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Khushal Khan Khattak

The document provides a brief overview of notable Pashtun figures, including poets, warriors, and political leaders, who played significant roles in the history and literature of the Pashtun people. It highlights their contributions to resistance against colonial powers and their impact on Afghan and Indian history. Key individuals mentioned include Khushal Khan Khattak, Ahmad Shah Abdali, and Malala Yousafzai, among others.

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Khushal Khan Khattak

The document provides a brief overview of notable Pashtun figures, including poets, warriors, and political leaders, who played significant roles in the history and literature of the Pashtun people. It highlights their contributions to resistance against colonial powers and their impact on Afghan and Indian history. Key individuals mentioned include Khushal Khan Khattak, Ahmad Shah Abdali, and Malala Yousafzai, among others.

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KHUSHAL KHAN KHATTAK

Khushal baba was a Pashtun poet, warrior,


and tribal chief who is considered a major
figure in Pashto literature.(1613–1689)
SHER JAN KAKAR

During British rule, a local man named Sher


Jan shot the local agent, Major Barne at
zhob DC office,and fought for freedom
from coloniel british raj.
ABDUL SAMAD KHAN ACHAKZAI

Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai was a Pashtun nationalist


and political leader in the British Indian province of
Baluchistan. He was a prominent figure in the Indian
subcontinent's independence movement and is known
as "Khan Shaheed" .
SARDAR SHERAK ABDULLAHZAI KAKAR

(sherak nika)

Sardar sherak abdullahzai was a renowned


freedom fighter along with his army against british
raj at zhob city.
MIRWAISE KHAN HOTAK

(MIRWISE BABA)
Mirwais Khan Hotak (1673–1715) was a Afghan ruler and leader
of the Hotak dynasty of Kandahar, Afghanistan, and the short-
lived founder of the Hotak dynasty.who led a successful rebellion
against the declining Persian Safavid empire in the region of Loy
Kandahar .
GHAZI FATEH KHAN BARECH

Ghazi fateh khan barech and his 60


companians captured the dehli from mughal
empiror jhangir son of akhbar,he reinstate
afghan rule at india.
AHMED SHAH ABDALI

Ahmad Shah Abdali, also known as Ahmad Shah


Durrani or Ahmad Khan Abdali, was the founder of the
Durrani Empire and the contemporary state of
Afghanistan. Ahmad Shah Abdali (or Ahmad Shah
Durrani), who was chosen to succeed Nadir Shah after
the latter's death in 1747, repeatedly RULED India
between 1748 and 1767.
SULTAN MAHMUD GHAZNAVI
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Mahmud of Ghazni (971-1030) was a ruler of the


Ghaznavid Empire and the first to use the title
"sultan" in a secular sense Mahmud expanded the
empire to include much of what is now Iran,
Afghanistan,Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan,
and Pakistan.
SHER SHAH SURI ( FARID KHAN)

Sher Shah Suri (1486 - 1545) was an Afghan ruler who


founded the Suri dynasty in India and took control of the
Mughal Empire.
AYUB KHAN OF MAIWAND

On July 27, 1880, Ayub Khan led the Afghan forces to victory
over the British Ayub Khan (1857-1914) was an Afghan general
who led the Afghan troops against the British in the Second
Anglo-Afghan War at the Battle of Maiwand. The British force
was smaller, but the Afghans suffered heavy losses, with 2,050–
2,750 killed and 1,500 wounded. The British lost 1,200.
GHAZI AMANULLAH KHAN

Ghazi Amanullah Khan (1892 - 1960) was the ruler


of Afghanistan from 1919 to 1929. Amanullah's rule
was marked by political and social
change.Amanullah is considered a pioneer of
modernization in Afghanistan.
HAJI MIRZA ALI KHAN

(FAQIR OF API)
The Faqir of Ipi, also known as Haji Mirzali Khan
Wazir, was a Pashtun freedom fighter who fought
against the British Raj in the early 20th century
MALALA OF MAIWAND

