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Pakistani poetry

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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

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Feminist poets

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  • Fehmida Riaz – Pakistani writer and activist (1946–2018)

Comical poets

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English poets

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Punjabi poets

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  • 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 – 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 Punjabi-language poet (1911–1984)

Saraiki poets

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  • Khawaja Farid – 19th-century Sufi poet (c. 1845–1901)
  • 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

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Pashto poets

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

Balochi poetry

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See also

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References

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