Pen name Tariqui Ethnicity Khowar speaking Alma mater University of Peshawar Role Poet | Nationality Pakistani Citizenship Pakistani Name Muhammad Khan Education University of Peshawar | |
Born Changiz Khan
8 December 1939
Chitral, North-West Frontier Province, British India ( 1939-12-08 ) Occupation Urdu poet, Khowar Poet, Educationist and writer Died March 8, 2012, Chitral, Pakistan | ||
Muhammad Changiz Khan Tariqui, (1939–2012) (Urdu: محمد چنگیز خان طریقی ) was an Urdu poet, Khowar poet and educationalist from Chitral, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. According to the Khowar researcher Rehmat Aziz Chitrali he was one of the greatest Khowar poets of this era, especially in the use of "ista'aaray" and "chhotee beher". Changiz Khan was born on 8 December 1939 at Shogram, Chitral, Khyber Pakhtun Khwa in Pakistan.
Education and career
Muhammad Changiz Khan Tarriqui was educated at the University of Peshawar, Pakistan.
He did some Khowar literary work with Anjuman-e-Tarraqui-e-Khowar, Chitral, for magazine collections in 1990.
Muhammad Changiz Khan Tarriqui started his poetic life in 1965 by following the style of Iqbal and wrote dozens of Khowar romantic poems. Later he began writing Khowar ghazals and Sufiana Kalaam under the guidance of Dr. Inayatullah Faizi. He was a great admirer of Rehmat Aziz Chitrali, Muhammad Naji Khan Naji, Zakir Muhammad Zakhmi, Afzalullah Afzal, Mirza Muhammad Siyaar, Baba Ayub, Amir Khan Mir, Amir Gul and Javed Hayat and probably the melancholy and "Ehsaas-e-Mehroomi" in his poetry was a direct result of that.
He also translated Khowar poets into Urdu
Tariqui, few days before his death, said in a press interview by Rehmat Aziz Chitrali, that "hunting, writing in Khowar and Urdu language and visiting mountains etc. were my favourite. All my hobbies are related with fine arts, poetry, hunting, love of birds, love of trees etc...." He died in Chitral on 8 March 2012 due to a heart attack.