| Khushal Khan Khattak |
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BIOGRAPHY Khushal Khan was the son of Shahbaz Khan and was born in Akora (now in Nowshera district, Pakistan ). His grandfather, Malik Akoray, was the first Khattak to enjoy widespread fame during the reign of the Mughal King Jalal-ud-din Akbar . Akoray moved from Teri (a village in Karak District ) to Sarai Akora, the town which Akoray founded and built. Akoray cooperated with the Mughals to safeguard the trunk route and was generously rewarded for his assistance. The Akor Khels, a clan named after Akoray, still hold a prominent position in the Khattak tribe. The Khattak tribe of Khushhal Khan now (2007) lives in areas of Kohat , Nowshera , Peshawar , Mardan and in other parts of the North-West Frontier Province. Khushhal Khan’s lifet can be divided into two important parts — during his adult life he was mostly engaged in the service of the Mughal King, and during his old age he was preoccupied with the idea of the unification of the Pashtuns. His first involvement in war occurred when he was just 13 years old. Shah Jehan appointed him as the tribal chief and Mansabdar at the age of 28 after the death of his father. By appointment of the Mughul emperor, Shah Jehan , Khushhal succeeded his father in 1641, but in 1658, Aurangzeb , Shah Jehan's successor, locked him away as a prisoner in the Gwaliar fortress in Delhi. http://www.afghanan.net/poets/khushhal.htm After Khushhal was permitted to return to Pashtun dominated areas (now constituting Pakistan), he incited the Afghans to rebel against the Mughal Emperor Aurenzeb http://www.geocities.com/scn_pk/apr20kmk.html. His grave carries the inscription:da afghan pa nang me watarla tura, nanagyalai da zamana khushal khattak yam "I have taken up the sword to defend the pride of the Afghan, I am Khushal Khattak, the honorable man of the age." Khushhal Khan Khattak died on February 25, 1689, in Dambara. www.afghanan.net/biographies/khoshalbaba.htm The Mazar of Khushal Khan Khattak is situated near the Railway Station of Akora Khattak in Nowshera district. N.W.F.P, Pakistan. Khushal Khan Khattak {Link without Title} PUBLISHED WORKS His poetry consists of more than 45,000 poems. According to some historians the number of books written by him is more than 200. His more famous books are Baz Nama, Fazal Nama, Distar Nama and Farrah Nama. Major Raverty was the first British writer who translated ninety eight poetic pieces of Khattak into English, the book is called Selections from the Poetry of Afghans published in 1862 in Kolkata. This was followed by Biddulph’s translation Selections from the Poetry of Khushhal Khan Khattak in 1890 published in London. Then, Evelyn Howell and Olaf Caroe jointly translated and published The Poems of Khushhal Khan Khattak in 1963 from the University of Peshawar. Another translation was the English translation was done by Dr N. Mackenzie (Poems from the Diwan of Khushhal Khan Khattak published from London in 1965). Dost Mohammad Khan Kamil was the first Pakhtoon scholar who initiated research on Khattak along scientific lines and penned down two important and comprehensive books, one in English called On a Foreign Approach to Khushhal and the other in Urdu titled Khushhal Khan Khattak published in 1952. Diwan-i- Khushhal Khan Khattak was published under the directive of H.W. Bellew in 1869 (Jail Press, Peshawar), the manuscript of which was provided by Sultan Bakhash Darogha, an employee of the British government. More recently his poetry has been translated again. http://www.khyber.org/pashtolanguage/poetry/khushalkhan/cupbearer.shtml Khushal Khan Khattak (Great Emblem of Gandhara Civilization), Poet: Khushal Khan Khattak, Translator: Hideki Ishizuka (Political Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in Pakistan), 68: PP, Price: Not listed, printed at Pan Graphics (Pvt) Ltd., Islamabad. Criticism of Pashtuns Khushal Khan Khattak was very frustrated with the state of his Pashtun people particularly those who had gone to India and had lost their ways by adopting the nature and intermarriage with the ethnic Indian peoples; he was very expressive about his frustration and anger toward his fellow Pashtuns in his poetry. In a poem called ''Pathans'', he writes:
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