The 106th birth anniversary of renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz is being observed on Monday (13 February).
Faiz Ahmed Faiz was born in 1911 in Sialkot.
He was conferred Pakistan's highest civil award Nishan-e-Imtiaz in 1990.
Faiz was the first Asian poet to receive the Lenin Peace Prize awarded by the Soviet Union in 1962. In 1976, he was awarded the Lotus Prize for Literature.
