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Khushal Khattak

Died in 1689

Khushal Khattak was born in 1613 in Akora Khattak, near Peshawar, and died in February 1689 in Dambara, in Tirah. On the death of his father, in 1641, the emperor Shah Jahan made him chief of the Khattak tribe and an officer of the empire. Aurangzeb imprisoned him from 1658 to 1668; replaced afterwards by one of his sons, he turned against the Mughals and preached the union of the Pashtuns. He also wrote treatises in verse on falconry, medicine and religious duties, and an account of a journey to Swat. He is regarded as the father of Pashto poetry.

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