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Pakistan has a rich and diverse tradition of poetry that includes Urdu poetry, English language 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.

Persian poetry is still common in Pakistan as a literary vehicle because of the centuries of Persian influence on the region. Many sufi poets wrote their Kalam in Persian. Pakistan's national poet Allama Mohammad Iqbal also wrote many volumes of poetry in Persian.

Poetry is widely read across Pakistan. Gatherings for the recitations of poetry known as Mushaira frequently take place. Verses of popular poets are also used as political slogans by political activists. The national poet of Pakistan is Muhammad Iqbal.

Poets by language[]

Urdu poetry[]

Main article: Urdu poetry

Ahmad Faraz
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
Amjad Islam Amjad
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Ahmed Faraz
Parveen Shakir
Tanwir Phool
Fehmida Riaz
Habib Jalib
Hafeez Jullundhri
Iftikhar Arif
Imran Azam Raza
John Elia
Josh Malihabadi
Kishwar Naheed
Majeed Amjad
Mehmood Sham
Mohsin Naqvi
Mohsin Bhopali
Munir Niazi
Nasir Kazmi
Qateel Shifai
Qayyum Nasir
Shakeb Jalali
Raees Warsi
Syed Ishtiaq Hussain Kazmi
Shafiq Ahmad Khan

English poetry[]

Main article: List of Pakistani poets writing in English

Punjabi poetry[]

Bulleh Shah
Fariduddin Ganjshakar
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
Waris Shah
Sultan Bahu
Shah Hussain
Ustad Daman

Saraiki poetry[]

Khawaja Farid
Sachal Sarmast
Bulleh Shah
Sultan Bahu
Shakir Shuja Abadi

Sindhi poetry[]

Shah Abdul Latif
Sachal Sarmast
Lal Shahbaz Qalander
Shah Inayatullah
Shaikh Ayaz

Pashto poetry[]

Khushal Khan Khattak
Rahman Baba
Ameer Hamza Shinwari
Khan Abdul Ghani Khan
Ajmal Khattak