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Pakistani poet and litterateur (born 1944)

Iftikhar Hussain Arif^[a] (born 21 March 1944) is a Pakistani poet and litterateur of Urdu.

His main theme is romantic Urdu poetry and he has headed the Pakistan Academy of Letters and the National Language Authority.^[1][2]

Arif has received the Nishan-e-Imtiaz, Hilal-e-Imtiaz, Sitara-e-Imtiaz, and Presidential Pride of Performance awards, the highest literary awards given by the Government of Pakistan.^[3]

Early life and career

Iftikhar Arif was born on 21 March 1944 and attended the University of Lucknow, then studied journalism at New York University.^[4] He then migrated to Karachi, Pakistan, where he was a newscaster for Radio Pakistan.^[4] He then joined the Pakistan Television Corporation (Karachi Center) where he teamed up with Obaidullah Baig for the PTV program Kasauti.^[1]

He spent the next thirteen years in England, until 1990, wor