Native name رحمت عزیز چترالی Ethnicity Khoshey Name Rehmat Chitrali Home town Chitral | Nationality Pakistani Citizenship Pakistan Role Poet | |
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Born 25 April 1970 (age 54)
Chitral, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan ( 1970-04-25 ) Occupation Blogger for rights to Mother Language Education, Youth Development & Human Rights, Children, Youth, & Women Rights activist, Social worker,Urdu poet, Peace poet, Broadcast journalist
,author, Peace Advocate, & Pioneer of Khowar Wikipedia Education M.A IS with specialisation in Quran and Tafseer,BLIS, LL.B,DISE,DIL, DIJ and Research in Pakistani Languages | ||
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Rehmat Aziz Chitrali (Urdu: رحمت عزیز چترالی ) Gold Medalist,World Record holder IIA, IIA(Germany), PNA SF; YSA; AFRCS, SL also widely regarded as Mohsin-e-Lisaniyaat (Urdu: محسن لسانیات; lit. "Benefactor of Languages"), more popularly known as Rahmat Chitralvi, 25 April 1970) is an Urdu and Khowar poet, from Chitral, North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Pakistan. He works as journalist, columnist, linguist TV show host and Khowar language political analyst. Chitrali was at the forefront of the Khowar Language Movement and was most active between 1990 to 2012.
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- Watch an amazing story of Rehmat Aziz Chitrali
- Biography
- Education
- Career
- Chetraro Hawaz Khyber News TV
- Khowar Academy
- Literary career
- Example of Poetry
- Yak Misraee Nazm
- Awards Distinction
- Books and publications
- Tribute of Pakistani media to Rehmat Aziz
- References
Rehmat is a Pakistani intellectual, Human Rights Activist, Youth Activist and linguist. He was among the foremost authorities on Mother Language Education and languages of Pakistan. He invented a multilingual text editor for Pakistan’s forty languages which can be used to type as many as forty languages of Pakistan with a single plate from. Throughout his career, Chitrali held various positions and international fellowships, apart from developing softwares for Pakistani languages, he is particularly known for linguistic work on mother languages spoken in Pakistan. He is also the recipient of various national, international and awards in Pakistan. As a prolific linguist, he is able to speak, read and write many local and international languages and dialects. He is the former President of Anjuman-e-Tarraqui-e-Khowar, and Khowar Academy. He is working as Host & Anchor of the Khowar language Television programme, Chitraro Hawaz (Voice of Chitral, Urdu: چترال کی آواز ), at the AVT Khyber Media Group and also writes Khowar News for Khyber News TV and hosts Chetraro Hawaaz on Khyber News.Previously he has worked in PTV's programme Sunday Brunch with Rashid Sammi. He has written many books on prose and poetry. His poetry work has been appreciated by poets and writers of Pakistan. Rehmat, an ethnic Chitrali, graduated in BLIS, with an MA degree and LL.B degree, to become the first Khoshey LL.M Degree holder of Khot Valley. He scored highest marks in the all the exams from Matriculation to M.A.LL.B .
He received an Associate Fellowship from Royal Commonwealth Society, (Great Britain) in 2015. During the same year, Chitrali received Yasirullah Shaheed Award and International Innovation Award .In 1992, he was appointed President Anuman-e-Tarraqui-e-Khowar Karachi. He remained Chairman of the Khowar Academy. In 1999, Aziz became Honorary Managing Editor of Chitral Vision newspaper.
Biography
Rehmat Aziz Chitrali was born in Chitral, Pakistan. He studied at Federal University of Arts, Science and Technology, Islamabad Pakistan and Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad. He settled in Karachi, Pakistan in 1985. He moved to Islamabad after his marriage to Hashima Chitrali a Chitral-based teacher in 2007.
Education
Chitrali studied until 10th in Khot Valley Torkhow. For further studies he was sent to Booni at Khandaan where he got admission into the Government Inter College, Booni.
After passing his F.A examination from this college, he went to Karachi to pursue a higher education. He passed his Master Degree in Islamic Studies with specialisation in Quran and Tafseer, LL.B. and Library and Information Degree.
Career
Chitrali came into the spotlight with his program Chetraro Hawaz the Chitrali language's longest-running current affairs TV show. His show carried interviews with prominent people from politics, civil life, literature and culture. Politicians who were interviewed on Chetraro Hawaz included Prince of Chitral Mohiuddin, former Member National Assembly Maulana Abdul Akbar Chitrali, Qazi Fazal Elahi, Wing Commandar Fardad Ali Shah, Educationist Syed Wali Shah, Social Worker Sultan Mehmood Minister for population and Welfare Government of Khyber Pakhtun khwa Saleem Khan, PTV Producer Habib-ur-Rahman, and Ismaili Religious Scholar Syed Amir Shah.
