KARACHI, Feb 02: Poet, writer and journalist Shamim Naved, who died on Jan 22 due to heart attack was remembered by his friends and admirers at the City Club, the occasion hosted by Institute of Ethics and Culture on Tuesday. Yusuf Jamal, Sindh's ombudsman was in the chair.

Mr Jamal recalled with deep sense of grief that due to an engagement abroad he could not take part in the launching ceremony of late Shamim Naved's poetry collection Ek Sae Ka qatel hua, held six months back, although he was actively associated in organising the launching programme.

In his discourse, Yusuf Jamal remembered, other contemporary poets who died young and Shamim Naved at 63 was however, "a man of great potentialities, not that old to have died so early." His ghazals, as he went through them, were full of pathos sadly he was lost in unproductive occupations.

Sarver Javed who was a close friend of Shamim Naved during the later part of the latter's life dilated upon the poetic qualities of the volume Ek Sae Ka qatal hua and presented some of his couplets to prove his contention.

Muslim Shamim recalled the late poet's association with the Progressive writer's Association and his firm commitment with the ideology. Muslim Shamim, Hasan Rizvi and many other speakers lamented that the late Naved, engaged himself totally with fiction writing having compiled 80 novels and the real creative poet in him died in the process.

He was versatile in the way that he could write any sort of journalistic piece from features to editorials with commendable ease, said Aasif Maalik, his colleague in the daily they were both working.

Maalik his colleague in the daily they were both working. Maalik was sad to note that market economy had prevailed over the literary and cultural writings. Among those who paid compliments to the poet S N included Mrs Pervin Javed, Yunus Ramz and Majed Ali Syed.