List of Pakistani writers

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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