Famous Afghan Poets - Famous Poets from Afghanistan
The Afghan famous poets section is an educational source of information and inspiration featuring reknown Afghan poets. Here you will find famous Afghan Poets of our time and times past. Please let us know if we are missing a well-known Afghan poet and we'll add him or her.
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Khan Khattak,
Khushal
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Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689) (Pashto: ) was a prominent Pashtun poet, warrior, and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe. He wrote a huge collection of Pashto poems during the Mughal Empire in the 17th century, and admonished Afghans (Pashtuns or Pakhtuns) to forsake their divisive tendencies and unite against the Mughal Army. Promoting Afghan nationalism through poetry, he was a renowned military fighter who became known as the "Afghan Warrior Poet". Khushal Khan lived in the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountains in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan.. Pashtun Afghan poet warrior charismatic personality and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe
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