WMirza Adeeb,, also known as Meerza Adeeb,, was a Pakistani Urdu writer of dramas and short stories. His plays and short stories won him six prizes and awards from the Pakistan Writers' Guild.
WIshtiaq Ahmed is a Swedish political scientist and author of Pakistani descent. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stockholm University. He is also Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. He was a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore and at the South Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore from June 2007 to June 2010. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the "Liberal Arts & Social Sciences International Journal (LASSIJ)"; He is a member of the editorial advisory boards of "Asian Ethnicity"; "Journal of Punjab Studies"; "IPRI Journal, Islamabad"; and "PIPS Research Journal of Conflict and Peace Studies, Islamabad".
WTariq Ali is a British political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. He is a member of the editorial committee of the New Left Review and Sin Permiso, and contributes to The Guardian, CounterPunch, and the London Review of Books. He read Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford.
WKhwaja Khurshid Anwar was a filmmaker, writer, director and music composer who earned recognition in both India and Pakistan. He is credited as being one of the most original and inventive music directors of his generation. He was the Programme Producer (Music) at (AIR), All India Radio or Akashvani, Delhi in 1939.
WFouzia Bhatti is an Urdu language author, poet, and columnist from Pakistan.
WMoulana Syed Fida Hussain Bukhari is a Muslim Religious scholar and author. He studied under the guidance and supervision of grand Ayatollahs at the Hawza Ilmiyah Qom. His studies included Aloom-e-Kharij, Kalam, Falsafa and Fiqh. He first developed recognition as an independent writer and journalist; his writings have featured in the Daily Jang, Al Muntazar and Safeena-e-Nijaat Magazine. His writings led to his appointment as editor for the Quranic magazine Almizan. He has made appearances on radio stations and television broadcasts.
WRazia Butt was an Urdu novelist and playwright from Pakistan. Her novels typically have strong female protagonists, and have been dramatised in movies and television plays.
WImtiaz Dharker is a British poet, artist and video film maker. She has won the Queen's Gold Medal for her English poetry and was appointed Chancellor of Newcastle University from January 2020. In 2019, she was considered for the position of Poet Laureate following the tenure of Carol Ann Duffy, but withdrew herself from contention in order, as she stated, to maintain focus on her writing."I had to weigh the privacy I need to write poems against the demands of a public role. The poems won," said Dharker. For many Dharker is seen as one of Britain's most inspirational contemporary poets. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2011. In the same year, she received the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. In 2016 she received an Honorary Doctorate from SOAS University of London.
WFaiz Ahmad Faiz was a Pakistani poet, and author in Urdu and Punjabi language. 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.
WAyatollah Hassan Raza Ghadeeri is a Shia scholar and Ayatollah (mujtahid) of Pakistan. His father, Mufti Muzammil Hussain Meesmi, was the first Mufti of Punjab.
WBee Gul is a Pakistani screenwriter and director. She wrote some TV plays and television films like Talkhiyaan, Pehchaan, Kaun Qamar Ara, Firdous ki Dozakh, most notably Dar Si Jaati Hai Sila and Raqeeb Se for HUM TV.
WAltaf Hussain Hali, also known as Maulana Khawaja Hali, was an Urdu poet and a writer.
WAbdul Hameed was an Urdu fiction writer from Pakistan. He was also known for writing a popular children's TV play Ainak Wala Jin (1993) for Pakistan Television Corporation which was broadcast on PTV during the mid-1990s. In 1997, he was awarded Pride of Performance by the Government of Pakistan.
WMohsin Hamid is a British Pakistani novelist, writer and brand consultant. His novels are Moth Smoke (2000), The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013), and Exit West (2017).
WSalima Hashmi is a Pakistani painter artist, former college professor, anti-nuclear weapons activist and former caretaker minister in Sethi caretaker ministry. She has served for four years as a professor and the dean of National College of Arts. She is the eldest daughter of the renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz and his British-born wife Alys Faiz.
WAbdullah Hussain, was an Urdu novelist and short story writer from Rawalpindi.
WSyed Imtiaz Ali Taj was a dramatist who wrote in the Urdu language. He is remembered above all for his 1922 play Anarkali, based on the life of Anarkali, that was staged hundreds of times and was adapted for feature films in India and Pakistan, including the Indian film Mughal-e-Azam (1960).
