Khushal Khan Khattak

Life and work

Introduction

Khushal Khan Khattak was a seventeenth-century poet, writer, tribal leader, and warrior. His life encompassed service to the Mughal court, imprisonment, resistance, and a sustained call for Pashtun unity.

In poetry and prose, Khushal wrote about love, ethics, medicine, hunting, politics, and courage. His vast literary legacy helped establish Pashto as a complete intellectual and literary language.

The most wide-ranging author in classical Pashto literature and one of the principal founders of Pashtun national thought.

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