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[edit]

Feminist poets[edit]

  • Fehmida Riaz – Pakistani Urdu writer, poet, feminist (1946-2018)

Comical poets[edit]

English poets[edit]

Punjabi poets[edit]

  • Pir Naseer-uddin-Naseer – Pakistani Sufi scholar and poet (1949–2009)
  • Bulleh Shah – Punjabi philosopher and poet (c. 1680–1757)
  • Fariduddin Ganjshakar – Punjabi Muslim preacher and mystic (c. 1188 – 1266)
  • Mian Muhammad Bakhsh – 19th-century Punjabi Sufi poet (c. 1830–1907)
  • Waris Shah – Punjabi Sufi Poet (1722–1798)
  • Sultan Bahu – Punjabi Sufi mystic, poet and scholar (1630–1691)
  • Shah Hussain – Punjabi Sufi poet (1538–1599)
  • Ustad Daman – Pakistani poet (1911 - 1984)

Saraiki poets[edit]

  • Khawaja Farid – 19th-century Sufi poet (c. 1841–1901)
  • Sachal Sarmast – Sindhi sufi mystic and poet (1739–1827)
  • Bulleh Shah – Punjabi philosopher and poet (c. 1680–1757)
  • Sultan Bahu – Punjabi Sufi mystic, poet and scholar (1630–1691)
  • Shakir Shuja Abadi – Pakistani Saraiki poet (born c. 1953)

Sindhi poets[edit]

Pashto poets[edit]

  • Khushal Khan Khattak – Pashtun poet and tribal chief (1613–1689)
  • Rahman Baba – Pashtun Sufi saint and poet (c. 1653–1711)
  • Ameer Hamza Shinwari – Pakistani Pashto and Urdu language poet
  • Khan Abdul Ghani Khan – Pakistani Pashto language poet (c. 1914– 1996)
  • Ajmal Khattak – Pakistani politician

Balochi poetry[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]