WMasood Ahmed Barkati was a Pakistani writer who was known as the editor of Hamdard Naunihal. He was born in 15 August 1933 in Tonk, current-day Rajasthan, India and died on 10 December 2017 in Karachi, Pakistan at the age of 84.
WAltaf Fatima was a Pakistani Urdu novelist, short story writer, and teacher. Born in Lucknow, she moved to Lahore during the Partition, earning MA and BEd from the University of Punjab. Her novel Dastak Na Do is regarded as one of the defining works in the Urdu language. An adaptation was presented on Pakistan television and an abridged translation was serialised by the Karachi monthly, Herald. In 2018, Fatima received the KLF Urdu Literature award at the 9th Karachi Literature Festival for her book, Deed Wadeed. She died on 29 November 2018 without being clinically ill.
WIqrar Ul Hassan Syed is a television presenter and journalist. He has worked at ARY News for many years. Previously a newscaster, he now hosts a program called Sar e Aam.
WAbdul Hai Kakar is a journalist who has worked as a BBC Urdu service correspondent in Peshawar, Pakistan.
WSalman Masood is a Pakistani journalist who is a Pakistan Correspondent at The New York Times since 2001. He is also the Editor, Pakistan The Nation. The focus of his reporting has been on politics and terrorism. In 2009, he contributed to The New York Times reporting team that won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
WAsif Noorani is a Pakistani newspaper and television journalist and writer.
WSheikh Muhammad Sadiq or S M Sadiq is a Pakistani lyricist and a poet whose written songs frequently have been sung by Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and other singers like Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi, Shabnam Majeed and Arif Lohar.
WSehba Sarwar is the author of Black Wings (2004).
WMujeeb-ur-Rehman Shami is a Pakistani journalist and columnist who is the chief editor of Daily Pakistan newspaper.
WAmar Sindhu is Pakistani author and professor from Sindh, Pakistan.
WNajm Hosain Syed is a Pakistani writer. He has written poetry and plays in the Punjabi language as well as literary criticism on Punjabi literature in his Recurrent Patterns in Punjabi Poetry (1968).
WSurendar Valasai is a Pakistani Dalit journalist from the Tharparkar District. He is a member of Provincial assembly of Sindh on minority reserved seat in 2018 on PPP ticket.