1.             Dr. Ameer Arfi, Shehr-e-Ashoob: Ek Tajziya (Delhi: Maktaba Jama'ah, 1968), 23.

2.             Habib Jalib, Kulliyat-e-Jalib (Lahore: Tahir Sons Publishers, 2010), 197.

3.             Habib Jalib, Sha'ir-e-Shola Nawa, Murtaba: Saeed Parvez (Karachi: Maktaba Daniyal, 1991), 38.

4.             Habib Jalib, Kulliyat-e-Jalib, 79.

5.              Ibid, 140.

6.              Ibid, 293.

7.              Islah Saharab, Adrish, Murtaba: Hussain Anjam (Karachi: Jadwah, August 1993), 218.

8.              Akhtar Hussain Jafri, Akhri Ujala (Kulliyat) (Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publishers, 2008), 213.

9.              Ibid, 239.

10.            Ibid, 68.

11.            Pars Jan, Liberal Azam Par Marxi Tanqeed (Lahore: Lal Salam Publications, 2021), 368.

12.           Akhtar Hussain Jafri, Akhri Ujala (Kulliyat), 223.

13.            Fahmida Riaz, Main Matti Ki Murti Hoon (Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publishers, 1988), 273.

14.            Ibid, 47.

15.            Fahmida Riaz, Sab Lal-o-Gohar (Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publishers, 2011), 132.

16.           Ibid, 343.

17.           Aamir Hussain, "Dibaacha," included in Sab Lal-o-Gohar, Fahmida Riaz, 17.