Punjabi Poetry
Punjabi poetry is as old and as rich as the people of Punjab. It is often believed that Baba Sheikh Farid (d. 1266) is the first Punjabi poet but that's only partly true. He is one of the first whose poetry has survived in the written form. But the Punjabi language and punjabi poetry are for sure older than that. So, what else is there and who are the greatest or latest Punjabi poets? We created this website to answer that question. You will find selected poetry by greatest classical and modern Punjabi poets on this page.
Classical Poets
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Aaqil Muhammad Jogi
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Ali Haider
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Baba Farid
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Bulleh Shah
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Damodar Das
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Fareed Bakhsh
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Fazal Shah
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Guru Nanak
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Hafiz Barkhurdar
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Hashim Shah
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Hidayatullah
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Kareem Bakhsh
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Khawaja Fard Faqir
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Khawaja Ghulam Farid
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Khush Taba
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Mian Muhammad Bakhsh
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Muhammad Boota Gujrati
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Peelu
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Pir Meher Ali Shah
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Qadir Yar
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Shah Hussain
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Shah Muhammad
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Shah Sharaf
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Sultan Bahu
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Waris Shah
Pioneers of Modern Poetry
Modern Poets
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Abdul Kareem Qudsi
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Abid Ameeq
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Abrar Nadeem
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Afzal Ahsan Randhawa
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Afzal Rajput
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Afzal Saahir
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Agha Nisaar
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Ahmad Naeem Arshad
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Ahmad Saleem
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Ahmad Zafar
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Ahmed Saeed
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Ahsan Bajwa
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Ajmal Wajih
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Akbar Kazmi
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Akhlaq Aatif
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Akhtar Hussain Akhtar
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Akhtar Shumar
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Akram Bajwa
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Akram Rehan
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Aleem Shakeel
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Ali Arman
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Ali Arshad Meer
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Ali Babar
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Aliya Bukhari Hala
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Altaf Busal
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Aman ullah Khan
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Amarjit Chandan
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Amjad Mirza Amjad
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Anjum Qureshi
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Anjum Rana
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Anjum Saleemi
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Anujeet Sharma
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Anwar Masood
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Anwar Zahid
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Aqib Satianvi
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Arif Abdul Mateen
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Arshad Chahal
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Ashfaq Ahmad
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Ashiq Raheel
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Ashraf Paal
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Ashraf Suhail
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Ashraf Yousafi
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Asif Raaz
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Asif Shafi
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Asif Shahkar
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Asim Padhiar
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Ayub Kamoka
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Azam Malik
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Azam Samore
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Baba Najmi
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Balbir Kaur Rehal
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Baqi Siddiqui
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Basharat Ahmed Basharat
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Bashir Shad
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Biya Jee
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Bushra Naaz
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Faiz Ahmad Faiz
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Falak Sher Tabassum
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Farhad Iqbal
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Farhat Abbas Shah
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Farrukh Hummayoun
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Fayaz Qarshi
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Ghulam Fareed Shoukat
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Ghulam Hussain Nadeem
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Ghulam Hussain Sajid
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Ghulam Sabir Haideri
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Gohar Waryah
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Gulshan Dayal
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Gurbhajan Gill
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Gurnam Sharan Gill
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Habib Jalib
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Haider Abbas
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Hakeem Arshad Shahzad
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Harjinder Kang
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Hasan Malik
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Hassan Rizvi
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Hazrat Shaam
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Hurmeet Vidyarthi
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Hussain Sahar
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Ijaz
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Ikram Arfi
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Imran Saleem
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Inderjeet Kaur
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Iqbal najmi
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Iqbal Qaiser
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Iqbal Shaida
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Irfan Malik
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Irfan Waris
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Irshad Sandhu
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Jaspal Singh Soos
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Jaswinder
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Javed Arif
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Junaid Akram
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Kavinder Chaand
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Kesar Singh Neer
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Khalil Azad
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Khaqan Haider Ghazi
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Khavar Raja
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Kishawal Kanwaljit Kaur
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Ladla Sarkar
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Laeeq Babree
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Lal Singh Dil
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Mahmood Awan
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Malik M Zamurd
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Manzar Hussain Akhtar
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Manzoor Jhalla
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Manzur Ejaz
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Mashaallah Saif
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Mazhar Tirmazi
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Mehboob ul Hassan
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Mian Zafar Maqbool
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Moazzam Kabir
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Mohammad Zohaib Alam
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Mudasar Punnu
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Mudassar Hayat Noul
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Muddasar Iqbal Butt
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Muhammad Ali Zahoori
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Muhammad Sabir
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Muhammad Shareef Khalid
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Muhammad Yousaf
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Munawar Ahmad Kanday
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Munnu Bhai
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Mushtaq Ahmad Kashfi
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Mushtaq Alam Goga
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Mushtaq Soofi
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Mustafa Anwar
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Naila Butt
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Naqi Bukhari
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Naseer Baloch
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Nasir Malik
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Nasreen Anjum Bhatti
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Nazeer Qaisar
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Noor Ahmed Naqvi
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Noor Muhammad Noor
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Noor ul Ain Sadia
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Nuzhat Abbas
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Pash
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Qabil Jaffri
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Qamar Farid Chishti
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Rafaqat Hussain Mumtaz
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Rai Muhammad Khan Nasir
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Raja Rasalu
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Rashid Hassan Rana
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Rauf Sheikh
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Rawal Rath
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Razzaq Shahid
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Riaz Ahmed Shad
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Rida Meer
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Rubina Rajput
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Saad ullah Shah
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Sabir Ali Sabir
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Safdar Dogar
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Safia Hayat
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Saghar Siddiqui
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Saghir Tabbasum
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Sain Akhtar Lahori
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Sajid Chaudhry
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Salaar Talha
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Saleem Kashir
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Saleem Pasha
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Samina Asma
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Sara Shagufta
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Sarfraz Safi
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Shafqat Ahmad Awan
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Shahida Dilawar Shah
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Shahzad Qaiser
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Shakir Shuja Abadi
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Sharab
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Siddique Sadaf
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Sohaila
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Sufi Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum
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Sultan Kharvi
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Surjit Patar
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Syed Tasadduq Hussain
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Tahir Mehmood Tahir
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Tahira Sra
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Tajammul Kaleem
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Talha Bin Sohail
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Tanveer Bukhari
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Tariq Aziz
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Tariq Gujjar
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Tauqeer Chughtai
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Tauqir Reza
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Wajahat Masood
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Wasif Ali Wasif
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Wazir Agha
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Zafar Iqbal
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Zahid Jarpalvi
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Zahid Nawaz
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Zille Huma Bukhari
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Zubair Ahmad