Khushal Khan Khattak Great Pashto Poet Biography-History and Pictures

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689) (Pashto: خوشحال خان خټک) 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.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRMW0EAJlwVKslJUaPEO33dxCHzKJIQFNoqbr_PL3-DI5JemlPrqfz9yVGyruJy3bCRFvhkBngMhiR-yyCMbZfvOgmhpzdmVyD0MN5NmfBgaSBCnFj2-pcyJyV0L_DWCwOWJ8N-FXXft6W/s1600/Khushal+Khan+Khattak+%25282%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRMW0EAJlwVKslJUaPEO33dxCHzKJIQFNoqbr_PL3-DI5JemlPrqfz9yVGyruJy3bCRFvhkBngMhiR-yyCMbZfvOgmhpzdmVyD0MN5NmfBgaSBCnFj2-pcyJyV0L_DWCwOWJ8N-FXXft6W/s400/Khushal+Khan+Khattak+%25282%2529.jpg" width="325" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiULLnaof_4Mk1QnK0P90bhGSorkpK8o4H9DcNDLP_LN9D4zw5IIYLqdayKF66kt9jdajQJLfCBPVZt-dhAX57St_GZdqZuF24MSeXj_L9XEwnoFK4dgHh5R200sj8VaVy78pZWL_0v82F4/s1600/Khushal+Khan+Khattak.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiULLnaof_4Mk1QnK0P90bhGSorkpK8o4H9DcNDLP_LN9D4zw5IIYLqdayKF66kt9jdajQJLfCBPVZt-dhAX57St_GZdqZuF24MSeXj_L9XEwnoFK4dgHh5R200sj8VaVy78pZWL_0v82F4/s320/Khushal+Khan+Khattak.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div>

Khushal Khan Khattak Great Pashto Poet Biography-History and Pictures

Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689) (Pashto: خوشحال خان خټک) was a prominent Pashtun poet, warrior, and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe. He w...

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