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

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 – Indo-Pakistani poet (1931–2002)
• Josh Malihabadi – Indian 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 poetPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• Mohsin Naqvi – 40th Minister of Interior, Pakistan
• Mohsin Bhopali – Pakistani writer and linguistPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• 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

Feminist poets

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

Comical poets

• Anwar Masood – Pakistani poet
• Dilawar Figar – Pakistani poet
• 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)
• 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
• Sachal Sarmast – Sindhi sufi mystic and poet (1739–1827)
• Bulleh Shah – Punjabi philosopher and poet (1680–1757)
• Sultan Bahu – Punjabi poet, Sufi mystic, and scholar (1630–1691)
• 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
• 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)
• Sikander Khan Khoso
• 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 PoetPages 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

Balochi poetry

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

See also

• List of Pakistani writers