Pakistani poetry

Pakistan’s tradition of poetry includes Urdu poetry, English poetry, Balochi poetry,, Punjabi poetry, Sindhi poetry, Pashto poetry, Saraiki poetry, and Kashmiri poetry. Sufi poetry has a strong tradition in Pakistan ^[1] and the poetry of popular Sufi poets is often recited and sung.

Urdu poets

Main article: Urdu poetry

• Ahmad Faraz  – Pakistani poet (1931–2008)
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi  – Pakistani writer (1916-2006)
• Amjad Islam Amjad  – Pakistani poet and lyricist (1944–2023)
• Faiz Ahmed Faiz  – Pakistani poet and author (1911-1984)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Parveen Shakir  – Pakistani poet (1952–1994)
• Fehmida Riaz  – Pakistani writer and activist (1946–2018)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Habib Jalib  – Pakistani poet and political activist (1928–1993)
• Hafeez Jullundhri  – Pakistani poet (1900–1982)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Hakim Ahmad Shuja  – Pakistani Urdu and Persian poet (1893–1969)
• Iftikhar Arif  – Pakistani poet and litterateur (born 1944)
• Jaun Elia  – Pakistani poet (1931–2002)
• Jawayd Anwar  – Pakistani poet and writer (1959–2011)
• Josh Malihabadi  – Pakistani poet (1898–1982)
• Kishwar Naheed  – Pakistani writer
• Majeed Amjad  – Punjabi writer, Urdu poet (1914–1974)
• Mehmood Sham  – Pakistani journalistPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Moeen Nizami  – Pakistani poet (born 1965)
• Mohsin Naqvi (poet)  – Pakistani poet (1947-1996)
• Mohsin Bhopali
• Munir Niazi  – Pakistani poet (1923–2006)
• Nasir Kazmi  – Pakistani poet (1925–1972)
• Qateel Shifai  – Pakistani poet and lyricist (1919–2001)
• Shakeb Jalali  – Pakistani poet (1934–1966)
• Raees Warsi  – Pakistani writer
• Najeeba Arif -- Pakistani writer and poet (1964)

Feminist poets

• Fehmida Riaz  – Pakistani writer and activist (1946–2018)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets

Comical poets

• Anwar Masood  – Pakistani poet (born 1935)
• Dilawar Figar  – Pakistani poet (1929–1998)
• Zamir Jafri  – Pakistani poet (1916–1999)

English poets

• Daud Kamal  – Pakistani poet (1935–1987)
• Alamgir Hashmi  – Anglo-Pakistani poet (born 1951)
• Zulfikar Ghose  – American novelist, poet and essayist (1935–2022)
• Shahid Suhrawardy  – Bengali diplomat, poet and art critic (1890–1965)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Maki Kureishi  – Pakistani poet
• Kaleem Omar  – Pakistani writer
• Athar Tahir  – Pakistani civil servant (born 1956)

Punjabi poets

• Pir Naseer-uddin-Naseer  – Pakistani Sufi scholar and poet (1949–2009)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Bulleh Shah  – Punjabi philosopher and poet (1680–1757)
• Fariduddin Ganjshakar  – Punjabi Muslim preacher and mystic (c. 1188 – 1266)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Mian Muhammad Bakhsh  – Punjabi Sufi poet (c. 1830–1907)
• Waris Shah  – Punjabi Sufi Poet (1722–1798)
• Sultan Bahu  – Punjabi poet, Sufi mystic, and scholar (1630–1691)
• Khawaja Ghulam Farid  – 19th-century Sufi poet (c. 1845–1901)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Shah Hussain  – Punjabi Sufi poet (1538–1599)
• Ustad Daman  – Pakistani Punjabi-language poet (1911–1984)

Saraiki poets

• Khawaja Farid  – 19th-century Sufi poet (c. 1845–1901)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Qadir Bux Bedil  – 19th-century Sindhi writer and Sufi saint
• Sachal Sarmast  – Sindhi sufi mystic and poet (1739–1827)
• Shakir Shuja Abadi  – Pakistani Saraiki poet (born c. 1953)

Sindhi poets

• Adal Soomro  – Sindhi poet and academic
• Ahmad Khan Madhosh  – Sindhi language poet (1931–2010)
• Ali Gul Sangi  – Sindhi Language poet
• Bedil  – 19th-century Sindhi writer and Sufi saint
• Imdad Hussaini  – Pakistani poet (1940–2022)
• Lal Shahbaz Qalander  – Sufi saint and poet (1177–1274)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Makhdoom Ameen Fahim  – Pakistani politician
• Makhdoom Muhammad Zaman Talibul Moula  – Pakistani politician, scholar and poet
• Mir Abdul Rasool Mir  – Sindhi Language poet and educationist (1950–2019)
• Mirza Qaleech Baig  – Sindhi literature scholarPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Muhammad Mohsin Bekas  – 19th-century Sindhi Sufi poet and saint
• Muhammad Siddique Musafir  – Pakistani writer
• Parwano Bhatti  – Sindhi-language poet (1934–2016)
• Sarkash Sindhi  – Prominent poet of Sindhi language
• Sawan Faqir  – Sindhi poetPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Shah Abdul Latif  – 18th-century Sindhi Sufi writerPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Sachal Sarmast  – Sindhi sufi mystic and poet (1739–1827)
• Tajal Bewas  – Pakistani writer, teacher and government official
• Shah Inayatullah  – Sindhi Sufi saint and revolutionary (c. 1655–1718)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Shaikh Ayaz  – Sindhi language poet
• Sobhraj Nirmaldas Fani  – Indian writerPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Ustad Bukhari  – Pakistani poet (1930-1992)

Pashto poets

• Khushal Khan Khattak  – Pashtun poet, chief and warrior (1613–1689)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Rahman Baba  – Pashtun Sufi saint and poet (c. 1653–1711)
• Ameer Hamza Shinwari  – Afghan Pashto Poet (1907–1994)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Khan Abdul Ghani Khan  – Pashtun poet and philosopher (1914–1996)Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
• Ajmal Khattak  – Pakistani politician (1925–2010)

Balochi poetry

• Gul Khan Nasir  – Pakistani politician and writer (1914–1983)

References

1. Asani, Ali (1988). "Sufi Poetry in the Folk Tradition of Indo-Pakistan". Religion & Literature. 20 (1): 81–94. JSTOR   40059368.

See also

• List of Pakistani writers