Life and connection to Punjab
Nasir Kazmi (1925–1972) was an Urdu poet known for his ghazals and his association with Lahore. Rekhta records his birth in Ambala in British India and his move to Pakistan after Partition. He died in Lahore.[1]
Education and radio in Lahore
Nasir Kazmi's working life joined Urdu poetry with broadcasting and prose. Rekhta records schooling in Peshawar and Ambala before enrolment for a BA course at Government College, Lahore. Partition interrupted that study; the profile does not describe a completed degree. It also identifies work in welfare and agriculture departments before his association with Radio Pakistan. During his radio career he wrote sketches of classical Urdu poets. These professional pieces place prose alongside the ghazals for which he became known, connecting his literary interests with the practical work of broadcasting.[1]
Manuscripts and Pehli Barish
Mushtaq Ahmed Khan's 2026 study follows another part of that writing into print. Drawing on Basir Sultan Kazmi's account, he records three manuscripts prepared in pocket diaries in 1971: Diwan, Pehli Barish and Nishat-i Khwab. Pehli Barish appeared as a book after the poet's death, published by Sheikh Ghulam Ali and Sons in Lahore in 1975. Some of its ghazals had appeared earlier in Naya Daur. Khan treats the collection as a connected formal experiment, with short ghazals in a uniform metre. His study examines verses omitted, revised or added in the movement towards the published text. Khan uses Alqa's 2016 third edition among the collection's textual witnesses for his comparison. The account gives the collection a history of preparation and editorial change, rather than presenting every later printed version as identical.[2]
A play in a later edition
Drama also survives as a specific printed publication. CiNii Books records Sur ki Chhaya: Ek Katha in Urdu, issued by Maktaba Khayal in Lahore in 1983 with a second-printing statement. The record gives 108 pages and a holding at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. It identifies a later dramatic edition without establishing the first publication or a performance history.[3]
Sources & notes
Source records include access dates and, where known, limits on what was examined. Checks used AI assistance; independent human or specialist review has not been completed.
- Rekhta Foundation. Nasir Kazmi: profile ↗Author profile · Source date: publication date not established · Locator: Profile, professional paragraphs. Accessed 2026-11-02.Retrospective profile; medical and private claims excluded.Return to Life and connection to Punjab, paragraph 1 ↑Return to Education and radio in Lahore, paragraph 1 ↑
- Mushtaq Ahmed Khan. Nasir Kazmi’s Pehli Barish: Textual Revisions, Additions, and Omitted Verses ↗Textual study · Source date: 2026-06-19 · Locator: Bunyad 17(1), pp. 267–269,296–298. Accessed 2026-11-02.Selected argument and references read; quoted critics and verse excluded.Return to Manuscripts and Pehli Barish, paragraph 1 ↑
- National Institute of Informatics. Sur ki Chhaya, 1983 edition: catalogue record ↗Library catalogue · Source date: publication date not established · Locator: CiNii BA75556386. Accessed 2026-11-02.Edition record inspected; play text and performance uninspected.Return to A play in a later edition, paragraph 1 ↑
Record PH-PEO-0127 · English edition · human review not performed