WAllama Muhammad Iqbal, was a South Asian Muslim writer, philosopher, and politician, whose poetry in the Urdu language is among the greatest of the twentieth century, and whose vision of a cultural and political ideal for the Muslims of British-ruled India was to animate the impulse for Pakistan. He is commonly referred to by the honorific Allama.
WSyed Ali Abbas Jalalpuri was a professor of philosophy in Government College Lahore. He is regarded by the intellectuals of Pakistan as the Will Durant of Pakistan. He had master's degrees in Philosophy, Persian and Urdu. He wrote more than fourteen books on Philosophy, History, and Religion in Urdu language. He was known as a first-rate scholar, and his books seemed to herald an age of reason in Pakistan.
WAbu Al-Asar Hafeez Jalandhari was a Pakistani Urdu-language poet who wrote the lyrics for the National Anthem of Pakistan and National Anthem of Azad Kashmir. Another widely used name in Pakistan is Hafeez Jalandhari, a spelling shown in most English language Pakistani newspapers.
WHabib Jalib was a Pakistani revolutionary poet, left-wing activist 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.
WShahbaz Malik SI PP is a Pakistani writer, broadcaster, professor, bibliographer & research scholar. He has written 40 books on literature and the Punjabi language. The government of Pakistan awarded him the Pride of Performance award in 2003 and 2018, and the Sitara-i-Imtiaz in 2016.
WSaadat Hasan Manto was a writer, playwright and author born in Ludhiana active in British India and later, after the Partition of India, in Pakistan.
WHajra Masroor was a Pakistani writer.
WKhadija Mastoor was a Pakistani short story writer and novelist who was highly regarded in Urdu literature. Her novel Aangan is widely considered a literary masterpiece in Urdu literature, which has also been made into a television drama. Her younger sister Hajra Masroor was also a short story writer while poet, playwright and newspaper columnist Khalid Ahmad was her younger brother.
WVed Parkash Mehta was an Indian-born writer who lived and worked mainly in the United States. Blind from an early age, Mehta is best known for an autobiography published in instalments from 1972 to 2004. He wrote for The New Yorker for many years.
WMumtaz Husain, better known as Mumtaz Mufti, was a writer from Pakistan.
WNadya A.R., also known as Nadya Abbas Rahimtoola, is a Pakistani author, specialist teacher, journalist, and psychotherapist. Her published works include Broken Souls (1995), Kolachi Dreams (2006), and Invisible Ties (2017).
WSara Naveed is a Pakistani author based in Lahore, Pakistan.
WPran Nevile was an Indian author of Indian Art, Indian Culture & Indian History best known for the 1992 book, Lahore: A Sentimental Journey. He was an authority on pre-1947 Lahore and Nautch.
WAroon Purie is the founder-publisher and former editor-in-chief of India Today and former chief executive of the India Today Group. He is the managing director of Thomson Press (India) Limited and the chairman and managing director of TV Today. He is the recipient of the Padma Bhushan award. He was also the editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest India. In October 2017, he passed control of the India Today Group to his daughter, Kalli Purie.
WFarooq Qaiser was a Pakistani artist, newspaper columnist, TV show director, puppeteer, script writer, and voice actor. He was known as the creator of the fictional puppet character Uncle Sargam introduced in 1976 in children's television show Kaliyan. Farooq was also a cartoonist, newspaper columnist and wrote for the newspaper Daily Nai Baat in Lahore and under the pen name "Meethay Karelay".
WBano Qudsia, also known as Bano Aapa, was a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist. She wrote literature in Urdu, producing novels, dramas plays and short stories. Qudsia is best recognized for her novel Raja Gidh. Qudsia also wrote for television and stage in both Urdu and Punjabi languages. Her play Aadhi Baat has been called "a classic play". Bano Qudsia died in Lahore on 4 February 2017.
WJoseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work.
WPartap Sharma was an Indian playwright, novelist, author of books for children, commentator, actor and documentary film-maker.
WBapsi Sidhwa is an American novelist of Gujarati Parsi Zoroastrian descent who writes in English and is resident in the United States.