Kausar Niazi (Urdu: کوثر نیازی‎), born as Muhammad Hayyat Khan and commonly known as Maulana Kausar Niazi (21 April 1934–1994), was a Pakistani politician and a religious leader in Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP). Niazi, in Bhutto's premiership cabinet, was a most powerful federal minister in Pakistan during 1974 till 1977. Niazi was among one of the close aid and trusted confident of Bhutto who remained loyal to Bhutto until his death.