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Iftikhar Arif
Pakistani poet and litterateur (born 1944)
Iftikhar Hussain Arif[a] (born 21 March 1944) is a Pakistani poet and litterateur of Urdu.
His main theme is romantic Urdu poetry and he has headed the Pakistan Academy of Letters and the National Language Authority.[1][2]
Arif has received the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, and Presidential Pride of Performance awards, the highest literary awards given by the Government of Pakistan.[3]
Early life and career
Iftikhar Arif was born on 21 March 1944 and attended the University of Lucknow, then studied journalism at New York University.[4] He then migrated to Karachi, Pakistan, where he was a newscaster for Radio Pakistan.[4] He then joined the Pakistan Television Corporation (Karachi Center) where he teamed up with Obaidullah Baig for the PTV program Kasauti.[1]
He spent the next thirteen years in England, until 1990, working f