yardstick of poverty is taken into account, more than 50 percent of the people were not literate. In their Karachi meeting in 2007, some of Pakistan's progressive writers planned to reactivate the Progressive Writers Association as a body again after a lapse of 53 years, and elected the veteran Hameed Akhtar as the secretary-general of the association. Writers Prominent members of the movement have included: Mirza Adeeb Hameed Akhtar Jan Nisar Akhtar Ahmed Ali Nasir Alisyed Zoe Ansari Sulaiman Areeb Idris Azad Kaifi Azmi Sajjad Babar Syed Fakhruddin Balley (Balley Alig) Rajinder Singh Bedi Farigh Bukhari Krishan Chander Ismat Chughtai Vijaydan Detha Faiz Ahmad Faiz Ahmed Faraz Awais Garani Khatir Ghaznavi Firaq Gorakhpuri Majnun Gorakhpuri Mazhar Haider Raza Hamadani Sibt-e-Hassan Hussam Hur Habib Jalib Ali Sardar Jafri Nusrat Jehan Rashid Jahan Majaz Lucknawi Sahir Ludhianvi Zafar Mairaj Josh Malihabadi Sadat Hassan Manto Makhdoom Mohiuddin Jamal Naqvi Gul Khan Nasir Somen Chanda Prem Nath Munshi Premchand Amrita Pritam Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi Saadat Saeed Bhisham Sahni Manzar Saleem Mushtaq Shabab Muslim Shameem Muhammad Ali Siddiqui Salma Siddiqui Majrooh Sultanpuri Gulam Rabbani Taban Shabnam Naqvi Habib Tanvir M. D. Taseer Khagendra Thakur Mahmud-uz-Zafar Sajjad Zaheer Ali Jawad Zaidi Raja Zulqarnain Mulk Raj Anand See also Pak Tea House Communist Party of India Communist Party of Pakistan Islamic feminism Khilafat Movement Liberalism and progressivism within Islam References Cited sources Further reading Ali, Ahmed, The Prison House: Collection of Short Stories, Akrash Publishing, Karachi, 1985, see Afterword Progressive Movement and Urdu Poetry, by Ali Sardar Jafri Sajjad Zaheer and Progressive Writers’ Movement Zeno (Safdar Mir), Cultural Notes: A Writer Committed to Progressivism (Ahmed Ali), Dawn, Karachi, 13 June 1986, p.iv. 'The Journal of Indian Writing in English', A Tribute to Ahmed Ali, Editor, G.S. Balarama Gupta, Vol. 23, January–July 1995, Nos. 1-2. Ali, Orooj Ahmed, Sajjad Zaheer, Dawn-Letters, January 15, 2006. ahsaas 1,2,3 a journal of progressive literary writings June 2013 peshawar.kpk province,Pakistan Alvi, Dr. Khalid. Angare Ka Tarikhi Pusmanzar aur Tarraqi Pasand Tahrik, (Historical Perspective of Angare and The Progressive Writers' Movement), Educational Publishing House, Kucha Pandit, Delhi 1995. External links Progressive Writers Association Pakistan Indian independence movement Indian literature Pakistani literature Progressivism Progressivism in Pakistan Communism in India Literary movements Urdu-language literature Communism in Pakistan Social movements in Pakistan Social movements in India 20th-century Indian literature Indian literary movements Organizations established in 1936 Urdu-language literary movements Communist Party of India mass organisations