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  Khushal Khan Khattak Summary
Khushal Khan was born in Akora (today in modern day district nowshera Pakistan), Malik Akoray, grandfather of Khushhal Khan, was the first Khattak to enjoy widespread fame during the reign of the Mughal King Jalal-ud-din Akbar.
Khushhal Khan Khattak was the son of Shahbaz Khan and was born in 1613.
The Mazar of Khushal Khan Khattak is situated near the Railway Station of Akora Khattak in Nowshera district.
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 Afghanland.com Afghanistan Khoshal Khan Khatak
After battle Khushal Khan retired as a warrior and used his pen to point to weaknesses of his society, he was not only a great warrior but had keen sense wordplay.
Khushal Khan Khatak had written many poems mostly patriotic about his roots, about his tribe, about his nation and triumphs over invaders.
Upon the new of the army's advance, Khushal Khan at the age of 77 suited up in his armored suit and drew his sword and called out; "Whoever are men amongst you, come to the word if you dare" The men returned to Bahram in shame.
www.afghanland.com /poetry/khatak.html   (582 words)

  
 Kaka Sahib - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shahbaz Khan and his son Khushal Khan (the Pashto poet) affiliated themselves to him, Khushal Khan Khattak wrote quite few verses about Kaka Sahib's life and his affiliation to him.
Khushal Khan Khattak's daughter was married to Kaka Sahib elder son Sheikh Zia-u-Din (Shaheed Baba).
Khushal Khan Khatak's brother Jamal Khan Khattak (Fakir Jamal Khan or Fakir Jamil Baig) affiliated himself to Kaka Sahib, He is burried in "Chashmai" near Nowshera.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kaka_Sahib   (1493 words)

  
 Khushal Khan Khattak Baba - Chai Khaana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Khushal Khan, still bitter from his earlier imprisonment, led his tribe against the Mughals that year and recorded the event in his diary and poems.
Khushal Khan's greatest battle was that mentioned in the poem as the third affair, when, with Afridis, he attacked and captured the fort at Nowshera.
Khushal Khan Khattak retired from the battlefield in disgust and used his pen to attack the weakness in his own society with same fervour with which he had previously used his sword.
www.pashto.org /chaikhaana/pashtun-matters-da-pakhtunu/1406-khushal-khan-khattak-baba.html   (1757 words)

  
 Pakistan Population   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
This dialect is spoken in Sargodha, Khushab and Mandi Bahawaldin districts.
This dialect is spoken in districs of Peshawar, Attoc, Nowshehra, Mansehra, Abbotabad and Murree.
Khushal Khan Khatak (1613-89) and Rehman Baba (1633-1708) were some big poets in Pashto language.
mazhar.dk /pakistan/population.htm   (899 words)

  
 Khushal Khan Khattak
Khoschal Khan Khattak hasn't seen the individual education and the social education as a contrast but was of the opinion that all individual education happens in the social room and all social education focuses on the single personality.
Khoschal Khan Khattak is the first Afghan mentor who presents his theories for the unity of the afghan, resistance against the foreign parts and the creation of a nation-state.
Khoschal Khans of last years of life were very painful, because of the opposition to the Mogulhof he has gone to the area of the Aftidistamms and has died there.
www.afghanan.net /biographies/khoshalbaba.htm   (1678 words)

  
 WPJ Winter 2002/03 - The Invention of Pakistan: How the British Raj Sundered by Meyer
Nehru and the Khan brothers thus had valid grounds for doubting Caroe’s impartiality when the viceroy took the unusual step of approving a plebiscite on the future of the frontier province—elsewhere the choice between India and Pakistan was made by provincial ministries or princely rulers.
Khan Sahib was subsequently jailed and later made his peace with Islamabad, serving briefly as a Pakistani minister before he was slain by an unforgiving Pashtun in 1957 in Lahore.
Otherwise, the khan of khans was simply scrubbed from history—so wholly forgotten that even in the post9/11 deluge of dispatches from Pakistan, the sole reference to Ghaffar Khan this writer noted in any American publication lay deep within a New Yorker article by the British journalist Isabel Hilton.
www.worldpolicy.org /journal/articles/wpj03-1/meyer.html   (8410 words)

