Selected Poems of Iqbal

Iqbal is a successor in a long line of Persian and Urdu poets of Iran and the Subcontinent, culminating in Ghalib. Iqbal wrote his poetry in Urdu and Persian, using the finest phraseology and traditions of the two Indo-Iranian languages.
Iqbal was the poet of the 20th century, yet his poetry bridged and encompassed the past many centuries of man's endeavours in the realm of thought and intuition. In his poetry there is a wholesome fusion of the physical and the metaphysical, a mutually inclusive combination of the material and the moral.
Iqbal's poetry transcends time and space; it is difficult to draw a line between the earthly and the heavenly.

Khawaja Tariq Mahmood, born in 1927, at Chakwal, graduated in engineering from the Punjab University in 1947. He was commissioned in January 1948 in the Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Pakistan Army, and retried as Brigadier in 1979.
He graduated from Staff College, Quetta in 1956 and from Royal Military college of Science, UK in 1960-61. He took his law degree in 1977 from the Punjab University and Masters Degree in International Relations in 1985 from the University of Southern California, USA.