Muzaffar Warsi | |
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Born | Muzaffar Siddiqui[1] 23 Dec 1933[1] Meerut, United Provinces, British India |
Died | 28 January 2011[1] | (aged 77)
Occupation(s) | Poet (Hamd and Na'at lyricist, film songs lyricist)[1] |
Years active | 1961–2006 |
Awards | Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan in 1988[1] |
Website | [1] |
Muzaffar Warsi (23 December 1933 – 28 January 2011; Urdu: مظفر وارثی) was a Pakistani poet, essayist, lyricist, and a scholar of Urdu. He began writing more than five decades ago. He wrote a rich collection of na`ats, as well as several anthologies of ghazals and nazms, and his autobiography Gaye Dinon Ka Suraagh. He also wrote quatrains for Pakistan's daily newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt.[1]