Categories: Arts and Literature

Revolutionary poet Shams Buneri passes away

F.P. Report
BUNER: Eminent Pashto language nationalist, progressive, revolutionary poet, writer, scholar and former Secretary Culture ANP, Shams Buneri passed away on Tuesday.
His funeral prayers will be offered at Ghazi Khana (Buner) on Wednesday at 11:00 A.M. Due to his revolutionary, resistance poetry and political activities; he remained in exile in Afghanistan for several years and also imprisoned in various prisons of the country.
In Pashto literature, Shams Buneri was also known as the ‘Poet of the Prison’. With his sad demise an important chapter of revolutionary and resistance poetry closed while ANP lost a sincere, state-forward, ideological worker and scholar.

The Frontier Post

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