Unofficial: Parveen shakir

Born: November 24, 1952, Karachi
Died: December 26, 1994, Islamabad Parveen Shakir was an Urdu poet, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan.

Parveen started writing at an early age and published her first volume of poetry, Khushbu [Fragrance], to great acclaim, in 1976

Parents: Syed Shakir Hussain Zaidi
Books: Talking to Oneself: Translation of Selected Poems of Perveen Shakir
Children: Syed Murad Ali
Education: Harvard University, University of Karachi