Umera Ahmed
Umera Ahmed is one of the most widely-read and popular Urdu fiction novelist and screenplay writer of this era.
She completed her Masters in English Literature from Murray College, Sialkot. Later she became an English language lecturer for the students of O and A levels at Army Public College, Sialkot. However she left the job a few years back in order to devote her full attention to writing.
She began her writing career in 1998 at a quite young age. Her initial stories were published in monthly urdu digests and later came out in the form of books. She has written about 16 books , comprising of complete novels and compilations of short stories. However it was her novel "Peer-e-Kaamil (S.A.W.W)" which became her identity.
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Sadat Hossain
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Tehmina Durrani
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Pervez Musharraf
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Anwar was appointed as an adviser on Students and Labour in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's government (1974–1977). He escaped to Afghanistan after Bhutto was toppled by a right-wing military coup led by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq.
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Ali Akbar Natiq began working as a mason, specializing in domes and minarets, to contribute to the family income while he read widely in Urdu and Arabic. Acclaimed as one of the brightest stars in Pakistan's literary firmament, Natiq has published two volumes of poetry and one collection of short stories.
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अली अकबर नातिक़ का जन्म 1976 में ओकारा, पाकिस्तान में हुआ था। मैट्रिक करने के बाद उन्होंने अपने परिवार के गुज़ारे के लिए एक राजमिस्त्री के रूप में काम करना शुरू किया और गुंबदों और मीनारों के माहिर मिस्त्री बन गए। उन्होंने उर्दू और अरबी साहित्य खूब पढ़ा और प्राइवेट से बीए की डिग्री हासिल की। उन्होंने उर्दू पत्रिकाओं में अपनी शुरुआती कहानियों और कविताओं के प्रकाशन के साथ ही साहित्य की दुनिया में अपना खास मुकाम बना लिया। उन्हें उर्दू में लिखने -
Siddique Salik
Brigadier-General Muhammad Siddique Salik (محمد صدیق سالک) was a Pakistani writer, a high profile military officer and public face of President General Zia-ul-Haq’s military government.
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He was born in Manglia, a village in Kharian, District Gujrat, Punjab, British India. He graduated from Islamia College, Lahore earning a master’s degree in English literature and a diploma in International Relations. During his student days he edited college magazines Crescent and Faran.
Initially he taught English in Faisalabad and Mansehra but quit teaching after a few years and joined, as an assistant editor, Pak Jamhooriyat, an English weekly published by the Government of Pakistan. In 1964, he joined Pakistan army and was appointed in Inter Services Publ -
Sarah Drew
As the visionary author of the eco-feminist fantasy, Gaia Codex, Sarah Drew catalyzes powerful blueprints for the future deeply rooted in the gnosis of the past.
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As an independent scholar and cultural philosopher, her work explores the intersection of consciousness, ecology, and feminine spirituality. Her writing has gained a significant and devoted global following of 140,000 plus across all social media platforms and has been praised for its prescient insights and message by NYT bestsellers and globally lauded feminists and environmental leaders.
Sarah is a popular and featured speaker at the graduate level and at organizations such as Google, ABC Deepak Homebase, Bioneers, Tibet House, Paua, and Taschen Paris. She is also popular guest o -
Benazir Bhutto
In the postcolonial era, Benazir Bhutto a Pakistani the first such woman, as prime minister from 1988 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996 led a Muslim nation, faced accusations of corruption, went into self-imposed exile from 1998 to 2007, and afterward returned to reenter politics; people subsequently assassinated her at a campaign rally.
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Benazir Bhutto chaired the center-left Peoples Party. People twice elected Bhutto to lead a state. She ranks as the only female to date.
Bhutto, the eldest child of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, of Sindhi and Shia faith, and Begum Nusrat Bhutto of Iranian and Kurdish descent. From town of Bhatto Kalan, situated in the Indian state of Haryana, Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto, her paternal grandfather, came to district of Larkana i -
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Deputy Nazir Ahmad
Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi, populary known as "Diptee" (Deputy) Nazir Ahmad (1831–1912), was an Urdu writer and social reformer from British India.
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He is considered one of the first novel writers of Urdu language. -
Omar Shahid Hamid
Omar Shahid Hamid served with Pakistan's Karachi police for 12 years, during which time he was targeted by various terrorist groups and criminal outfits. He received his Masters in Criminal Justice Policy from the London School of Economics, and his Masters in Law from University College London.
