Taj Haider congratulates Nain Sukh on receiving Dhahn Prize for Punjabi Literature in Canada

Islamabad: Senator Taj Haider of the Pakistan People’s Party has heartily congratulated Nain Sukh (Khalid Mahmood) on receiving the Dhahn Prize for Punjabi Literature in Canada for his book, ‘Jogi, Saap, Trah’.

In a statement Taj Haider said that in an international environment where Pakistan was facing isolation due to its wrong policies Nain Sukh has made the nation proud for being Pakistani.

Nain Sukh writes the stories of the ‘Wretched of the Earth’ in his mother language that has a more than a thousand years history of producing great literature and poetry.

Immortal “Poetry of the People” written in Punjab has for centuries captured hearts and minds of a wide spectrum of people ranging from distinguished intellectuals to the tillers of the soil and factory workers. Nain Sukh is yet another addition to this rich literary tradition, who through the characters of his novels and stories is rewriting our history from the angle of the down trodden masses and is reflecting our national culture in its true perspective.

One is reminded of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto who laid the greatest emphasis on reviving our national languages and cultures. He created cultural institutions which in a very short span of time took the richness of our culture to every corner of the world. Unfortunately, regional cultures and national languages have been considered for a very long time, a danger to our national unity by the centralist mindset of the exploiting classes. Although the fact is that nothing unites humanity as a whole better than beautiful thoughts that have their firm roots in our soil and our hearts.

Nain Sukh’s wide spectrum of writings stretches from Sufi’s like Madho Lal Husain to Comrades like Dada Amir Haider. “May be our Sufis and Comrades are the same in their true essence,” Senator Taj Haider.

He said that it was important that such books were translated in Urdu and other national and foreign languages so that the message goes far and wide that ours is a land where people have not forgotten to think, to dream and to express themselves most effectively.