WFaiz Ahmad Faiz MBE, NI (Urdu: فَیض احمد فَیض ), was a Pakistani Muslim Marxist, poet, and author in Urdu. He was one of the most celebrated writers of the Urdu language in Pakistan. Outside literature, he has been described as "a man of wide experience" having been a teacher, an army officer, a journalist, a trade unionist and a broadcaster.
WHabib Jalib was a Pakistani revolutionary poet, left-wing activist and politician who opposed martial law, authoritarianism and state oppression. Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz said that he was the poet of the masses. He opposed military coups and administrators and was duly jailed several times.
WMuhammad Siddique, pen name Naz Khialvi, was a Pakistani lyricist and radio broadcaster, who is mainly known for his Sufi verse Tum Ek Gorakh Dhanda Ho, later sung by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a legendary Qawwali singer, making both of them a household name. He also hosted a radio programme, Sandhal Dharti at Faisalabad radio station for 27 years.
WAli Moeen is a Pakistani playwright and a lyricist.
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.
WRiaz-Ur-Rehman Saghar (Urdu: ریاض الرحمٰن ساغر, was a poet and a film song lyricist active in Pakistani cinema.
WSaifuddin Saif was a Pakistani lyricist, poet, film producer-director, and the founder of Rehnuma Films, a film studio of 1954. He was involved in writing poems and lyrics before and after the split of Indian subcontinent. However, most of his films written before partition remained unreleased due to political instabilities in the Indian subcontinent. He was best known for his film Kartar Singh, and is also credited for writing lyrics for Pakistan's historical and first-ever feature film Teri Yaad, which helped him to appear among the prominent writers.
WIvan Shafiq is a Pakistani Pashto music composer, songwriter, music producer, musician and philanthropist. Ivan Shafiq's works are noted for integrating Eastern classical music with electronic music, world music and traditional orchestral arrangements. With an in-house studio Ivan's film-scoring career began during the early 1990s. Working in Pashto film and Music industries, Ivan is one of the Pakistan's all-time best-selling recording artists. In a notable two-decade career, he has been acclaimed for redefining contemporary Pashto film music and contributing to the success of several films.
WMuzaffar Warsi was a Pakistani poet, essayist, lyricist, and a scholar of Urdu. He began writing more than five decades ago. He wrote a rich collection of na`ats, as well as several anthologies of ghazals and nazms, and his autobiography Gaye Dinon Ka Suraagh. He also wrote quatrains for Pakistan's daily newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt.