id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8010 Pakistani English literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 1436 164 61 Find sources: "Pakistani English literature" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (September 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) English language poetry from Pakistan from the beginning held a special place in South Asian writing, on account of the new trends represented by Shahid Suhrawardy, Ahmed Ali, Alamgir Hashmi, Taufiq Rafat, Daud Kamal, Maki Kureishi, Zulfikar Ghose, Waqas Ahmed Khwaja, Moniza Alvi, Bilal Faruqi, Shahid Suhrawardy, Omar Tarin, Kaleem Omar, Raja Changez Sultan and others.[2] Fiction from Pakistan began to receive recognition in the latter part of the 20th century. Those who have written and spoken extensively about Pakistani English Literature, following the seminal scholarly and critical work of Alamgir Hashmi, are Tariq Rahman, Muneeza Shamsie and Amra Raza.[citation needed] Pakistani Literature: The Contemporary English Writers edited by Dr. Alamgir Hashmi (New York: World University Service, 1978; Islamabad: Gulmohar Press, 1987) (2nd ed.). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8010.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8010.txt