Abid Ali Abid (Urdu/Persian: سید عابد علی عابد) was a Pakistani Urdu and Persian poet and educator who was born on 17 September 1906 in Dera Ismail Khan, British India and died in Lahore, Pakistan on 20 January 1971.
[1][2][3] He wrote books on literary criticism in Urdu and Persian.
He also initiated and edited several literary journals, including Sahifa-Lahore.
[citation needed] He was one of the initial drama and feature writers at the newly established Radio Pakistan Lahore in the late 1940s and 1950s.
[citation needed] He survived three heart attacks but succumbed to the fourth in 1971.