ISLAMABAD, July 14: Short-story writer Mazharul Islam on Friday said the best way to pay tribute to the great writer and poet Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi was to carry forward his mission and asked the writers not to be grieved on the passing away of his death.

Speaking at a condolence meeting organized by the Parveen Shakir Trust, he said, “those great men of letters who may have physically passed away, in fact, lived amongst us to carry their mission forward”.

He said Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi would always continue to live in his writings and to test the strength of his literary works on the touchstone of times and find out his relevance to this generation and the next.

Parveen Shakir Trust’s chairperson Parveen Qadir Agha dwelt on the close connection between her organization and Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi whom he was patron-in-chief.

She spoke of Qasmi Sahib’s humility and his way of responding to those who called for his help.

Ms Agha attributed the flowering of Parveen Shakir to Qasmi Sahib. It was he who awakened her to the mystical creative process of poetry writing, trained her and also loved her as her own child, a fact corroborated in the fact that when Parveen Shakir died a number of writers sought out Qasmi to register their sorrow.—JI+

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