From Ravi Magazine: Parveen Shakir, besides being the most prominent poetess of Pakistan, was also renowned for her academic merits par-excellence and civil services. She was Fulbright Consortium Scholar at University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut) and expressed a command over global literature as she used western characters to represent dilemmas of our society and circumstances. One example is a recent post, see “Aik Sab Aik Tarah se Dr. Faustus Hain [We Are All Dr Faustus in a way].
There is much written about personal unhappy life, which unfortunately in Pakistan even eclipsed her poetry. A single mother, she laments being considered a public property in Pakistani society open for criticism and vilification.
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