During his editorship in Shandoor Magazine at Karachi, Aziz worked as a Secretary General of Chitral Welfare Association. Later, in 2000 he became Managing Editor at the Chitral Vision. In 2001, he translated Khowar literature into Urdu language for M.Phil students and research scholars of Allama Iqbal Open university, Islamabad. Over the span of his career, Chitrali has been awarded honorary fellowships by the Royal Commonwealth Society of Great Britain (2015).
Chetraro Hawaz – Khyber News TV
In April 2009, Chitrali joined Khyber News TV, at AVT Khyber TV, he hosted the show, Chetraro Hawaz (Voice of Chitral). Due to his open criticism of the corrupt politicians, terrorists and taliban on the show, R. A. Chitrali became a problem for the regime.
Khowar Academy
In 1996 a literary organisation named "Khowar Academy" was formed to promote the language of Chitral and for the rights of the people of Chitral District. He is the president of this organisation and is an active participant. During this time he briefly held the office of President of Anjuman-e-Tarraquir-e-Khowar in Karachi. The Khow youth elected Chitrali as General Secretary of this organisation while Ali Afsar Jan Advocate was the President. Rehmat Aziz Chitrali resigned from his designation to promote the new organisation. Afraid of the popularity of the Anjuman, the anti-chitralis conspired against the Organization.
Literary career
The candour and frankness of his highly-charged poems is unusual for a young generation writing in Urdu and Khowar language and he has gained a committed national audience, performing at large poetry gatherings in Pakistan. Rehmat Aziz Chitrali wrote poems in Chitrali, Urdu and Khowar language. Most of his poems are in Khowar and Urdu languages. He was good friends with Ahmad Faraz. Once Faraz Sahib was the managing director of National Book Foundation offered to translate Rehmat Aziz's poems in Urdu but Rehmat Aziz turned down the offer. Most of Rehmat Aziz's Urdu poetry was written between 1985–2012. Rehmat Aziz Chitrali's Urdu and Khowar poetry is filled with revolutionary and anti-imperialist themes and it reflects his progressive nature and socialist ideals. Rehmat Aziz Chitrali is very much against the class differences that prevailed at that time, and still do. His poems exhibit his dislike for the chauvinistic attitude of the rich towards the poor.
Troyki is a form of Khowar/Chitrali poetry initiated by Rehmat Aziz Chitrali. Unlike sher, a Troyki consists of three "hemistichs" (misras). The first two are complete in themselves but the addition of the third misra gives a new dimension.
Example of Poetry
An example of Rachitrali's Troyki:
اللہ مہ خودای تہ نام رحمان دی رحیم دی تو غفار دی، غفورالرحیم دی کرم کوس اسپہ سورا تو رب کریم دیYak Misraee Nazm
Yak Misraee Nazm (Urdu:یک مصرعی نظم) is a part of the Khowar and Urdu poetry, that is normally written in one verse. Nazm has many different forms as, Yak Misraee Nazm is a form of Khowar/Chitrali poetry and Urdu poetry initiated by the khowar poet Rehmat Aziz Chitrali. Unlike sher, a Yak Misraee Nazm consists of one verse only. He is a member of younger generation of male poets. His experience of living in Karachi shows a notable impact on a significant number of poems. Living through Diaspora has increased the complexity of his poems and reinforced his sense of male identity and introduced a new revolution against restraint of creative writers in Pakistani society. In 1999, the Ministry of Culture, of Pakistan published his book, Gul Afshaniat-e-Iqbal (Versified Khowar Language translation of Allama Iqbal's Poetry). Chitrali is also credited with authoring Khowar and Urdu humorous poetry. These works were published by Khowar Academy in 1996.
Awards & Distinction
Among other national and international awards, he received, Tamgha-e-Chitral, Shandoor Award, Chitral Human Development Award, Rising Star Award, International Innovation Award(Germany), Innovative Initiative Award, Yasirullah Shaheed Award, Pride of the Nation Award & Gold Medal, Dr.A.Q.Khan Gold Medal & Award in 2015 from the Nazriya Pakistan Council Government of Pakistan. Rehmat Aziz Chitrali was awarded SI for Children Literature by Ministry of Education Government of Pakistan and National Book Foundation for his literary services.