ISLAMABAD: Renowned urdu poet Rais Amrohvi was remembered on his death anniversary on Friday.
Born on September 12, 1914, in Amroha in a notable family of scholars, his real name was Syed Muhammad Mehdi. Almost all the members of his family were poets. He migrated to Pakistan after partition and settled in Karachi. He was a noted scholar, Urdu poet and psychoanalyst of Pakistan, however, he cannot be classified as a psychoanalyst in a traditional sense, as he looked at psychology through a spiritual perspective rather than a scientific one.
He was killed on September 22, 1988 by an unknown persons in Karachi.