Chairman PAL expresses grief over demise of Dr Ayub Sabir.

ISLAMABAD -- Chairman, Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) Dr. Yousuf Khushk Friday expressed deep sorrow and grief over the demise of well-known writer, scholar and expert on Iqbaliyat, Prof. Dr. Ayub Sabir.

In his condolence message, he said that Professor Dr. Ayub Sabir wrote many books on Iqbal's philosophy and ideology.

His books in defense of Iqbal are regarded as reference books as he also traveled to Britain and India to complete these three volumes written in response to various critics of Iqbal.

He said that late Dr. Ayub Sabir has written more than 20 books on Iqbal, including "Iqbal Enmity A Study", "Evaluation of Objections on Iqbal's Personality", "Iqbal's Urdu Kalam: Language". A few discussions of Bayan, "Iqbal's Dissenters", "Allama Iqbal's Concept of Ijtihad" are worth mentioning.

Apart from this, he has written "Implementation of Urdu in Azad Kashmir", "Researchers' ideas about the origin of Urdu", "Adabastan Hazara", "Pakistani Poetry: Ghazal poets of Abbottabad", Apart from "Urdu...