List of Pakistani writers

Muhammad Iqbal, the national poet of Pakistan

Ahmad Faraz, an Urdu poet

Bapsi Sidhwa, an English-language fiction writer

Shaikh Ayaz, a Sindhi poet

Ali Moeen, a dramatist and lyricist

Zaib-un-nissa Hamidullah, a pioneer in women's literature in Pakistan

Amrita Pritam, a Punjabi writer

This is a list of writers from Pakistan. It is only partly complete. It includes writers of both fiction and non-fiction, writing in any language.

A

• Agha Shorish Kashmiri
• Ahmad Ali
• Ahmad Faraz, Urdu poet
• Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi
• Akhtar Raza Saleemi
• Aijaz Ahmad Mangi
• Alamgir Hashmi, poet
• Alauddin Masood
• Altaf Fatima
• Ali Moeen
• Altaf Gauhar
• Amar Jaleel
• Amjad Islam Amjad
• Amjad Parvez
• Anna Molka Ahmed, poet
• Anwar Maqsood
• Anwaar Ahmad
• Anwer Zahidi
• Ashfaq Ahmed
• Arshad Sharif
• Ata ul Haq Qasmi

B

• Bano Qudsia
• Bapsi Sidhwa, fiction writer
• Bina Shah, fiction writer
• Bushra Rahman

C

• Chaudhry Afzal Haq
• Colonel Muhammad Khan

D

• Daud Kamal, poet

E

• Ehsan Sehgal

F

• Faiz Ahmad Faiz
• Farooq Qaiser
• Fatima Surayya Bajia
• Muhammad Farooq
• Fatima Bhutto
• Farman Fatehpuri

G

• Ghazala Rafi
• Ghulam Muhammad Qasir

H

• Hajra Masroor
• Hakim Ahmad Shuja
• Hakim Said
• Hina Faisal Imam, poet

I

• Ibn-e-Insha
• Idris Azad
• Iftikhar Arif
• Ihsan Danish
• Imdad Hussaini
• Imtiaz Ali Taj
• Intizar Hussain
• Ishtiaq Ahmed
• Ibn-e-Safi
• Israr Ahmed

J

• Javed Chaudhry
• Janbaz Mirza
• Jazib Qureshi
• Javed Ahmad Ghamidi
• Jocelyn Orc-Saeed

K

• Khadija Mastoor
• Khalid Hussein
• Kaleem Omar, poet
• Kamila Shamsie, fiction writer
• Khakan Sajid
• Kishwar Naheed

M

• Mahmood Shaam
• Maki Kureishi, poet
• Masood Ashraf Raja
• Mazhar ul Islam
• Mohammed Hanif, fiction writer
• Muhammad Iqbal, National poet of Pakistan
• Muhammad Asad
• Muhammad Taqi Usmani
• Mohsin Bhopali
• Mohsin Hamid, fiction writer
• Muhammad Asim Butt
• Muhammad Munawwar Mirza
• Muhammad Umar Memon
• Mumtaz Mufti
• Muneeza Shamsie
• Muniruddin Ahmed
• Musharraf Ali Farooqi
• Muhammad Hamza Saeed Bhatti
• Mustansar Hussain Tarar
• Mushtaq Ahmed Yousfi
• M. Athar Tahir

N

• Nadeem Aslam, fiction writer
• Najam Hussain Syed
• Naseem Hijazi
• Nasir Kazmi

O

• Allama Kaukab Noorani Okarvi
• Omer Tarin, poet
• Osman Khalid Butt

P

• Patras Bokhari
• Partawi Shah

Q

• Qudrat Ullah Shahab
• Qurat-ul-Ain Haider

R

• Raees Warsi
• Rahim Gul
• Rasheed Ahmed Siddique
• Rasheed Hasrat

S

• Saadat Hasan Manto
• Saeed Rashid
• Sarfraz Manzoor
• Shaikh Ayaz
• Shaukat Siddiqui
• Shaukat Thanvi
• Shafiq-ur-Rehman
• Sheikh fasih uddin

T

• Tanwir Phool
• Tariq Ismail Sagar
• Tahir Alauddin
• Tahir Naqvi
• Tariq Rahman
• Taufiq Rafat, Poet

U

• Umera Ahmed
• Usman Peerzada

W

• Waqas Ahmad Khwaja, Poet
• Wasif Ali Wasif
• Wazir Agha

Z

• Zaib-un-nissa Hamidullah
• Zulfikar Ghose, fiction writer
• Zulkaif Riaz
• Zafar Mairaj

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