Poets/Writers From Pakistan
Total: 421
Faiz Ahmad Faiz
1911 - 1984
One of the most celebrated and popular poets. Faced political repression for his revolutionary views.
Hakeem Nasir
1947 - 2007
- Domicile : Karachi
Aabid Barelvi
1942 - 2008
Aarif Abdul Mateen
1923 - 2001
Aarzu Lakhnavi
1873 - 1951
- Shrine : Karachi
Aasi Karnali
1927 - 2011
Aatish Bahawalpuri
1915
- Born : Muzaffargarh
- Domicile : Muzaffargarh
Aazam Chishti
1921 - 1993
Abbas Tabish
1961
Abdul Hameed Adam
1910 - 1981
- Born : Gujranwala
- Domicile : Lahore
- Shrine : Lahore
Abdul Hamid Badayuni
1900 - 1970
- Domicile : Lahore
Abdul Majeed Salik
1894 - 1959
- Domicile : Pakistan
Abdul Rahman Sufi
1748 - 1806
- Born : Balochistan
- Domicile : Lucknow
- Shrine : Lucknow
Abdul Salaam Gul Hassan
1909 - 1989
Abdul Sattar Niazi
1938 - 2002
- Born : Punjab
- Domicile : Faisalabad
- Shrine : Faisalabad
Abida Parveen
1954
Abr Shah Warsi
1901 - 1963
Abul Farj Adna
1091
Adeeb Kakvi
1969
Adeeb Raipuri
1928 - 2004
Adeeb Saharanpuri
1920 - 1963
- Born : Saharanpur
- Domicile : Karachi
- Shrine : Karachi
Pre-modern poet, known for blending the best of the classical and the modernist
Afsar Mahpuri
1918 - 1995
Afsar Siddiqui Amrohvi
1896 - 1984
- Shrine : Karachi
Agha Shorish Kashmiri
1917 - 1975
Ahmad Faraz
1931 - 2008
- Born : Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Domicile : Islamabad
- Shrine : Islamabad
Pakistani poet, only second to Faiz Ahmad Faiz in popularity. Rose to iconic stature powered by his seductively romantic and anti-establishment poetry.
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
1916 - 2006
- Born : Rawalpindi
- Domicile : Germany
Ahmed Yaar Khan Naeemi
1904 - 1971
Aiyub Ali Razvi
1970
Akhtar Aligarhi
1893 - 1958
- Domicile : Karachi
Akhtar Shirani
1905 - 1948
Ali Haidar Multani
1690 - 1785
- Domicile : Kazia
- Shrine : Toba Tek Singh
Allama Iqbal
1877 - 1938
- Born : Pakistan
Altaf Mashhadi
1914 - 1981
Revolutionary, romantic poet, playwright & lyricist, known for his poem ‘Jhoom ke Utho watan aazad karne ke liye’
Amanat Ali Nizami
1901 - 1971
Ambar Warsi
1906 - 1993
- Domicile : Karachi
Ameer Bakhsh Sabri
1916
- Born : Bulandshahar
- Domicile : Lahore
- Shrine : Lahore
- Domicile : Lahore
