Modern Poetry of Pakistan offers many offshoots of the classical tradition of Muslim poetry in India. Although Amir Khusrau (1253-1325), considered by some to be the first poet writing in a ...

Our Pakistan-based reporter Masood Mallhi reviews Pakistani Punjabi poet Imran Saleem's poetry from 'Fer Shakhan ... the poet celebrates the joys of love and pain and the anxiety of separation.

Munir Niazi is one of Pakistan's most distinguished poets, who wrote in Urdu as well as Punjabi, but made no secret of his love for the latter. He remains till date a celebrated revolutionary poet ...