Saleem Shahzad’s Recitation of a Dream
𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙚𝙢 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙝𝙯𝙖𝙙’𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙨𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙤𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧 𝙖 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙫𝙞𝙚𝙬 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣. 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 ….
Nasir Karim Khan Born on September 3rd, 1970, in Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan, is a poet and educationist. He holds a Master's degree in English Language and Literature from Punjab University, Lahore. After teaching as a Lecturer of English Language at Pakistan Embassy College in 1997, an Instructor at Vocational Training Institute Bahawal Nagar in 2000, and Communication Skills at Islamia University Bahawal Pur, he founded Springtide School in 2005. He has published collection of Urdu poems “𝘠𝘢𝘩𝘢’𝘯 𝘉𝘢𝘴 𝘙𝘦𝘵 𝘜𝘥𝘵𝘪 𝘏𝘺”(Naught, But the Sands Dance Here”) in 2000. He has also translated poems and short stories from Urdu to English. He received the Best Emerging Poet Award from BBC London in 1989. His work has been featured in various publications, and he’s going to publish his second book of poems this year.