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Ajmal Khattak Hospitalized

[17.Oct.2008 - 10:36]
Friday, 17 October 2008 :Nationalist politician and famous Pashto poet Ajmal Khattak was addmitted to Lady Reading Hospital on the other day for medical checkup. Born on September 15,1925 in Akora Khattak, Nowshehra, Mr. Khattak suffers from multiple medical problems. Chief Minister Pakhtunkhwa Mr. Ameer Haider Khan Hoti and Senior Minister and Parliamentary Leader of Awami National Party in provincial assembly Bashir Ahmad Bilour made a visit to the Bolton Block, Lady Reading Hospital seperately and inquired after the health of the vertran ANP leader and former party central president Ajmal Khattak baba here in Peshawar on Thursday.
Dr. Hafeezullah, Chief Executive LRH, Dr. Khazar Hayat, Ms, Dr. Farooq Khan, DMS and other medical officers were also present on the occasion. The doctors said that the health of the aged poet was quite satisfactory and that he would be shifted home by this evening. Ajmal Khatak while talking to the CM Pakhtunkhwa and Senior Minister appreciated the hospital administration for his proper treatment and care. Bashir Ahmad Bilour said that Ajmal Khan Khattak was their national asset and it was their responsibility and duty to take care of him. He also paid rich tributes to the great intellectual on his political, national and literary services saying that people and leaders should get benefit from his God-gifted qualities and should pray for his longevity. Chief Minister prayed for the recovery of veteran nationalist leader while eulogizing his meritorious services to the Pakhun national and ANP. Later while talking on phone to the KhyberWatch his son Aimal Khan Khattak was saying that Baba was discharged and that he had been admitted to the hospital for routine check up. He informed that Baba`s health was stable. Mr. Khattak an acclaimed poet politician and writer has been served twice as central president of Awami National Party. He won the provincial assembly seat in 1972and served as a provincial minister in Mufti Mahmud-led coalition government of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam and National Awami Party (NAP). Following the resignation of the provincial cabinet in protest against the then president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto´s dismissal of the Sardar Akhtar Mengal´s government in Balochistan, Mr Khattak elevated to the position of general secretary of NAP. He was also organizer of the United Democratic Front´s public meeting at famous Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi on March 23, 1973. He was stage secretary when shots were fired at United Democratic Front (UDF) leaders, including late Khan Abdul Wali Khan. He was witness to the political hooliganism, when several political workers were mowed down. After the incident, he went into exile in Afghanistan and stayed there till 1989. I am deeply concerned at the political situation in the South Asia. What is being done against Pakhtuns is troubling me more than my illness, he told Daily Dawn from the hospital bed. He said his life was replete with struggle for democracy and aggrandizement of culture and was much concerned about the situation in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and other neighboring countries. During his stay in Afghanistan, Mr. Khattak enjoyed cordial relation with the government and was given the status of state guest by the then Afghan president Sardar Daud Khan. He maintained his cordial relations with the successive Afghan governments during the Soviet occupation of the country. Mr. Khattak realises that being a man of letters, his involvement in active politics was an aberration. He could have better served his people through his poetic talent. He had been born with the restless soul of a poet. Like many other towering poets of the sub-continent, he too was influenced by the Russian Revolution. His poems, highlighting the exploitation of peasants and other wretched of earth, would sing at the political rallies and meetings of other progressive parties. He set a different poetic tone than his traditional contemporary poets. His poetry is a blend of beauty of human nature and courage of a revolutionary. Mazdoor Kisan party, a radical Maoist group having roots in Charsadda and Mardan, was against his party, NAP but its activists would read out his poems at their meetings. His first poem was published in 1944 in PAKHTUN a magazine while his first poetry collection, Da Ghairat Chagha, was published in 1958, that was later banned in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Da Ghairat Chagha, Batoor, Gul Parhar, Guloona Takaloona, Da Ze Paghal wom, Zhwand au Fan, Kachkol, Da Afghan Nang, Da wakht Chagha, Da Zhwand Chagha and Qisa Zama Da Adabi Zhwand are his famous books. Mr. Khattak also wrote an Urdu book, named Jalawatan ki Shaeri. د پښتنو قامی سنګر - Zahid Buneri
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