  
 Pashto
Subsequently, Khushal Khan Khattak came to be known "The father of Pashto".
During thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, as a result of the large-scale displacement of Indo-Tajik and Indo-Aryan populations by the armies of Ghengiz Khan and Tamerlane, the Pakhtoons were able to occupy the Ghazni plateau, part of the Peshawar plains, Kohat, Bannu and areas in the vicinity of Kabul.
The second movement was led by Khushal Khan Khatak (1613-39), the great Pakhtoon poet who turned against the Moghul emperor Aurangzeb, became the first Pakhtoon political prisoner at the Rathanbor fort where he spent four years behind bars, and then formed a grand alliance with the Yusufzais to wage war on the Moghuls.
home.tiscali.de /aftab/html/pashto_1_.html   (3155 words)

  
 Afghanistan | Taliban | Soviet Union | Osama bin Laden | September 11th | War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Khushal Khan Khattak: Khushal Khan Khattak was born in 1613.
He was a famous Afghan warrior, poet and tribal chief of the Khatak tribe.
Osama Bin Laden: This stinkin' rich businessman was actually born in Saudi Arabia (to one of that country's wealthiest families) and not in Afghanistan.
www.kidzworld.com /site/p1434.htm   (712 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Khattak or Khatak (Urdu: خٹک) is a Pashtun tribe.
Khattak tribe is concentrated in North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.
A warrior poet by the name of Khushal Khan Khattak (1613-1690) belonged to this tribe, and his contributions to Pushto literature are considered as classic texts.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Khattak   (1031 words)

  
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The resolution moved by Pir Muhammad Khan from Swat, was debated by the members of ANP who wanted to amend the resolution by inserting the provision of education in mother tongue.
Mian Iftikhar Hussain (ANP) and Abdur Rahman Khan (ANP), Mian Muzaffar Shah (ANP) and Akram Khan Durrani (JUI-F) suggested amendment in the resolution and said that provision of education in mother tongue be made compulsory in the educational institutions.
The resolution of Abdur Rahman Khan regarding provision of natural gas to some villages in his constituency was also passed unanimously by the house.
www.karachipage.com /news/nov97/112197.txt   (5047 words)

  
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Khushal Khan Khatak and Rehman Baba are two famous Pushto poets.
The Muslim League was founded in 1906 at Dhaka due to the movement of Nawab Saleem Ullah Khan.
Liaquat Ali Khan born in 1895 and become the secretary general of Muslim in 1936.
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 Khushal Khan Khatak
Khoshal Khan Khatak was not only a great warrior but had keen sense wordplay.
Khoshal Khan Khatak had written many poems mostly patriotic about his roots, about his tribe, about his nation and triumphs over invaders.
Khoshal Khan Khatak wrote excellent poetry in Pashto about such things as unity, honor, war, love, and everyday life.
watanonline1.8m.com /khatak.html   (154 words)

  
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Again, in the reign of Aurangzeb, a frontal attack on the legitimacy of his rule was made by the Pashtun leader, Khushal Khan Khatak, though in this case from the standpoint of orthodox Islam.
Significantly, in Khushal Khan's poetic and other literary works, there was also an explicit and nostalgic yearning for the time of Sher Shah Sur, the Afghan who had expelled the Mughal ruler Humayun from Hindustan.
In the wake of the Afshar conqueror's death, a congregation of Pashtun khans at a shrine near Qandahar elected Ahmad Khan to be their leader.
www.history.upenn.edu /coursepages/hist086/material/Regional.html   (7752 words)

  
 Afghanistan: Early Afghan literature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Jalalaluddin Rumi Balkhi (1207-1273, also known as Rumi) is considered one of the greatest Sufi poets writing in Persian and is also known as the founder of the ‘whirling dervishes’.
Khushal Khan Khatak’s grandson Afdal Khan authored an important history of the Pashtun.
By the late 19th century Pashtu sung poetry had been formalised at the royal court into the classical genre known as ghazal, in recognition of the fact that music can be a powerful way to deliver great poetry.
www.culturalprofiles.org.uk /Afghanistan/Directories/Afghanistan_Cultural_Profile/-770.html   (309 words)