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Mukhtar Masood
Mukhtar Masood (Urdu: مختار مسعود) is a Pakistani Urdu writer and bureaucrat.
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A graduate from Sir Syed's Muslim University Aligarh, he migrated to Pakistan after independence and was among the three candidates who succeeded in the civil service competitive exam held in January 1949. He then gradually rose to become a commissioner and a federal secretary. Later on he served as chairman of the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC), Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan (ADBP) and secretary-general of the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD).
So far he has written 3 books in Urdu:
1. Awaz e Dost (Urdu: آوازِ دوست)
2. Safar e Naseeb (Urdu: سفرِ نصیب)
3. Loh e Ayyam (Urdu: لوحِ ایام)
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Muhammad Khan
Colonel Muhammad Khan (Urdu: کرنل محمد خان) is a Pakistan Army officer and a writer. He also served in British Indian Army and was a veteran of World War II. While serving in Pakistan Army, he wrote his first book Bajung Aamad (Urdu: بجنگ آمد) which is a humorous account of his life in Iraq, Libya and Egypt as a soldier during World War II. This book became extremely popular and earned him critically acclaimed prominence among Urdu humorists. He is considered one of the most influential authors of this genre.
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He is mostly known as Colonel Muhammad Khan to distinguish him from other bearers of this common name, despite his efforts to be recognised by his birth name. Later editions of his books show his name as just Muhammad Khan.
He wrote fol -
Asim Javed
Asim Javed is a reflective writer whose work explores the emotional complexities of modern life. With a background in finance and years of observing human behavior across diverse spaces, from everyday conversations to corporate boardrooms, he brings a quietly powerful voice to themes like healing, regret, identity, and belonging. His debut book, Before I Disappear, is a gentle invitation to pause, reflect, and rediscover the parts of ourselves we often silence.
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Hassan Abbas
Hassan Abbas is professor and chair of the department of regional and analytical atudies at National Defense University's College of International Security Affairs in Washington, D.C.
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Sissela Bok
Sissela Bok (born Sissela Myrdal on 2 December 1934) is a Swedish-born American philosopher and ethicist, the daughter of two Nobel Prize winners: Gunnar Myrdal who won the Economics prize with Friedrich Hayek in 1974, and Alva Myrdal who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982.
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She received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology from George Washington University in 1957 and 1958, and her Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1970. Formerly a Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University, Sissela Bok is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School of Public Health.
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Wasif Ali Wasif
Wasif Ali Wasif is a writer, poet and Sufi intellectual from Pakistan. He is famous for his unique literary style. He used to write short pieces of prose on topics like love, life, fortune, fear, hope, expectation, promise, prayer, happiness, sorrow and so on. He did poetry in Urdu and Punjabi languages. Probably no contemporary Urdu writer is more cited in quotations than he is. Later years he used to answer questions in specially arranged gatherings at Lahore attended by the notable community. Some of these sessions were recorded in audio and were later published as Guftagoo (talk) series. His mehfils never had a set subject nor did he lecture on chosen topics. His way was to ask people if they had questions and then he responded to these
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Ali Abbas Jalalpuri
Prof. Syed Ali Abbas Jalalpuri was a writer from Pakistan regarded by the intellectuals as the Will Durant of Pakistan. He wrote more than fourteen books on Philosophy, History, and Religion in Urdu and Punjabi languages.
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His books seemed to herald an age of reason in Pakistan and his opinions on the subjects of history, civilization, religion, philosophy, metaphysics, folklore are held in great esteem.
In his greatest work, Riwayat-e-Falsafa (Traditions of Philosophy), he tried to educate a common Urdu reader on the subject of Philosophy. This book served its purpose in popularizing the subject within the country.
His Works:
1. Riwayat-e-Falsafa (Story of Philosophy)
2. Wahdatul Wujud tey Punjabi Sha'eri (Pantheism and Punjabi Poetry)
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Mirza Athar Baig
Mirza Athar Baig is a Pakistani novelist, playwright and short story writer. He is associated with the Philosophy Department at the Government College University in Lahore. His fiction works include the novel Ghulam Bagh (The Garden of Slaves) which is considered one of the central works of literature in the Urdu language. The novel has acquired cult following among the youth and prestige among Urdu language critics. Three editions of Ghulam Bagh have been published in Pakistan within two years.
