Urdu Ghazal, Romance, political resistance. Compared with Faiz Ahmad Faiz. Criticised military rulers in Pakistan.

Fine but simple style of writing.

Ahmed Faraz was one of the greatest  Urdu poets of the 20th  century. Born on January 14, 1931in Kohat, N.W.F.P., Pakistan.His real name is Syed Ahmad Shah. Faraz is his pseudonym `takhallus`. Ahmed Faraz studied Persian and Urdu literature at the Peshawar University. He later became lecturer at the Peshawar University. Ahmed Faraz died in Islamabad on August 25, 2008