KARACHI: An event titled Muzahimati Shairi — Do Adwaar, Aik Mukalma ­— in the Urdu Baithak series hosted by the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture at the Sindh Insti­tute of Urology and Trans­plant­­ation on Satur­day (Sept 3) has been postponed.

Eminent poets Iftikhar Arif and Harris Khalique were to discuss resistance poetry in Urdu literature.

A statement circulated by the centre on Thursday read that in these trying times the focus needs to be on the victims of floods. The programme will be rescheduled in ‘better times’, it added.

Published in Dawn, September 2nd, 2022

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