  
 Pakistan Times | Top Story: Musharraf Reiterates: Creation of Dams Must for Progress, Prosperity
He said NWFP is the land of great Sufis Khushal Khan Khatak and Hazrat Kaka Sahib, who preached real values of Islam including peace, tolerance and love for all.
Interior Minister and President PPP, Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said President Musharraf's policies have brought the country a new elevated status in the comity of nations.
He said the people of NWFP hold the President in high esteem and support his policies as these are in the interest of the country.
pakistantimes.net /2005/03/03/top.htm   (900 words)

  
 Swarajya - The Trouble with Infallibility
Fahim Khan, who took over after the assassination of the legendary Ahmad Shah Massoud, has already called for a military council, a euphemism for a junta, to rule Afghanistan till such time other more constitutional arrangements are made.
The original script of the poems of Khushal Khan Khatak was in Pashtu.
The Durrani Ahmad Khan at the age of twenty-four was soon after elected Shah of Afghanistan by a meeting of the chiefs of the various tribes called a loya jirga which was held near Kandahar.
www.indogram.com /swarajya/afghanistan.html   (1705 words)

  
 Karachi News
City Nazim Naimatullah Khan, commenting on the attack on the Nazim's office had said that those involved in the attack could be the elements who wanted to make the new system of government unsuccessful.
Police officials, however, held a different opinion; the city police chief had counted it as an act of terrorism as his cops were the target of the terrorists.
The demonstration was held to press the administration to register a murder case against the officials involved in the October 14 incident in Jacobabad as well as against the US-led attacks on Afghanistan.
www.karachipage.com /news/Nov_01/110901.html   (2468 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Khatak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Afghan poetry of the seventeenth century: Being selections from the poems of Khush Hal Khan Khatak : with translations and grammatical introduction by Khwushhal Khan (Unknown Binding - 1983)
The poems of Khushhal Khan Khatak by Khwushhal Khan (Unknown Binding - 1988)
Jamiat Ulema-e Islam in Akora Khatak, 65 kilometers east of Peshawar.
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Khatak&index=blended&page=1   (554 words)

  
 Yearwise detail of MQM's atrocities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
On February 1, in the central committee meeting of Awami National Party at Lahore that was presided by Khan Abdul Wali Khan, a resolution was passed stating that Sindh's Mohajirs were a part of the larger Sindhi nationality, and that there was no such thing as a Mohajir nationality.
On September 29, a spokesman of MQM said that the party considered Khanabdul Wali Khan and Abdul Ghaffar Khan as the true representatives of the Pukhtoons.
Copies of dailies" Jang" and "The News" were burnt in thousands, and MQM chairman, Azim Tariq, openly threatened journalists when he said in a public meeting that they should "keep their Ka'aba in the right direction".
www.fas.org /irp/world/para/docs/yearwise_detail_mqm.htm   (13867 words)

  
 Business Recorder [Pakistan's First Financial Daily]
He said NWFP is the land of great Sufis Khushal Khan Khatak and Hazrat Kaka Sahib, who preached real values of Islam including peace, tolerance and love for all.
Interior Minister and President PPPI Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said President Musharraf's policies have brought the country a new elevated status in the comity of nations.
He said the people of NWFP hold the President in high esteem and support his policies as these are in the interest of the country.
www.brecorder.com /index.php?id=203019&currPageNo=1&query=&search=&term=&supDate=   (883 words)

  
 Pashto
The first written records of Pashto are believed to date from the sixteenth century and consist of an account of Sheikh Mali's conquest of Swat.
In the seventeenth century, Khushal Khan Khatak, considered the national poet of Afghanistan, was writing in Pashto.
In this century, there has been a rapid expansion of writing in journalism and other modern genres which has forced innovation of the language and the creation of many new words.
watanonline2.8m.com /pashto.html   (379 words)

