Rifat Abbas is a popular poet among Siraiki speakers due to his innovative ideas and his creative use of poetic form. The Kafi was first introduced by the great Siraiki Sufi poet, Khwaja Ghulam Farid (1841-1901) and is a beautiful poetic form that embodies romance along with spirituality. In 2005 Abbas was given the Khawaja […]

Shakir Shujaabadi comes from the small town of Shajaabad in the Siraiki-speaking region of Pakistan. He is one of the most famous poets writing in Siraiki today. Shakir has overcome the difficulties of his physical disabilities to publish many collections of his passionate poetry. He writes poetry in both Siraiki and Urdu. The poems we […]