Model Town Park Lahore, which was a daily routine for me and my husband Imtiaz Kazmi, I miss it vividly, because Imtiaz bypassed us for a while. This park is very beautiful, covered with a blanket of deep green, beds full of colorful flowers on the ground, colorful butterflies flying on the flowers and thick shade trees and birds sitting on these trees speaking sweet dialects and between the park and the lake filled with water and In it, children driving boats and swimming ducks and beautiful birds picking grains around them and blue and green peacocks dancing in the distance, I remember fondly and the people I met during my walk. Who are walking on the jogging track asking about each other’s condition. Especially an uncle who is very elderly. We treat both of them with great kindness and enjoy their oral Punjabi poetry. In second place is a lady Doctor Sahiba who regularly walks with her doctor father Grami. Are book lovers. By the way, he has no friends in the park. I like very much. Among the regular walkers in the park is Tarar Sahib, whose full name is particularly difficult. That’s why I call him Tarar Sahib. They are also often seen traveling in groups. I love his travelogs and columns, but the strange thing is that he talks in Punjabi, but writes in Urdu. However, the park is beautiful.
At one time he was barred from entering the park because he wrote a column entitled “Mukhrib-e-Akhlaq Baba” on the experienced, intelligent Fatin, the precious seniors living a retired life. Usman Pirzada wearing black glasses is also seen walking in this park. Often they are giving autographs to someone with a cup of tea in their hands, but they rarely walk. Legendary actor Muhammad Qavi Khan also visits the same park for a morning walk. They walk fast on the track. The elder does not look like Qavi Khan, but looks quite young. They are particularly fat. Greetings are often received from them. Then Shahid Bukhari, whose name I take with great respect. They also don’t get tired of calling me sister. This park has splendor and is adorned with literary gatherings. After him is Manfeat Abbas Rizvi Sahib, who is often met at home as well as in the park. Manfeat Bhai’s poetry is less in my understanding, but I understand Imtiaz well. Barons are personalities, wherever they go and in the gatherings they are present. Makes it a mess. He is also very interested in music and plays various instruments very skillfully. Manfeat Sahib Hassan Rizvi is the younger brother of the deceased. Nasir Zaidi Sahib is also among the regular visitors to this park. In this relationship, my maternal uncle seems to be Johnny. Walk less and are seen drinking tea at the park canteen and commenting on the current situation. Very beautiful, fair-haired, with long white hair, dressed in white clothes, books in one hand and a cane in the other, they are present in the park. Sometimes they call the cane “Mosavi’s cane” and sometimes Allama Iqbal’s cane. The stanza repeats that
If you don’t have a staff, you are a baseless car
Garden and spring are the owners of personality. It is popular among children and adults alike. The king is expensive. In fact, he is a poet of the young generation. He has no second hand in catching prose, poetry and literary mistakes of creators. His circle of friends [including women] is very wide. So loneliness does not come close to them. Knowledge is friends. Ghazal, Nazm, Manqbat, Naat and column writing, that is, there are heroes of every field. An uncle is a resident of Jomadal Town. He is an engineer by profession. They also meet often. He is a very good and sophisticated person. Apart from him Mr. Asim Bukhari who holds a prominent position among the senior actors. Often seen in the Model Town Park in the style of “Aashta Beh Khoram Nazari Makhram” Apart from this, the fairs of women and the various groups of men sitting on colorful chairs are also the charm of this park. Somewhere far away boys and girls who comment on unknown issues and seem engrossed in dreams of brightening the future, spend hours in this park. In the same park, Prof. Imtiaz also organizes a discussion on a specific topic at 7:30 a.m. on Sundays and invites a specific thinker, professor or intellectual personality as a speaker and delivers a speech on a specific topic. After the speech, there is a question-and-answer period, and during the event, food and drink continues.
Often Nasir Zaidi is also controlled for the presidency. A slim, shalwar-kameez-clad gentleman from Model Town carries pills and coffee in his pocket and distributes them to the crowd at the event, which boosts those with “low sugar levels.” is Entering the main gate of the park, on the left, a gentleman who is blind (but according to me, he is rich in vision) is seen sitting with a board of “weighing” in front of him. This gentleman has been coming here for a long time. Perhaps this is the reason why he does not feel the need of any support while walking in this vast park. Another gentleman is also the charm of this park. His age will be more than seventy years. He is a retired teacher. They are seen running all the time on the park’s trails and tracks with a small water bottle in hand. Even at this age, his enthusiasm towards jogging is admirable. Perhaps this is the reason why he also won a position in a marathon race held at Gaddafi Stadium.
Finally, this column will feel incomplete if I do not mention the son-in-law of Faiz Ahmad Faiz Sahib i.e. Umair Hashmi Sahib. They are often seen sitting on benches or jogging along with Nasir Zaidi. Similarly, various mill owners, advocates, bankers, professors and people of every school of thought visit here in large numbers and with great regularity. May Allah keep the splendor of Model Town Park alive. This heavenly region where all visitors seem to be part of the same family. May Allah comfort each other. Keep the gatherings here. Imtiaz Kazmi Sahib that he himself is not almost, but certainly a good poet. They are very sophisticated people, happy to talk. I Love reading more than writing poetry. One of his poems which he wrote while sitting in the same park. I vow to you.
