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Gehwara-e-Adab Canada
announces it’s restructuring of Canada’s Central Committee and
cities across Canada. Prominent Urdu Poet/Schollar Wali Alam Shaheen takes reins of the literary organization. |
 Urdu | Photographs |
Gehwara-e-Adab Canada in an event held at a local Mississauga community hall, announced its Canada wide restructuring in major cities and appointment of Gehwara-e-Adab Central committee under the guidance of prominent Urdu poet and scholar Wali Alam Shaheen. Gehwara’s event was attended by media and large number of literary figures of Greater Toronto area. During the first part of the program; Mohamed Abbas gave details about the main idea of program, background of Gehwara-e-Adab Canada and then invited Wali Alam Shaheen on head table along with Iqbal Qamar Central Organiser of MQM Canada. Program started with recitation of Holy Quran and then Shakil Shaikh presented beautiful Hamd-o-Naate. Iqbal Qamar Central Organizer of MQM was then invited to address the participant who thanked all honourable guests present and appreciated their cooperation at present, past as well as in future, Iqbal Qamar also paid tribute to the organizations who had been lending their support through out the journey of Gehwara-e-Adab, exclusively Munir Saami and Abid Jafri of Writers Forum, along with all other important personalities and literary organizations who have been instrumentals with their kind support. Iqbal Qamar briefly expressed the ideology of MQM with reference to promotion of Literary activities across the world in general and in Canada in particular, he also thanked prominent Literary figure Wali Alam Shaheen for accepting offer of leading Gehwara-e-Adab Canada and then invited him to say a few words and announce re-structuring of Gehwara-e-Adab. Mr. Wali Alam Shaheen after a brief speech about important of literature in our lives and society announced the names of different member across Canadian cites for the committees of Gehwara-e-Adab. Shahid Raza Khan will remain in-charge of Ghewara-e-Adab Canada and new Central Committee will be comprised of Mohamed Abbas (Mississauge), Anis Farooqui (Markham), Sahir Zameer (Thornclifrf), Shakil Shaikh (Scarborough) and Shaheryar Qureshi (Edmonton). Other committees of Canadian cities comprises as follows: Toronto GTA (Aqeel Haider, Anwar Kamal Rizvi), Calgary Committee (Mohsin Iqbal, Irfan Haider, Imran Siddiqui and Abid Haider), Edmonton Committee (Dr. Seemee Wahidi), Saskatoon Committee (Tufail Sheikh), Vancouver Committee (Syed Farhat Rizvi), Montreal Committee (Zameer Khan and Cpt.(r) Fakhr-uddin). Hamilton Committee comprises members from Hamilton, Burlington, Kitchner and London (Fateh Mohammed) Announcement was also made about the upcoming mushaira which shall take place in spring 2011. Such events will also be organized in Toronto and Montreal, details to follow. Wali Alam Shaheen also announced the motion moved and approved by Central Committee of Gehwara-e-Adab Canada for launch of an International Literary Award (Annual Gehwara Aalmi Adabi Award) for 5 to 10 literary figures from around the world, further plans to be announced. The second part of the program was the Mehfil-e-Mushaira which was emceed by Anis Farooqui and Mohamed Abbas. The Mehfile-Mushaira was presided over by senior poet, Wali Alam Shaheen and Ikram Barelvi. In the mushaira Salman Ather, Anwar Kamal Rizvi, Tariq Hussain, Rida Fatima, Parveen Sultana Saba, Shakila Rafiq, Faisal Azeem, Jawad Faizi, Afzal Naveed, Rasheed Nadeem, Tahir Aslam Gora, Zamin Jafri, Nasim Syed, Zakia Ghazal, Munif Ashar, and Wali Alam Shaheen presented their poetry and were appreciated by the audience. The Mushaira was well organized, prestigious and enjoyed by the attendees and will be remembered. After mushaira dinner was served during which participants and organizer mingled and expressed mutual feelings about the success of the Gehwara-e-Adab. |