Poets/Writers From Rawalpindi
Total: 14
Afzal Minhas
1923 - 1997
- Born : Chakwal
- Domicile : Rawalpindi
- Died : Rawalpindi
Renowned poet of ghazal and editor of the newspaper "Naqoos" and the magazine "Nairang-e-Khayal".
Yusuf Zafar
1914 - 1972
- Born : Rawalpindi
- Domicile : Rawalpindi
- Died : Rawalpindi
A poet with modernist leanings.
Ejaz Hussain Hazravi
1929 - 1989
- Born : Faizabad
- Domicile : Rawalpindi
- Died : Rawalpindi
Ijaz Hussain Hazravi is a ghazal singer from Pakistan. He was the disciple of the revered Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. His ghazals were based on thumri, interspersed with sargam.
Mohammad Akbar Nazr Ali Haidari
1869 - 1945
- Born : Mumbai
- Died : Rawalpindi
Naseem Hijazi
1914 - 1996
- Born : Gurdaspur
- Domicile : Rawalpindi
- Died : Rawalpindi
Popular historical novelist
Rafeeq Khavar
1908 - 1990
- Born : Rawalpindi
- Domicile : Rawalpindi
- Died : Rawalpindi
Syed Mubarak Shah
1961 - 2015
- Born : Chakwal
- Died : Rawalpindi
Distinguished poet and an officer associated with Pakistan's civil service
Abdul Aziz Fitrat
1905 - 1968
- Born : Rawalpindi
- Domicile : Rawalpindi
- Died : Rawalpindi
Ashk Rampuri
1891 - 1958
- Born : Rampur
- Domicile : Rawalpindi
- Died : Rawalpindi
Ikram Qamar
1921 - 1980
- Born : Hoshiarpur
- Domicile : Rawalpindi
- Died : Rawalpindi
Lesser-Known but Significant Writers and Translators
Parveen Atif
1935 - 2018
- Born : Gujranwala
- Domicile : Lahore
- Died : Rawalpindi
Razmi Siddiqui
1898 - 1960
- Born : Muzaffarnagar
- Died : Rawalpindi
Habib Kaifvi
1910 - 1991
- Died : Rawalpindi
Mustafa Rahi
1931 - 1986
- Born : Moradabad
- Domicile : Rawalpindi
- Died : Rawalpindi
