ISLAMABAD, July 29: Mystic poet Waris Shah’s thoughts can enlighten us to find solutions of many problems of our age, said Shafqat Tanveer Mirza in his presidential remarks at a literary ...

Waris Shah belongs to the Nanak-o-Farid, Farid-o-Nanak tradition of the Punjab where religious identity remains unannounced and dormant. Inclusivity and diversity is cherished and celebrated ...

Waris Shah’s Heer Ranjha: Poetry enthusiasts keep love saga alive. Conclusion of marathon weekly narration of the epic celebrated with a musical evening. Our Correspondent January 24, 2016.

Punjabi Sufi Bulle Shah's poetry drew imagery from Waris Shah’s Punjabi love story of Heer-Ranjha, allegorising God as Ranjha and himself as Heer, pining for th ...

Mian Hidayatullah is considered to be the first poet who began this trend of literary excesses in the name of Waris Shah. He included 1673 lines of his own and had them printed in 1885 by ...

Waris Shah is an imaginative and heartfelt portrait of the Punjab's most celebrated poet. In Punjabi with English subtitles. Waris Shah - Ishq Daa Waaris is released in UK cinemas on Friday 6th ...

Waris Shah was a Sufi poet and our literature is rich due to poems such as Heer. So, promoting his vision is our responsibility.” The play is a good initiative to retain the commercial theatre ...

Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) celebrated the 300th birth anniversary of Syed Waris Shah (1706-1798) the legendary Punjabi poet and the creator of the epic Heer, based on a traditional folklore.

This ode to Waris Shah, the Sufi poet who had penned the tragic story of Punjab’s folk heroine Ranjha, written during a sorrowing journey, went straight to the hearts of the traumatised, ...

His lifespan also overlapped with that of Punjabi poet Waris Shah (1722-1798), of Heer Ranjha fame, and the Sindhi Sufi poet Abdul Wahab (1739-1829), better known by his pen name Sachal Sarmast.