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The Poet: Mirza Muhammad Ibrahim Baig مرزا محمد ابراہیم بیگ, commonly known as Khatir Ghaznavi خاطر غزنوی (takhallus: Khatir خاطر), was born on 31 October 1925. He was the only child of his parents. His family had immigrated from Ghazni غزنی, Afghanistan افغانستان, to the NWFP (North Western Frontier Province) of the British India. His services to literature are tremendous. He started his career as a bursar with the All India Radio, Peshawar, where he worked from 1943 to 1947. After the creation of Pakistan, he stayed with Radio Pakistan until 1962. Following his graduation, he proceeded to China on a deputation to learn the Chinese language. After getting his masters degree in Urdu Literature, he joined the Peshawar University as a lecturer, from where he retired as the Chairman of the Urdu Department. He set up the Chinese language Department at the Peshawar University. He also worked as the head of Pakistan Studies and Urdu Chair at the University of Malaya where he learned the Malay language. His last position was the Director General of the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad, where he worked for about a year. Along with Farigh Bukhari فارغ بُخاری and Raza Hamdani رضا ہمدانی, he started an Urdu literary magazine from Peshawar which had a section devoted to Pashto پشتو culture and literature. He founded Baithak بیٹھک, a Hindko ہندکو (a language very similar to Punjabi) literary organization. He did research on Hindko language and proposed that Urdu language might have its origins in the Hindko language. He was also a founding member of the Abaseen Arts Council اباسین آرٹس کونسل, Peshawar, Pakistan. He was fluent in many languages, including Pashto پشتو, Hindko ہندکو, Urdu, English, Chinese, and Malay. He authored about 45 books, most of them in Urdu and Hindko. Five of these are collections of poetry including a verse translation of Khushal Khan Khattak's poetry. Among his non-poetic works are Suba Sarhad Kay Rumaan صوبہ سرحد کے رومان, and a translation of Khushal Khattak's خوشحال خان خٹک Dastaar Nama دستار نامہ. He loved books and donated about 6,000 books to the Qartaba University and about 22,000 books to the Peshawar University. He passed away in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, on 6 July 2008 and was buried in his ancestral graveyard in Peshawar. The Singer: Mehdi Hassan مہدی حسن The last she'r: maqta' مقطع of this ghazal: کیا قیامت ہے کہ خاطرؔ کُشتہِ شب بھی تھے ہم صُبح بھی آئی تو مُجرم ہم ہی گردانے گئے خاموش تماشائی (KhamoshTamashai)