Announcement” on page 47 and “Heavenly People of hell” on page 161, touched my heart and brain because it fits the present time of mankind … who found busy in state of warfare. … Ilyse Drost’
(Bridging The Gaps/Nazish Zafar/P: 83-84)
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‘HUNDREDS OF FACES = to follow ill send you the rest.. a good poem showing your way of making friends for satisfying your soul which is based of the desires making you a social activist and searcher for good faces and people as well.
Mr. Afzal Shauq, I will be criticizing your whole poems in the same way to let you know what you did? and what’s the value of your thoughts and themes of life?….Luisita Palao’
(Bridging The Gaps/Nazish Zafar/P: 85-86)
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‘The themes of Afzal’s poetry are not as easy to interpret as the words he uses for expression. He speaks in easy way but keeps presenting the ideas in a philosophical way , which may keep the readers think of seriously.
His approach is a realistic in deed… pointing out the men… Its behavior and its relations towards WHO CREATES THEM … Ernanie I. Pepito’
. (Bridging The Gaps/Nazish Zafar/P: 87)
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‘Our situation is the same and I dream for the past of my country. And your poems make me cry and realize that as I am also a scary soul of animal world. Always people are dying for nothing. Same like in your country Afghanistan , had been happening since decades but for what and who does? This is a question as you mentioned in few of your verses…. Dr. Warkaa Saad’
. (Bridging The Gaps/Nazish Zafar/P: 88)