# 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

* 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 – 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 (poet) – Pakistani poet (1947-1996)
* 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 (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)
* 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 (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

## Balochi poetry

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