Muhammad Abdul Shakoor (November 1911 – January 2001) was a Pakistani journalist who worked as the senior most Assistant Editor of Dawn and the London Correspondent of the Pakistan Times.

His uncle, Vakkom Moulavi, was a visionary, social reformer, scholar, educationist, writer, journalist and the founder of Swadeshabhimani newspaper.

After doing a short course in journalism at the Aligarh University, he joined the 'Orient Press of India,' the first Muslim news agency in the subcontinent, in 1942.

[2] In and around 1954, when the Muslim League government became obsessed with the ‘danger of communism’ and launched a witch-hunt against progressive elements in the country.

During his imprisonment, he suffered a great deal and after his release, he left the country and fled to London out of utmost frustration and despair.

It was Shakoor who translated Thakazhi's Randidangazhi in English under the title 'Two Measures of Rice', first serialized in the 'Illustrated Weekly of India' and later brought out by Jaico Books.