Muhammad Masood Tahir Hanfi (Urdu: محمد مسعود طاہر حنفی) is a Pakistani poet,[2][3] journalist, and former civil servant[4] based in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Hanfi led a team that assisted the 24-member Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reforms (PCCR) with research, references and documentation from June 2009 to March 2010.

In 2009, he was appointed as Joint Secretary of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to provide technical support to the Parliamentary oversight mechanism.

[19]As a focal person, Mr Hanfi oversaw the implementation of foreign assistance programmes in the National Assembly of Pakistan, including the United Nations Development Program and Inter-Parliamentary Union's (2004–09) Strengthening Democracy through Parliamentary Development Project (PLSP) (2004 – 08), and the USAID-funded Pakistan Legislative Strengthening Programme (PLSP) (2004–08), which focused on building the capacity of the legislature.

[2] The second poetry collection, Goongi Hijrat[4][21][22] (Urdu: گونگی ہجرت) was published in September 2019, which was well received[23][24][25] in literary circles in Pakistan and five US states – Maryland, New Jersey,[26] New York, Texas, and the capital Washington DC.

Mr Hanfi's fifth poetry collection, RashkeAflaak (Urdu: رشک افلاک), coincides with Pakistan's 75th birth anniversary.

[34] Mr Hanfi's sixth poetry collection, Awaaz-e-Gumshuda (Urdu: آواز گم شدہ), is published in January 2023.