Great Urdu and Punjabi poet Munir Niazi was remembered on his death anniversary on Wednesday. According to private news channel, Niazi was born in Khanpur on 19 April 1928, a village near Hushiyarpur, India. He was initially educated at Khanpur and after the partition of India he migrated to newly independent Pakistan and settled in Sahiwal, where he passed his matriculation.

He earned an intermediate degree from S.E. College, Bahawalpur and a B.A. from Diyal Singh College in Lahore, Pakistan. Munir Ahmad, better known as Munir Niazi, Sitara-e-Imtiaz was one of the best-known and admired Urdu poets from Pakistan who also produced good poetry in the Panjabi language. Munir Niazi launched a weekly, Saat Rang, from Sahiwal in 1949. He wrote numerous songs for films and made his name as the foremost movie song writer of Pakistan.

Copyright Associated Press of Pakistan, 2012