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In addition to Ghulam Bagh, a collection of his short stories, titled Beh Afsana (The Non-story) was published in 2008. His second novel, Sifar se aik tak (From zero to one) was published in 2009.
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Ahmad Faraz
Ahmad Faraz was an Urdu language Pakistani poet from Pakistan. He is considered one of the greatest modern Urdu poets of the last century. Faraz is his pseudonym or 'takhalus'. His real name was Syed Ahmad Shah.
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Faraz is critically acclaimed for simplicity to his style of writing and he is often compared to Faiz Ahmed Faiz - one of the greatest poets of Pakistan. Outspoken about politics, he went into self-imposed exile during the General Zia-ul-Haq era after he was arrested for reciting certain poems at a Mushaira criticizing the military rule. He stayed for 6 years in Britain, Canada and Europe before returning to Pakistan, where he was initially appointed Chairman of Pakistan Academy of Letters and later chairperson of National Book Found -
Altaf Fatima
Altaf Fatima (born 1927 in Lucknow, British India) was an Urdu novelist, short-story writer, and teacher (specializing in Muhammad Iqbal). Her novel Dastak Na Do ("Do not knock") 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.
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Altaf Fatima was the second of four children born in a Muslim household in Lucknow, India, to Mohammad Fazle Amin and his wife Mumtaz Jahan.
She was living in Lahore, Pakistan at the end of her life, to where she had retired as a professor of Urdu, but continued her literary work.
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Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi born Ahmad Shah Awan was an Urdu and English language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author. He wrote 50 books on topics such as poetry, fiction, criticism, journalism and art, and was a major figure in contemporary Urdu literature. His poetry was distinguished by its humanism, and his Urdu afsanay (short stories) are considered second only to Prem Chand in its depiction of rural culture. He was also editor and publisher of the literary magazine Funoon for almost half a century.
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He received several awards such as the Pride of Performance in 1968, Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 1980 and Pakistan's highest literary award Kamal-e-Fun Award in 1998 for his literary works. -
A.S. Mori
A.S. Mori is an American novelist, software engineer, and computer scientist who wears many hats. When he was a Bachelors student at University of Michigan Ann Arbor, he was a member of The University of Michigan’s Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts (LSWA). As a Masters student at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, he has published research in the field of social robotics and A.I. Outside of his educational experiences, he has worked in numerous countries all across the world and is fluent in English and Japanese while being conversational in Dutch. When he is not programming, writing, or learning other languages, he is keeping up with the commercial space industry, shredding on an electric guitar, watching films, r
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Intizar Husain
Intizar Husain (1925–2016) was a journalist, short-story writer, and novelist, widely considered one of the most significant fiction writers in Urdu. Born in Dibai, Bulandshahr, in British-administered India, he migrated to Pakistan in 1947 and lived in Lahore. Besides Basti, he was the author of two other novels, Naya Gar (The New House), which paints a picture of Pakistan during the ten-year dictatorship of the Islamic fundamentalist General Zia-ul-Haq, and Agay Sumandar Hai (Beyond Is the Sea), which juxtaposes the spiraling urban violence of contemporary Karachi with a vision of the lost Islamic realm of al-Andalus. Collections of Husain’s celebrated short stories have appeared in English under the titles Leaves, The Seventh Door, A Chr
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Parveen Shakir
Parveen Shakir was an Urdu poet, teacher and a civil servant of the Government of Pakistan.
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Parveen started writing at an early age and published her first volume of poetry, Khushbu [Fragrance], in 1976 to great acclaim. She subsequently published other volumes of poetry; all well-received.
Shakir employed mainly two forms of poetry in her work, one being the prevalent Ghazal, and the other being free verse. The most prominent themes in Shakir's poetry are love, feminism, and social stigmas, though she occasionally wrote on other topics as well. Her work was often based on romanticism, exploring the concepts of love, beauty and their contradictions, and heavily integrated the use of metaphors, similes and personifications.
Arguably, Shakir can -
B.J. Sadiq
B.J. Sadiq is a British Pakistani writer. He was born in 1983 and read economics at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. He has also received a degree from Government College University, Lahore. Soon after Cambridge, Sadiq apprenticed at the House of Lords before working as a financial journalist in London, and has also been a contributor to a range of publications, including the American Interest, the Spectator, the Daily Times and the Friday Times. He divides his time between Pakistan and England.
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