Fateh Mohammad Malik, (Urdu: فتح محمد ملک ALA-LC: born 1936)[1] is a Pakistani literary critic, linguist and a scholar.
[3] He has authored several books including an essay "Iqbal Inspired Humour: A Note on Parodies by Selected Urdu Poets" published in Of Clowns and Gods, Brahmans and Babus - Humour in South Asian Literatures.
[1] Malik was close to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who personally requested him to edit the daily Mussawaat around the 1970 general election, both sharing the common ideology of Islamic socialism, while later Malik would become a press secretary to Hanif Ramay, also a PPP politician and the Chief Minister of Punjab for 1974-1975.
He served as Rector of the International Islamic University, Islamabad until 2012 when he was sacked by then President Zardari under pressureof from the Saudi government.
Before being sacked from his post, he criticized Saudi Arabia's practices as uncivilized and anti-women during a seminar.