1. Habib Jalib (1928)

Pakistani Poet

Poet and revolutionary who spoke out against oppression and martial law in Pakistan. His poetry collections include Sir-e-Maqtal, Harf-e-Haqq, and Gumbad-e-Bedar.

2. Jazib Qureshi (1940)

Pakistani Poet

Writer famous for his work as a poet and critic. He has written over ten famous poem books as well as several books about literary criticism. 

3. Omer Tarin (1966)

Pakistani Poet

Scholar, activist, and poet who wrote in the English language and was deeply influenced by Sufi and Bhakti poets. His best-known works include Riverbeds Flowing, The Anvil of Dreams, and...

4. Aftab Iqbal Shamim (1936)

Pakistani Poet

Aftab Iqbal Shamim is an Urdu language poet. Aftab Iqbal Shamim had served as a professor of English literature and language for 33 years at Gordon College Rawalpindi Pakistan....

5. Adal Soomro (Unknow)

Pakistani Poet

Adal Soomro was born on 15 August 1955 in the home of Mohammad Saleh Soomro. He is famous poet of Sindhi language. His birth name is Abdul Karim Soomro but...

6. Khatir Afridi (Unknow)

Pakistani Poet

Khatir Afridi was born as Misree Khan in 1929 at Landi Kotal Federally Administered Tribal Areas Pakistan near the border of Afghanistan and died on August 24 1961. Misree Khan...

7. Qateel Shifai (1919)

Pakistani Poet

Aurangzeb Khan or Qateel Shifai was a Pakistani Urdu poet.

8. Qayyum Nazar (Unknow)

Pakistani Poet

Qayyum Nazar was a prominent Urdu Language poet from Pakistan. Along with fellow Urdu poets Meeraji and Noon Meem Rashid Nazar was a member of the Pakistani literary circle Halqa-e...

9. Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jullundhri (1900)

Pakistani Poet

Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jullundhri was a Pakistani Urdu-language poet who wrote the lyrics for the National Anthem of Pakistan.

10. Akhtar Sheerani (1905)

Pakistani Poet

Akhtar Shirani is considered one of the leading romantic poets of Urdu. Early LifeAkhtar Shairani was born as Muhammad Dawood Khan to the Aghani tribe Shirani tribe which had...

11. Khan Abdul Ghani Khan (Unknow)

Pakistani Poet

Ghani Khan ‎ is widely considered as one of the best Pashto language poets of the 20th century on a par with his contemporaneous Pashto poet Ameer Hamza Shinwari. Ghani...

12. Syed Wasi Shah (1976)

Pakistani Poet

Syed Wasi Shah is a Pakistani Urdu poet dramatist columnist writer anchor and occasional actor. Wasi started his career by acting in his own-scripted serial he left acting in order...

13. Nasir Kazmi (1925)

Pakistani Poet

Syed Nasir Raza Kazmi was an Urdu poet from Pakistan and one of the renowned poets of this era especially in the use of ista'aaray and chhotee beher. Kazmi...

14. Khalid Ahmad (1943)

Pakistani Poet

Khalid Ahmad was a Pakistani Urdu poet and journalist.

15. Tahir Adeem (1973)

Pakistani Poet

Tahir Adeem is an Urdu poet in Germany.

16. Khurshid Rizvi (Unknow)

Pakistani Poet

Khurshid Rizvi is a Pakistani scholar poet linguist and historian of Arabic languages and literature. He is an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the...

17. Khawaja Shahudin (1867)

Pakistani Poet

Khawaja Shahudin was a Sufi poet of Punjabi. He was a follower of the Sufi Order Sarwari Qadiri and was a disciple of Syed Asghar Ali Shah of Artala...

18. Daud Kamal (1935)

Pakistani Poet

Daud Kamal 4 January 1935 - 5 December 1987) was a Professor of English Literature at University of Peshawar Pakistan. He was educated at Cambridge University UK. Kamal started writing...

19. Muzaffar Warsi (1933)

Pakistani Poet

Muzaffar Warsi was a prominent Urdu poet critic essayist a lyricist par excellence and scholar of Pakistan. He was one whose work never fails to surprise. A humble man...

20. Rais Amrohvi (Unknow)

Pakistani Poet

Syed Muhammad Mehdi known as Rais Amrohvi was an acclaimed scholar Urdu poet and psychoanalyst from Pakistan. He was born on 12 September 1914 in Amroha India in a...

21. Shakeb Jalali (1934)

Pakistani Poet

Shakeeb Jalali was a Pakistani Urdu poet. Shakeb Jalali's real name was Syed Hassan Rizvi. His ancestors were from a small town Saddat Jalali near Aligarh India. Ahmed Nadeem...

22. Shabnam Romani (1928)

Pakistani Poet

Mirza Azeem Baig Chughtai known in literary circles by his pen name Shabnam Romani was a renowned Urdu poet based in Karachi Pakistan. Shabnam Romani wrote a number of books...

23. Asghar Sodai (1926)

Pakistani Poet

Professor Asghr Sodai was a famous educationist and Urdu poet born at Sialkot. Pakistan ka matlab kiya? la ilaha Ilallah was coined by him in 1944 in his immortal Tarana-e-Pakistan...

24. Allah Baksh Sarshar Uqaili (1907)

Pakistani Poet

Allah Baksh Sarshar 'Uqaili was a Sufi poet from the Sindh province of Pakistan.

25. Sami (poet) (Unknow)

Pakistani Poet

Chainrai Bachomal Dattaramani Sami was a disinguished poet who merged the Vedic wisdom in his Sindhi Shlokas in Beit form.

26. Danial Tareer (1980)

Pakistani Poet

Danial Tareer is a Pakistani poet who writes Urdu lyrical poetry.

27. Khurshid Anwar Jilani (1904)

Pakistani Poet

Khurshid Anwar Jilani an attorney author poet radio talk show writer and philanthropist.