THIS is with reference to the article `Two nations` (Feb 16) which left me rather astonished with its quotation of a poem supposedly by the iconic Amjad Islam Amjad, titled The Wind Cannot Read.

The writer is apparently unaware that this is actually an unattributed Japanese poem which reads: Though on the sign it is written `Do not pluck these blossoms`, it is useless against the wind which cannot read. Maybe it is a kaiku, as the article suggests, but it is Japanese.Some of the readers would surely know of the 1958 film with the same title, based on a novel by Richard Mason and starring Dirk Bogarde. It is a touching story of a romance between a British officer and a Japanese woman during World War II.

Is it really possible that Amjad Sahib wrote, and claimed as his own, the Japanese poem, The Wind Cannot Read? Hasan Pervez Karachi