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Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

-language writers.

A

* Allama Rashid ul Khairi * Akbar Allahabadi * Ali Akbar Natiq * Maikash Akbarabadi * Akhtar Sheerani * Ada Jafri * Aizaz Ahmad Azar * Jamiluddin Aali * Ghulam Abbas * Khwaja Ahmad Abbas * Mirza Adeeb *

Chaudhry Afzal Haq Chaudhry Afzal Haq (1891–8 January 1942) was an Islamic scholar and writer who served as the second president of Majlis-i Ahrar-i Islam from 1931 to 1934. Biography A senior political figure in the history of the Indian subcontinent, he work ...

* Wazir Agha * Anwaar Ahmad * Aziz Ahmad * Malikzada Manzoor Ahmad *

Ashfaq Ahmed Ashfaq Ahmed (; 22 August 1925 – 7 September 2004) was a Pakistani writer, playwright and broadcaster. His works in Urdu included novels, short stories and plays for Pakistan Television Corporation, Pakistan Television and Radio Pakistan. H ...

* Faruqi Nisar Ahmed * Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi * Saeed Ahmad Akhtar * Waheed Akhtar * Zamin Ali * Amjad Islam Amjad * Majeed Amjad * Rasheed Amjad * Mir Amman * Rais Amrohvi * Satyapal Anand * Sahar Ansari * Syed Amin Ashraf * Syed Waheed Ashraf * Hasan Askari * Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi * Abul Kalam Azad * Idris Azad * Jagan Nath Azad * Muhammad Husain Azad * Abdul Hameed * Ayub Sabir * Amjad Parvez

B

* Bekal Utsahi * Obaidullah Baig * Fatima Surayya Bajia * Ahmad Bashir * Rajinder Singh Bedi * Begum Akhtar Riazuddin * Abdaal Bela * Patras Bokhari * Baba Mohammad Yahya Khan

C

* Mohinder Pratap Chand * Krishan Chander * Harcharan Chawla * Ismat Chughtai * Kausar Chandpuri

D

* Ehsan Danish * Khwaja Mir Dard * Deputy Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi * Abdul Qavi Desnavi * Attash Durrani

E

* Jaun Elia

F

* Faiz Ahmed Faiz * Farhat Ishtiaq * Ahmed Faraz * Bushra Farrukh * Aslam Farrukhi * Shamsur Rahman Faruqi * Mehr Lal Soni Zia Fatehabadi * Farman Fatehpuri * Niaz Fatehpuri * Kanwal Feroze * Bhupendra Nath Kaushik "Fikr" * Maulana Fuzail Ahmad Nasiri “Ambar”

G

* Altaf Gauhar * Mirza Ghalib * Firaq Gorakhpuri * Majnoon Gorakhpuri * Tahir Aslam Gora

H

* Altaf Hussain Hali * Muhammad Hamidullah * Maulvi Abdul Haq * Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee * Muzaffar Hasan * Zahida Hina * Panchakshari Hiremath * Ashfaq Hussain * Intizar Hussain * Rafiq Hussain * Qurratulain Hyder * Hashim Nadeem * Hasrat Mohani

I

* Muhammad Ilyas * Ibn-e-Insha * Ibrahim Jalees *

Muhammad Iqbal Muhammad Iqbal (9 November 187721 April 1938) was a South Asian Islamic philosopher, poet and politician. Quote: "In Persian, ... he published six volumes of mainly long poems between 1915 and 1936, ... more or less complete works on philoso ...

* Ibn-e-Safi * Ikram Chughtai * Ishtiaq Ahmad

J

* Jigar Moradabadi * Jaun Elia * Ali Sardar Jafri * Habib Jalib * Jameel Jalibi * Khalid Jawed

K

* Mazhar Kaleem * Abul Khair Kashfi * Agha Shorish Kashmiri * Nasir Kazmi * Khalique Ibrahim Khalique * Ghulam Mustafa Khan * Muhammad Khan * Maulana Wahiduddin Khan * Syed Ahmed Khan * Zafar Ali Khan * Dushyant Kumar * Kanhaiya Lal Kapoor

L

* Maqbool Ahmed Lari * Muzaffar Ahmad Lari * Nurul Ain Lari

M

* Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi * Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr * Mohammad Ali Jauhar * Mubarak Ali * Josh Malihabadi * Arsh Malsiani * Saadat Hasan Manto * Anwar Maqsood * Hajra Masroor * Khadija Mastoor * Abul Ala Maududi * Mohsin Mighiana *

Mir Taqi Mir Mir Muhammad Taqi (February 1723 – 20 September 1810), known as Mir Taqi Mir (also spelled Meer Taqi Meer), was an Urdu poetry, Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal Empire, Mughal India and one of the pioneers who gave shape to the Urdu ...

* Janbaz Mirza * Momin Khan Momin * Mumtaz Mufti * Mohsinul Mulk * Makhdoom Mohiuddin * Mohiuddin Qadri Zore * Majaz

N

* Naseem Hijazi * Tahir Naqvi * Gopi Chand Narang * Mir Gul Khan Nasir * Zehra Nigah * Shibli Nomani * Asif Noorani * Naeem Baig * Ghulam-us-Saqlain Naqvi * Moeen Nizami * Mohiuddin Nawab

P

* Munshi Premchand * Patras Bokhari *

Munir Niazi Munir Niazi (Punjabi language, Punjabi, Urdu: ;09 April 1923 – 26 December 2006), was a Pakistani poet. He mostly wrote in the Punjabi language, Punjabi and Urdu languages and also wrote for newspapers, magazines and radio. In 1960, he es ...