Friday, December 3, 2010

Bazm-E-Urdu Qatar releases poetry book Shoara-e-Samastipur

In Qatar Nov 7, Bazm-e-Urdu Qatar (BUQ) organized ceremony of a book Shoara-e-Samastipur complied by Ashfaq Qalaque and Bismil Arif at Urdu Khaima in Bin Omran last Friday night. The 144 pages book Shoara-e-Samastipur contains selected poetries of some well known poets of literary circles, from Samastipur district, India.
The function was supervised over by well known poets and chairman of BUQ Mohammed Mumtaz Rashed and Shakeel Ahmad Kakvi, the president of Indian Association for Bihar and Jharkhad, was the chief guest while Ashfaque Qalaque, one of the authors, was the guest of honor. That function was begun with the recitation of some verses of Holy Quran by Wobaidur Rehman. Iftekhar Raghib was initial Anker and welcomed the esteemed guests and acknowledged the literary contributions of Qalaque and Arfi.
Ashfaque Qalaque is a local Urdu poet existing in Qatar for more than ten years and belongs to Samastipur, Bihar. He is currently joint secretary of BUQ and general secretary of Dabistan-e-Adab Qatar. While the New Delhi based co-author, Bismil Arfi is also a poet and sub-editor of Milli Ettehad monthly magazine.
Urdu lovers attended the function include Khalid Dad Khan, Ibrahim Kamal Khan, Yusuf Kamal, Eijaz Haidar, Faisal Haneef, Ashfaque Deshmukh, Mohammed Belal Khan, Hamid Ali, Farooque Ahmad,  Mohammed Shamsuddin, Rabbani, Asim Ghauri, Zawar Hussain Zair, and Imteyaz Ahsan etc.

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