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By Zaib Azkaar Hussain (Pakistan News & Features Services) A renowned British primatologist and researcher, Jane Goodall, is of the view that the disregard for nature and disrespect for animals on the part of humanity caused coronavirus pandemic. She warns that the world must learn from past mistakes to prevent future disasters. She holds that everyone should think about the consequences of little choices and in this way everyone can make an impact every single day.  She suggests "So what we can do in our individual lives does depend a little bit on who we are, but we all can make a difference, everybody can."  Here comes a promising poet and writer, Kamran Mughal, who in his recent Urdu prose poem, has portrayed the 'agony of a sparrow' under the title of "Churria ki faryaad'.  He is not only an emerging poet but also a well-known journalist, presenter and social worker.  When he recited his prose poem at an online literary meeting of Halqaa-e Arbaab-e Z...

By Zaib Azkaar Hussain (Pakistan News & Features Services)  The online literary meetings of the Halqaa-e Arbaab-e Zaqu (HAZ), Karachi, have been gaining popularity among writers and scholars of different countries.  These meetings are essentially being arranged through 'Zoom Cloud video conference' and attended not only but local writers but are also being joined by scholars, writers and poets from different parts of the country and different cities of foreign countries.  A recent weekly sitting discussed creations of three writers who joined the meeting by online appearance and the participants including, the president of the meeting and other guests, brought to light the qualities and shortcomings through online appearances.  The HAZ's separate meetings also discuss the books and collections of other creative works by numerous writers, journalists and photographers, playwrights, directors, artistes and directors.  The HAZ has arranged traditional sittings ...

By Zaib Azkaar Hussain (Pakistan News & Features Services) The Halqaa-e Arbaab-e Zauq (HAZ), Karachi, created history of sorts by holding its first-ever online literary sitting in which writers from across the country discussed at length Urdu creations of three writers.  The Zoom Cloud video conference was prompted by the ongoing Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in which social distancing is strongly discouraged.  The participants observed that the ‘Coronavirus factor' had compelled them not to hold a gathering but the tools of modern information technology provided them a good opportunity to hold an online literary meeting.  Famous writer Shaguftta Shafeeq, who presided over the meeting, titled a 'tanqeedi nashist’ remarked that the HAZ Karachi had done a great job to hold an online gathering to discuss latest creations of three writers that included Sarah Mehboob, Naaz Arif Naaz and Mutriba Shaikh.  She further said that Sarah Mahboob presente...