Ghani Khan remembered as strong voice against intolerance.

PESHAWAR -- Speakers at a literary event have termed Ghani Khan as a strong voice of modernism against intolerance.

They said that being a multifaceted personality, he contributed to painting, prose, poetry and several other literary genres and also paved way for literati to craft images in innovative ways. Images in his art and literary pieces were sublime and suburb, pregnant with lofty ideas and thoughts unknown in Pashto before, they added.

The event titled 'Da Ghani Latoon' was arranged in a local college here on Wednesday to mark the 27th death anniversary of Ghani Khan. Students, teachers, poets and writers turned up at the event in a large number.

Arbaz Wazir, a young poet and artist, said that Ghani Khan was never short on words and unique expressions as he had more than one way of conveying his messages and chose to be different from his contemporaries.

Literati pay tributes to legendry poet on his 27th death anniversary

Rukhsana Qadeem, who was chief guest on the occasion, said that Ghani Khan's writings and artworks impacted young generation. She said that budding poets and artists would continue drawing inspiration from his life and contributions.

She said that he would craft word images in poetry and prose and would create art pieces in colours in the ways, which he could do alone.

Sartaj Afghan, another young bard, said that Ghani Khan was a strong voice of progressive thoughts against intolerance and narrow-mildness as he was a rebel against conventional ways of expression. Hardly any other poet or artist could copy Ghani Khan because he was a mendicant...

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