فيروز اپريدی د وطن په ګلدروکښې
ليک :وزير بادشاه جانان کاش چې ما فيروز اپريدی د يو شاعر،اديب،نقاد په حيث پيژندلی !!!، خو خبره څه بل رنګ ده، او هغه داسې چې فيروز اپريدی، زه له تيرو څليروشتو کالو راسی پيژنم چې د خليج په سوراړه کښې ئې د بنجر پټي په پوله لاس راکړی، او له هغه دمه ، تر نن پورې زما لاس د فيروز لاس او د فيروز لاس زما لاس ګرځيدلی دی .د دغۀ بنجر پټي په خړوب کښې سره اوږه په اوږه او لاس په لاس ولاړ د څو مخلصو ملګرو په مرسته او ملاتړ په شريکه د ادب د بوټو او ګلونو خصمانه کوو.نن دغه بنجر پټي د ادب هغه ګلان راټوکولي دي چې خلک ورته ګوته په خله او حيران دي.
A patriot writer’s stories relating his homeward journey By Sher Alam Shinwari Book: Collection of Reportages (Pashto) – Da Watan Pah Guldaro Ke Author: Feroz Apridi Printed at Zia Sons Printers, Peshawar Circulated under auspices of Pekhawar Pakhto Adabi Jirga Pp 149, Price Rs 150 Monday, 20 July 2009 Despite odd times poets and writers have kept up alive literary activities to paint expressions of their internal and external world. Such writing is called spirit of the age. A writer being very sensitive cannot afford to remain silent in a society he/she lives in. Poets and writers living abroad are always thinking of their homeland; therefore, their writings carry a nostalgic touch – a fragrance and a rare feel of the motherland. Once culturally conscious people step on a foreign land, they involve themselves in any activity that helps in keeping their national pride and cultural identity intact. Feroz Afridi patron –in chief Pak –Pashto Adabi Tolana Doha Qatar is one such inspired literary figure who is quite known to literary circles for his unflinching efforts to promote Pashto by arranging various kinds of cultural and literary activities in Doha Qatar and also engaged in working for the betterment of Pakistani Community in Qatar. He is based in Doha Qatar for the last more than twenty years. Feroz Afridi hailing from Bara, Khyber Agency is a poet, literary critic and a culture proponent, remained President of Pak Pashto Adabi Tolana Doha Qatar for 15 years, during his tenure he has arranged 100 grand Pashto mushairas on different occasions, published 35 books of writers and poets - members of the Pak Pashto Adabi Tolana and personally financed publication of 10 poetry and prose books of those men of letters who could not afford brining out their creative works on their expenses. He is also President of Peshawar based literary organization Pekhawar Pakhto Adabi Jirga. He has edited, compiled and published two books earlier, Jaggay Shamlay and Rokhana Sabawoon and received much accolade from the readers. Feroz Afridi recently brought out a collection of miniature Reportages in Pashto a book form titled Da Watan Pah Guldaro Ke- in the floral valley of the homeland. He has made it a routine to visit Pakistan in March every year and spends time with his friends, mostly literary figures. This book contains Reportages narrating stories full of valuable information, fun drenched in literary taste, which is reflective of Feroz unique style. Divided into two parts the book gives us details of meeting with giants of literature both Urdu and Pashto while some highlight picnic resorts. Also Feroz dilates upon literary functions he has attended. On the back jacket flap Abaseen Yousafzai tells, “ The writer with all his innocence has unveiled small sometime petty stories in these Reportages in such a fluent and simple manner that the reader is forced to devolve into the story itself and sometimes swept away by ecstatic ripples of its background. He makes the apparently petty and trivial topic more important, inevitable and most important interesting by employing technique of artistic weaving of words and sentences together.” Reportage as a literary genre is least written in Pashto, we have many travelogue writers, a literary reportage must have a creative tinge and not just a simple dull narration and Feroz Afridi successfully has come up to this merit. We hope he brings out his poetry collection next time as he has recited very poetic pieces in mushaira and prominent singers PBC have sung few of his inspiring poems have been sung by prominent singers and also aired by PBC Peshawar and PTV Peshawar Centre showing his love fore his country, people and places. This collection contains reportages of the writer’s visits he made to Pakistan in years 2008 and 09. For Pashto lovers a it is a must read and those living abroad will make an imaginative journey with the writer and indeed will derive pleasure and satisfy their literary taste. - 
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