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Bureau Report | Published December 5, 2017

PESHAWAR: Noted Pashto and Urdu poet,

research scholar and literary critic Riaz Tasneem
died in a Karachi hospital on Monday morning
after battling for life for more than a month.

He left behind a son, a daughter and widow. He

was laid to rest in Rasheedabad, Karachi Site area
the same day. Pashto poets, writers, fans and
family members attended his funeral. He had
been bedridden for chronic liver cirrhosis for the
last few years.

Literary circles in Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta

termed the untimely death of Riaz Tasneem an
irreparable loss for Pashto language and
literature.

Expressing his views in Peshawar on Monday,

Prof Abaseen Yousafzai said that with the sad
demise of a literary figure, Pashto had lost a
precious gem, who believed in the true spirit of
literary substance and genuine creativity. A critic
par excellence and a poet, the late Tasneem’s
vacuum would take long to fill, he added.

Born in Swatu village, Charsadda district in 1969,

he did his intermediate from Islamia College
Peshawar. He moved to Karachi in early 90s and
qualified his graduation from Karachi University
as a private candidate and joined police service
but also used to serve as teacher at a private
school.

Writers say Riaz

Tasneem believed in
true spirit of literary
substance

While in Peshawar, he started his career as a sub-

editor at a Pashto daily, Wahdat, and participated
in literary events. He used to contribute to Pashto
and Urdu newspapers and literary journals on
various literary and research topics.

Makham Khattak, a Karachi-based poet and

friend of Riaz Tasneem, told this scribe that the
late poet was in fact a great humanist and
strongly believed in the power of pen. He said
that Tasneem enjoyed good relations with Urdu
literati in Karachi and was respected among Urdu
literary circles.

Riaz Tasneem got affiliated with literary

organisations both Pashto and Urdu in Karachi
and shot to fame as a progressive poet when his
maiden Pashto poetry collection ‘Da Kum Rang
May Kasheed Karhay’ was published in 2003. It
was followed by his second and third poetry
volumes namely “Chandarh” and “Za Ka Da
Waray Oda Shwam” which received widespread
appreciation from Pashto poetry lovers.

He was known for his scathing style of literary

criticism but he was held in high esteem among
literary circles for his deep insight and genuine
scholarship.

The late poet had also researched and published

a selected poetry of Khushal Khan Khattak (Da
Khushal Intekhab) in his lifetime. His unique
literary creation that saw light of the day while
still alive was ‘ Bed No 28’ a literary reportage
when he was hospitalised in Jinnah hospital,
Karachi , last year on bed No. 28 for exactly 28
days while a collection of his Urdu poetry
couldn’t be published owing to his poor financial
position.

Riaz Tasneem remained affiliated with a popular

Pashto journal ‘Jaras’ published from Karachi for
a long time and profusely contributed to its
different sections.

Published in Dawn, December 05th, 2017

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