Online 'Hamdiya and Naatiya Mushaira' of Kashmiri languages held.

ISLAMABAD -- An online 'Hamdiya and Naatiya Mushaira' of Kashmiri languages (Kashmiri, Gojri, Pahari) was organized by the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL).

The Presidium consisted of Allama Jawad Jafari and Mukhlis Wajjdani, Dr. Maqsood Jafari was the Chief Guest. Dr. Saghir Khan and Karimullah Qureshi were the guests of honor. Dr.Yousuf Khushk, Chairman, PAL, gave the introductory speech. Prof. Ijaz Nomani was the moderator.

Dr. Yousuf, while giving the introductory speech, said that the beginning of Hamad and Naat recitation in Kashmiri language is attributed to the arrival of Syed Ali Hamdani in Kashmir. In 1372, he introduced Kashmiris to the importance of Hub e Rasool and Hamd Goi with his Naat collection "Chahal Israr" (in Persian and consisted on forty ghazals). Later, three Kashmiri writers also translated your Persian collection into Kashmiri. After this, a series of Hamd-o-Naat recitation started in Kashmir with the Kashmiri speech of Sheikh Noor-ud-Din Rishi. Kashmiri praisers and Naat seekers have appealed to Allah Almighty and the Holy Prophet (PBUH) to end oppression in Kashmir itself. After Sheikh Noor-ud-Din Rishi, there is a long list of Kashmiri Hamd and Naat reciters including Khawaja Habibullah Nowshehrawi, Fakhir Kashmiri, Mahmood Gami, Qutbuddin Waiz, Mir Sanaullah Kredi, Maqbool Shah Kerala Wari, Rashid Nazki, Ashiq Tadali. Notable are Abdul Ahad Nadeem, Abdul Wahab Pare and Mir Ghulam Rasool Naz.

He said that the written capital of Gojri language is not much. After 1920, Gojri language writing began in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. When the Hurriyat Kashmir movement gained momentum, the Gujjar writers of the state of Jammu and Kashmir played their role by making the Gojri...