345:)'s (she is an Urdu poet) Samina Raja had been awarded for two awards β Prime Minister Award and Writers Award β but she refused to accept them citing nomination of undeserving people along with her. Many a times she refused to participate in literary events where chief guests were those who had nothing to do with literature,β Samina Raja demonstrated work by many unique techniques (ideas) of writing. One of her (ambition) was to translate the Quran in urdu and convert the urdu translation into poetry, which was never done by anyone in the world. She started her project without knowing that this will be the last project of her life, just before getting ill, she started with "surah e baqarah" and kept on going, she wanted to complete and publish but couldn't finish.
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