Akbar Barakzai was born in Shikarpur Sindh in 1939. He recived his early education from Karachi and later he graduated from University of Karachi.
Akbar Barakzai who had living in exile for over half a century, ranks amongst the forerunners of the modern Balochi verse. He was forced to leave the country due to his active role in Baloch politics back in the early 1970s.
In 2020, in a protest against government’s policies on Balochistan turned down an award given to him for the best work in Balochi prose for his book “Zuban Zanti o Balochi Zuban” (Linguistics and Balochi Language) awarded by the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islambad.
Barakzai was not a prolific writer. Rather he often used to call himself a part time poet. In a literary career that runs over half a century, he only managed to bring out two anthologies of his poetry under the title “Rocha Kay Kosht Kant? (Who Can Snuff Out the Sun?) and “Sarani Chirag” (The Lamps of Heads).
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