Fifth Grader Pakistani Girl’s English Poetry Collection Published

Zala Ejaz doesn’t write poems if her father gives an idea because she thinks that she has enough ideas of her own. The class five student at the Siddeeq Public School has so far written around 50 poems out of which the National Book Foundation published 35 in February. When Zala was eight-year-old, she was playing with her brother when all of a sudden some sentences in English floated in her mind. It’s not that Zala just writes poems, she is also a good painter. She was awarded Rs5,000 special prize when her painting …