Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s iconic poem Hum Dekhenge alleged anti-Hindu. A probe committee was set up by IIT-Kanpur after a complaint over students reciting the poem before a solidarity march in the institute on December 17, for their counterparts at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia university. Faiz Ahmad Faiz, the Urdu poet from Pakistan’s Sialkot – a communist and atheist – was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1963. He used religious metaphors in his poetry to attack the establishment. He wrote Hum Dekhenge… (We will see) – one of his best remembered compositions in New York in 1979. It was a mark of protest against Pakistani dictator Zia-ul-Haq, who declared himself the President of the country after overthrowing the Zulfikar Ali Bhutto government. In 1986, the song assumed an iconic status after Pakistani singer Iqbal Bano sung the poem of defiance against the martial law in Lahore in front of a 50,000-plus crowd.

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