Top Pakistani Column Writers

Here's the list of them

1. Hassan Nisar 

Hassan Nisar (Urdu: حسن نثار ‎) is a Pakistani journalist, columnist and an analyst.[1] He is known for his talk show Choraha (Urdu for Crossroads) in ARY, Pakistan.[2][3]

Career

Nisar started his career as a journalist from Dhanak Magazine in 1972. Later he became the Editor of Dhanak. He composed poetry, movie songs and edited a magazine Monthly Zanjeer in 1980, he appeared on TV talk shows, including Meray Mutabiq and Choraha on Geo News. His presentations are in Urdu. His commentaries in print and electronic media focus on contemporary Pakistan and the political history of Islam.

2. Rauf Klasra

Rauf Klasra (Urdu: رؤف کلاسرا‎) is a Pakistani journalist and Urdu language columnist. He is working as Editor Investigation in Dunya News Television and Dunya newspaper. He files stories for both the paper and television whereas his column appears in Urdu weekly Akhbr-eJ-Jahaan and Dunya newspaper. He is also running a web paper called Topstoryonline.com.[1] Rauf was earlier working with The News, International where he filed many investigative stories which made headlines

Rauf Klasra is famous for investigating political scams and scandals. Some famous stories on his credit are Sonia Naz Case, NICL Scam, RPP Scam. His most recent investigative story is the disbursments of funds by Raja Pervez Ashraf and settlement of 6 billion scam by former MNA Anjum Aqeel Khan of PML-N. Both the stories were done on the show 'Kyun' hosted by Arshad Sharif. Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took suo-moto on both the shows and initiated proceedings.[2].He is an honest Pakistani and even Indians respect him.

3. Orya Maqbool

Orya Maqbool Jan (Urdu: اور یا مقبول جان‎) is a Pakistani columnist who hosts talk show on Neo News.[1]
Jan is known as a critic of liberal activists including Malala Yousafzai, Asma Jahangir and Pervez Hoodbhoy.[4] Jan has also been critical of Ahmadiyya Jama'at, feminism, atheism, secularism and progressivism.[5][6][7] Jan has faced extensive criticism from activists over his campaign against liberal academics and encouraging his supporters to spy, and publicly humiliate, progressive academics.[8]

4. Hamid Mir 

Hamid Mir (Urdu: حامد مير‎) (born 23 July 1966) is a Pakistani journalist, security expert, war correspondent, news anchor, and an author. Born in Lahore to a journalistic family, Mir initially worked as a journalist with numerous mainstream Pakistani newspapers, and currently hosts the political talk show Capital Talk on Geo News. He writes columns for Urdu as well English newspapers, both national and international. During the military government of Pervez Musharraf in 2007, Mir was banned from appearing in Pakistani television, and later by the Zardari administration in June 2008.

Mir became internationally known due to his interviews with Osama bin Laden after the September 11 attacks. During the journalist career, Mir also interviewed various world leaders such as John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Tony Blair, Colin Powell, Nelson Mandela and Shimon Peres. He has also interviewed celebrities Shah Rukh Khan.

For his best support work he was awarded with the civil award Hilal-i-Imtiaz. In 2015, Mir was described by The Washington Post as "the most famous television journalist in Pakistan who lives like a fugitive". In 2016, he was awarded Free Press Award in the “Most Resilient Journalist Award” category.In 2017, he was awarded the lifetime achievement award by Zafarullah Khan Jamali for being a noted news anchor.

5. Huzaifa Mazhar

Huzaifa Mazhar (Rana Huzaifa Mazhar Khan) (Urdu: حزیفہ مظہر ‎) is a Pakistani poet, columnist and an painter. He is known for his blogs and articles which he writes for different papers.

Huzaifa Mazhar

Career

Mazhar started his career as a columnist from The Nation . He started writing columns about Technology at The News Cyber @ Print . He composed poetry for many papers.  His presentations are in Urdu and English . His commentaries in print and electronic media focus on contemporary Pakistan. He currently writes blog for many sites. Currently Mazhar writes about Political situation in Pakistan.

Source: Wikipedia