[7][14][15][16][17][18] The Pakistani Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage, Pervez Rashid, the Governor of Sindh, Dr. Ishratul Ebad Khan, the Pakistani Prime Minister, Mian Nawaz Sharif, Dr. Muhammad Qasim Bughio, Chairman PAL, and Zahida Parveen, Director-General PAL, expressed sorrow over the death of Jafarey.

[25] Ada Jafarey was part of a traditionally conservative society where women were not allowed to think and express independently.

[d][1][2][10][26] Her mother, and her husband Nurul Hasan Jafarey, encouraged her to keep on her literary activities in spite of social difficulties.

[1][2] She was the student of great poets like Akhtar Sheerani and Jafar Ali Khan Asar Lakhnavi and used to get her poetry checked and corrected by them.

[7] [10] Ada Jafarey writes in a gender-neutral mode,[27] though her works include feminist themes like discrimination and dehumanisation of women and of them being viewed as sexual objects.

[1] Ada Jafarey wrote of her experiences as a wife and mother in a modified traditional idiom, but also noticed the lack of fulfillment that accompanied these relationships.

[1][2] She also published her collection of Urdu Haiku, Sāz-i Suk̲h̲n Bahānā hai[m][5][26] Her ghazal, Hoṉṭoṉ pih kabhī un ke merā nām hī āʾe[n][26] was sung and popularised by Ustad Amanat Ali Khan.

[7][14][15] The first couplet of that ghazal is:[26] Transliteration: In 1955, Hamdard Foundation, New Delhi recognized her as the "Outstanding Female Poet of the Century".

[31][2] She was the recipient of the Kamal-e Fan Award for lifetime achievement in literature by the Pakistan Academy of Letters in 2003.

She was the first woman recipient of the award since the literary prize was established by the Pakistan Academy of Letters (PAL) in 1997.

[6][7][30][32] She expressed her views thus:[p][4][33] میں نے مردوں کی عائد کردہ پابندیوں کو قبول نہیں کیا، بلکہ اُن پابندیوں کو قبول کیا جو میرے ذہن نے مجھ پہ عائد کی ہیں۔۔۔ میں سمجھتی ہوں کہ بات کو بین الستور کہنا زیادہ مناسب ہے کیونکہ رمز و کنایہ بھی تو شاعری کا حُسن ہے۔I did not accept the restrictions imposed by men, rather accepted only those restrictions which my mind has imposed upon me...

[7] Qazi Abdul Ghaffar, in his introduction to Ada Jafarey's collection of verses, particularly mentioned her name in the field of feminist way of expression.