Pakistani poetry

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

Urdu poets

Feminist poets

  • Fehmida Riaz – Pakistani Urdu writer, poet, feminist (1946-2018)

Comical poets

  • Anwar Masood – Pakistani poet
  • Dilawar Figar – Pakistani poet
  • Zamir Jafri – Blogger

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)
  • Maki Kureishi – Pakistani poet
  • Kaleem Omar – Pakistani writer
  • Athar Tahir – Pakistani civil servant (born 1956)

Punjabi poets

Saraiki poets

  • Khawaja Farid – 19th-century Sufi Punjabi poet and writer
  • Sachal Sarmast – Sindhi sufi mystic and poet (1739–1827)
  • Bulleh Shah – 18th-century Punjabi philosopher and poet
  • Sultan Bahu – Punjabi Sufi mystic, poet and scholar (1630–1691)
  • Shakir Shuja Abadi – Pakistani Saraiki poet (born c. 1953)

Sindhi poets

Pashto poets

  • Khushal Khan Khattak – Afghan poet and tribal chief (1613–1689)
  • Rahman Baba – Pashtun Sufi saint and poet (1653–1711)
  • Ameer Hamza Shinwari – Pakistani Pashto and Urdu language poet
  • Khan Abdul Ghani Khan – Pashtun poet
  • Ajmal Khattak – Pakistani politician

Balochi poetry

See also

References


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