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Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention, cultural names and ancestral names. In Pakistan a person is either referred by his or her Islamic name or from tribe name (if it is specified), respectively.
The most popular convention is to append the most called given name of the father to the person's given names. Often, if the person has more than one given name, his full name consists only of his given names. Another convention is to prefix the person's given name with a title, which is usually associated with his tribal ancestry.
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In Urdu, Dara is a masculine given name meaning "possessor" or "sovereign" and "halo (of the moon)". [3] It can also mean "sovereign" or "lord", a meaning shared with the Sikh language. [4] In Urdu, Dara is a short form of Darius. In African-American culture, the name Dara is of Bermudian origin, also meaning "beautiful". [5]
His readership is limited and recent social changes have further hurt his stature and there seems to be a concerted effort not to promote his poetry. His first book of free verse, Mavra, was published in 1940 and established him as a pioneering figure in 'free form' Urdu poetry. [4] He retired to England in 1973 and died in a London hospital in ...