OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Halqa Arab-e-Zauq organised a special sitting in connection with birthday anniversary of famous poet Majeed Amjad at Aiwan-e-Iqbal on Sunday. The sitting was presided over by Dr Khawaja Mohammad Zikria while Ali Mohammad Farshi was the chief guest on the occasion. Speakers including Abdul Rashid, Shanawar Ishaque, Tauqir Abbas, Ehtisham Ali and others presented their papers on poetry and personality of Majeed Amjad. The speakers said he was one of the greatest poets of modern Urdu in Pakistan. They said though he was not widely read as Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Noon Meem Rashid, Nasir Kazmi and Meera Ji but amongst the critics he was widely regarded as a philosophical poet of great depth and sensitivity. Majeed Amjad was born on June 29th, 1914 in Jhang. He passed his matriculation exam in first division from Islamia High School, Jhang. Two years later, he completed his Intermediate exam, also in first division from Government College, Jhang. He moved to Lahore and received his Bachelors degree in 1934 from Islamia College Railway Road. He joined Food Department. He married one of his cousins in 1939. His wife was an elementary school teacher. He breathed his last on May 11, 1974. The first collection of his poetry, Shab-e-Rafta, was published in 1958.