Pakistani poetry
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{{Culture of Pakistan}}
Pakistan’s tradition of poetry includes Urdu poetry, English poetry, Balochi poetry,, Punjabi poetry, Sindhi poetry, Pashto poetry, Saraiki poetry, and Kashmiri poetry. Sufi poetry has a strong tradition in Pakistan{{Cite journal |last=Asani |first=Ali |date=1988 |title=Sufi Poetry in the Folk Tradition of Indo-Pakistan |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40059368 |journal=Religion & Literature |volume=20 |issue=1 |pages=81–94 |jstor=40059368}} and the poetry of popular Sufi poets is often recited and sung.
Urdu poets
{{main|Urdu poetry}}
- {{annotated link|Ahmad Faraz}}
- {{annotated link|Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi}}
- {{annotated link|Amjad Islam Amjad}}
- {{annotated link|Faiz Ahmed Faiz}}
- {{annotated link|Parveen Shakir}}
- {{annotated link|Fehmida Riaz}}
- {{annotated link|Habib Jalib}}
- {{annotated link|Hafeez Jullundhri}}
- {{annotated link|Hakim Ahmad Shuja}}
- {{annotated link|Iftikhar Arif}}
- {{annotated link|Jaun Elia}}
- {{annotated link|Jawayd Anwar}}
- {{annotated link|Josh Malihabadi}}
- {{annotated link|Kishwar Naheed}}
- {{annotated link|Majeed Amjad}}
- {{annotated link|Mehmood Sham}}
- {{annotated link|Moeen Nizami}}
- {{annotated link|Mohsin Naqvi (poet)}}
- {{annotated link|Mohsin Bhopali}}
- {{annotated link|Munir Niazi}}
- {{annotated link|Nasir Kazmi}}
- {{annotated link|Qateel Shifai}}
- {{annotated link|Shakeb Jalali}}
- {{annotated link|Raees Warsi}}
= Feminist poets =
- {{annotated link|Fehmida Riaz}}
= Comical poets =
- {{annotated link|Anwar Masood}}
- {{annotated link|Dilawar Figar}}
- {{annotated link|Zamir Jafri}}
English poets
- {{annotated link|Daud Kamal}}
- {{annotated link|Alamgir Hashmi}}
- {{annotated link|Zulfikar Ghose}}
- {{annotated link|Shahid Suhrawardy}}
- {{annotated link|Maki Kureishi}}
- {{annotated link|Kaleem Omar}}
- {{annotated link|Athar Tahir}}
Punjabi poets
- {{annotated link|Pir Naseer-uddin-Naseer}}
- {{annotated link|Bulleh Shah}}
- {{annotated link|Fariduddin Ganjshakar}}
- {{annotated link|Mian Muhammad Bakhsh}}
- {{annotated link|Waris Shah}}
- {{annotated link|Sultan Bahu}}
- {{annotated link|Khawaja Ghulam Farid}}
- {{annotated link|Shah Hussain}}
- {{annotated link|Ustad Daman}}
Saraiki poets
- {{annotated link|Khawaja Farid}}
- {{annotated link|Qadir Bux Bedil}}
- {{annotated link|Sachal Sarmast}}
- {{annotated link|Shakir Shuja Abadi}}
Sindhi poets
- {{annotated link|Adal Soomro}}
- {{annotated link|Ahmad Khan Madhosh}}
- {{annotated link|Ali Gul Sangi}}
- {{annotated link|Qadir Bux Bedil|Bedil}}
- {{annotated link|Imdad Hussaini}}
- {{annotated link|Lal Shahbaz Qalander}}
- {{annotated link|Ameen Faheem|Makhdoom Ameen Fahim}}
- {{annotated link|Makhdoom Muhammad Zaman Talibul Moula}}
- {{annotated link|Mir Abdul Rasool Mir}}
- {{annotated link|Mirza Kalich Beg|Mirza Qaleech Baig}}
- {{annotated link|Muhammad Mohsin Bekas}}
- {{annotated link|Muhammad Siddique Musafir}}
- {{annotated link|Parwano Bhatti}}
- {{annotated link|Sarkash Sindhi}}
- {{annotated link|Sawan Faqir}}
- {{annotated link|Shah Abdul Latif}}
- {{annotated link|Sachal Sarmast}}
- {{annotated link|Tajal Bewas}}
- {{annotated link|Shah Inayatullah}}
- {{annotated link|Shaikh Ayaz}}
- {{annotated link|Sobhraj Nirmaldas Fani}}
- {{annotated link|Ustad Bukhari}}
Pashto poets
- {{annotated link|Khushal Khan Khattak}}
- {{annotated link|Rahman Baba}}
- {{annotated link|Ameer Hamza Shinwari}}
- {{annotated link|Khan Abdul Ghani Khan}}
- {{annotated link|Ajmal Khattak}}
Balochi poetry
- {{annotated link|Gul Khan Nasir}}
References
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See also
{{Poetry of different cultures and languages}}
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