Poets/Writers From Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Total: 83
Ahmad Faraz
Widely celebrated and sung Urdu poet. Rose to iconic stature through his seductively romantic and anti-establishment poetry
Patras Bukhari
Patras Bokhari was an Urdu humourist, educator, essayist, broadcaster and diplomat from Pakistan. He is best known for his humorous writings in Urdu literature.
Khatir Ghaznavi
Famous for his ghazal 'Go zara si baaat par barson ke yaraane gai.' sung by many singers.
Qateel Shifai
One of the most popular poets ever and film lyricist. Famous for his ghazal 'Garmi-e-hasrat-e-nakaam se jal jate hain'.
- Domicile : Hazara
Farigh Bukhari
Fazil Jamili
- Born : Pind khan Khel
- Domicile : Karachi
Prominent poet and journalist who has also been associated with television channel.
Ghulam Mohammad Qasir
- Born : Paharpur
- Domicile : Dera Ismail khan
Considered to be one of the finest modern poets from Pakistan.
- Born : Dera Ismail khan
- Domicile : Jabalpur
Known for his role in Independence struggle, Urdu academics and literature
Khurshid Rabbani
- Born : Dera Ismail khan
Mohsin Ehsan
Prominent poet of New Ghazal in Pakistan
Muneer Ahmad Firdaus
- Born : Dera Ismail khan
- Domicile : Dera Ismail khan
Partav Rohila
- Born : Rohilkhand
- Domicile : Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Poet, Researcher and Translator/Known for Urdu translation of Ghalib’s Persian letters.
Raza Hamdani
- Born : Dera Ismail khan
Syed Aabid Ali Aabid
- Born : Dera Ismail khan
- Domicile : Lahore
- Died : Lahore
One of the most prominent critics from Pakistan
Syed Abdullah
Zulfiqar Ali Bukhari
Ateeq Ahmad
- Born : Dera Ismail khan
- Domicile : Karachi
- Born : Abbottabad
- Domicile : USA
Mehmood Rashid
- Born : Hazara
- Domicile : United Kingdom
Saeed Ahmad Akhtar
- Born : Pishin
- Domicile : Dera Ismail khan
Shariq Jamal
- Domicile : Peshawar
Syed Ahsan Javed
Azeez Adil
Dr. Ayyub Sabir
- Born : Abbottabad
- Domicile : Abbottabad
- Died : Abbottabad
Indira Varma
- Born : Dera Ismail khan
- Domicile : Karachi
Latif Shah Shahid
M. Usman Shakir
- Born : Abbottabad
- Domicile : Austria
Mazhar Husain Syed
- Born : Haripur
- Domicile : Rawalpindi
Mohammad Musa
Narjis Afroz Zaidi
Niaz Sawati
Rahil Bukhari
- Born : Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Domicile : Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Sayeed Ashar
- Born : Haripur
- Domicile : Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Shah Room Khan wali
Syed Qais Raza
- Born : Dera Ismail khan
- Domicile : Dera Ismail khan
Zahid Khan
- Born : Dera Ismail khan
- Domicile : Dera Ismail khan
Aabid Peshawari
Abdul Majeed Afghani
Aftab Khan
Afzal Hazarvi
Ali Muzammil
- Born : Dera Ismail khan
- Domicile : Karachi
Aqeel Shah
- Born : Kohat
- Domicile : Rawalpindi
Ayub Sabir
Azam Tariq Kohistani
- Born : Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Domicile : Karachi