided over the event while poets from the US Ayaz Mufti, Khalid Khawaja and Basit Jalili were chief guests and Tarannum Shabir, Shah Gul and Jahan Ara Tabassum were guests of honour.
Young poet Naveed Malik was the compere of the ‘mushaira’. The poets who recited their poetry were Arshad Sulehri, Javeria Ambreen, Rakhshinda Kokab, Sajid Manzoor, Farhana Ali, Majid Jahangir, Hasnain Nazish, Hamid Bukhari, Jia Ali, Hashim Hamdani, Riffat Wahid, Yawar Azeem, Bushra Saeed, Naeem Qureshi, Ahmed Zahoor, Arshad Malik, Dr Aziz Faisal, Shahzad Azhar, Tabassum Akhlaq, Kaleem Butt, Dr Farhat Abbas, Hafiz Ilyas, Shahzad Nayyar, Saeed Anwar, Khawar Ejaz, Ziauddin Naeem and Qayyum Tahir.