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This subcategory contains English-language sites offering poetry from Pakistani authors.

Subcategories

• Ghalib, Mirza Asadullah Khan
• Iqbal, Muhammad

Resources in This Category

• Amir Khusro

  http://www.angelfire.com/sd/urdumedia/
  (or Khusrau). Thirteenth century sufi poet who wrote and sang in several languages.

• Arrival 1946

  http://markmeynell.wordpress.com/2007/06/02/arrival-1946-moniza-alvi/
  A poem by Moniza Alvi.

• Bilal Sarwar`s Poems

  http://www.bilalsarwar.8m.com/Poetry.htm
  Young poet's work using animation and real audio.

• Faiz Ahmed Faiz

  http://www.faiz.com/
  Official site of the Faiz Foundation with information about the Urdu poet and his work, and also about the Foundation.

• Four Poems by Munir Niazi

  http://www.vudya.com/vkf/index.htm
  These poems have been translated from Punjabi into English by Sain Sucha. (Click on VKF Web, next on English/Engelska under Poetry/Poesi, and then on Niazi's "Four Poems".)

• Habib Jalib: Ten Poems

  http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv9n1/jalibpoems.htm
  From Urdu and Punjabi, these are poems of late 1960s and early 1970s by this "People's Poet". Original text is given alongside in roman script.

• Mermaid by Moniza Alvi

  http://www.versedaily.org/2008/mermaid.shtml
  A recent poem by a poet of Pakistani origin.

• Muhammad Iqbal

  http://islamica.tripod.com/iqbal.htm
  Presentation of the poet's verses with text available in Urdu, Persian, English and Arabic.

• Parveen Shakir: Five Poems

  http://www.cipherjournal.com/html/hashmi.html
  First English translations of these poems from Cipher Journal.

• Parveen Shakir: Where Am I?

  http://www.beilharz.com/poetas/shakir/
  English and German translations of two Urdu poems by Parveen Shakir.

• Poems of Nasir Kazmi

  http://ghazalsofnasir.blogspot.com/
  English translations of the Urdu ghazals of Nasir Kazmi.

• Sahar Ansari and Parveen Shakir

  http://www.whlreview.com/no-4.1/poetry/AlamgirHashmi.pdf
  Poetry by Sahar Ansari and Parveen Shakir translated into English by Alamgir Hashmi, in Wilderness House Literary Review (USA), 4:1.

• Urdu Poetry

  http://urdu-fun.blogspot.com/
  The blog have classical, funny and modern poetry from different language from Pakistan.

• World of Urdu Poetry

  http://www.shairy.com/
  A wide selection of Urdu poetry, with script download facility.

• Zeeshan Sahil

  http://www.urdustudies.com/pdf/08/17sahil.pdf
  Sahil's "Bookworms" has been translated from his Urdu text.

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