Akbar Shah (11 November 1917 – 13 April 1997),[2] known by his pen name as Farigh Bukhari (romanized: Fārigh Buk̲h̲ārī), was a Pakistani multilingual poet and progressive writer.

[3] He wrote books, including poetry on various subjects such as literature, social issues and politics in Hindko, Pashto and predominantly in Urdu language.

[b] He started writing around in 1934, and participated in a mushaira in Calcutta (now Kolkata) where he recited his first-ever ghazal presided over an Urdu poet Raza Ali Wahsat.

In 1971, he wrote about East Pakistan (in modern-day Bangladesh), and covered historical events of the war.

[5][6][7] Prior to writing about 1971, he wrote an Urdu poetry collection titled Zairo Bam in January 1952, and his house in Peshawar was subsequently raided by the local police who arrested him for his not-known involvement in keeping the formula of an explosive device called "zero bomb".