Great classical Urdu poet Mir Taqi Mir’s death anniversary

ISLAMABAD: The foremost classical poet of Urdu, Mir Taqi Mir, was remembered on his death anniversary Thursday. Mir Taqi Mir was born in Agra on 1723. His original name was Muhammad Taqi and takhallus was Mir.
He was the leading Urdu poet of the eighteenth century, and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu language itself. He was one of the principal poets of the Delhi School of the Urdu ghazal and remains arguably the foremost name in Urdu poetry often remembered as

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