  
 B.l.a.c.k...B.o.a.r.d...: Are you Pukhtun first or muslim?
It is because of Pukhtunwali, Yousafzai's and Khattaks are living peacefully after Yousafzai's gave assylum and shelter to Khushal Khan Khatak when mughal's turned against him.
Indeed Pukhtunwali is very infelxibal, yet it by no means conflict with Islam and all the issues have been carried out smoothly till now.
This is why when Khan Wali Khan was asked if he considered himself a Pakistani Muslim first or a Pukhtun, by stating that: "I have been a Pukhtun for six thousand years, a Muslim for thirteen hundred years, and a Pakistani for twenty-five."
croakysaky.blogspot.com /2005/10/are-you-pukhtun-first-or-muslim.html   (678 words)

  
 Poems of Khushal Khan Khatak, Qaumi Islahi Anjuman, Pakhtunistan
Poems of Khushal Khan Khatak, Qaumi Islahi Anjuman, Pakhtunistan
Adopted from: POEMS FROM THE DIVAN OF KHUSHAL KHAN KHATTAK."
Publisher: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd. Ruskin House, Museum Street.
www.angelfire.com /ak/khyberlinks/khushal.html   (51 words)

  
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But the present form of Pashto alphabet, initiated by Pashto Tolana (official English name), rectified and agreed upon by scholars in Afghanistan and Pahtunkhwa, has become popular and is widely accepted for writing Pashto.
The era of Khoshal Khan, his sons and his grandsons is considered the golden age of Pashto literature.
We will have a headless body, as the saying goes, if Landie and Khoshal Khatak are taken awy from Pashto literature.
pashtoweb.com /ABriefIntroductiontoPashtoLanguage2(english).doc   (882 words)

  
 Khushhal Khan
Biddulph, C.D. Afghan Poetry: Selections from the poems of Khush Hal Khan Khattak.
Rough transcriptions of the first lines of 16 poems by Khushhal Khan Khattak are given below.
These recordings were made using the HandC text as recited by Dawa Khan, a Yusufzai whose dialect is discussed elsewhere; click the right-hand buttons to hear the recitations.
lrrc3.sas.upenn.edu /heston/literature/khan/khan.html   (497 words)

  
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Tahir A. Khan, who was chief guest at the mushaira, announced three cash awards for the best writings appearing during the current year.
One Interflow Literary Award of Rs one lakh will be given to the best poetry collection, another award of the same amount will be given to the best prose writing and a Jamal Ehsani award of Rs50,000 will go to the best writer coming from the younger lot.
With Senior poet Tabish Dehlavi in the chair, Saleem Raz briefly narrated the eventful history of Pushto poetry from Moghal King Akber's period till present times, touching the contribution made by Khushal Khan Khatak, Baba Rehman and others.
home.worldonline.dk /askaris/images   (1160 words)

  
 Afghanistan : Bonn meet to draw up road map of government,India and the World, News Analysis, India News Online
Ismail Khan, the man who rules over Herat and six other provinces on the Iranian border, is also a Pakhtoon.
Another Tajik general, Ismail Khan, long blessed by Moscow, has one again taken his old bastion, the town of Herat.
The Durrani Ahmad Khan at the age of 24 was soon after elected Shah of Afghanistan by a meeting of the chiefs of the various tribes called a loya jirga which was held near Kandahar.
news.indiamart.com /news-analysis/afghanistan-bonn-mee-4832.html   (7127 words)

  
 Afghanistan Postcards & Afghani Post Cards
"Afghanistan, Khushal Khan, Khatak, / (1613-89), He Said: I have taken up the / sword to defend the pride of Afghan." fl and white portrait within a beige border, 2001 copyright, unused oversize postcard, tiny corner bump.
"Afghanistan, Mirwais Khan Hotaki, / (1709-38) he defeated Safavids at Guinabad / in 1722" fl and white portrait, 2000 copyright, unused oversize postcard, light but extensive surface abrasions that can be seen in just the right light.
"Greetings from Afghanistan" showing Ghazi Sardar M. Fateh Khan, a key to the defeat of the British Army in the 19th century; signed portrait in fl and white within a beige border, 2001 copyright, excellent condition.
www.judnick.com /Afghanistan.htm   (4452 words)

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