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 – Pakistani 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 (born 1935)
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 (1925–2010)