A national hero of Afghanistan who


fought in the Second Anglo-Afghan
War. She is known as "The Afghan Jeanne
d'Arc" or "The Afghan Molly Pitcher.
BAKHT NAMA ANA
(KAKAR)

SHE WAS an amazing Feminist Pashtun Freedom fighter


from Baluchistan. She fought against British Raj from 1925
to 1930. Later she was arrested and they hanged her in
Mach jail. She is an example of constant struggle, for the
rights of her people.
HAJI SAHIB OF TURANGAZI

Haji Sahib of Turangzai (real name Fazal


Wahid ; 1858 – December 14, 1937) was
a Pashtun freedom fighter and social worker
of Mohmand and the Ghorikhel tribe in the
late 19th century and early 20th century
MULLA POWINDAH

Mulla Powinda (Pashto: ‫ ) پونوده ملا‬or Mullah


Powindah, born Mohiuddin Maseed (Pashto: ‫ ددل ني‬i ‫م دح‬
‫( )ممادسد‬1863–1913), was a religious leader and a
freedom fighter from the Pashtun tribe of the Shabi
khel Mahsuds, based in Waziristan.
MASHOO KHAN SHERANI

Masho Khan Sherani is the most famous


personality of the area. He was an insurgent against
the British army before the division of the British
Hindustan
USMAN KHAN KAKAR (LALA)

Milli shaheed Muhammad Usman Khan Kakar (Pashto:


‫ ع ث نما کاک‬i; Urdu: ‫ ع ث نما کاا ڑک‬i), also known as Usman Lala (‫ ع ث نما لالا‬i),
was a Pakistani politician affiliated with the Pashtunkhwa
Milli Awami Party (PMAP) and a Pashtun Tahafuz
Movement activist. He was a member of the Senate of
Pakistan from 2015 to 2021.
ABDUL RAHIM KHAN MANDOKHAIL

Baba-e-Afghan Abdul Rahim Khan


Mandokhail (Pashto: ‫دوول‬‫ نس ن‬὚ ‫ نما‬膩‫اکر د م ن‬i‫عسد‬i) (12 January
1937 – 20 May 2017) was a Pashtun Afghan
nationalist and politician .
SHAHEED PROFESSOR ARMAN LUNI

Mohammad Ibrahim Arman Loni (Pashto: ‫) ممد ع ک ا د م ام نما لپح‬, commonly


known as Arman Loni (or Arman Luni), was a Pakistani teacher of
Pashto literature, poet, and one of the founding leaders of
the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM).
SAHIN KAMAL KHAN SHERANI

Sain Kamal Khan Sherani is a prominent political leader


from south pashtunkhwa who hails from the Sherani tribe
in Balochistan.( 1924 -2010).) was the founding member
and leader of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party a
democratic Pashtun.
SHAHEED DR. NAJIBULLAH AHMADZAI

Dr. Najib, was an Afghan politician who served as the


General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of
Afghanistan.
M. ASHRAF GHANI AHMADZA

Mohammad Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 19 May 1949) is an


Afghan former politician, academic, and economist who
served as the president of Afghanistan from September 2014
until August 2021
SHAHEED BASHIR AHMED BILOUR

Bashir Ahmad Bilour, son of Bilour Khan, was a


prominent politician from Peshawar
Awami National Party.
MALALA YOUSAFZAI

She is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in


history, the second Pakistani and the only
Pashtun to receive a Nobel Prize.
MULANA SAMI UDDIN
SHAHEED UMAR KHAN SHERANI

Umer Sherani, the provincial organiser of the National


Democratic Movement (NDM), was killed when
unidentified men opened fire at him in Dera Ismail Khan's
Daraban Tehsil on Monday. Sherani, a close aide of NDM
leader Mohsin Dawar,
A B D U L H A M E E D B A B A

. Abdul Hameed baba Mashogagar was born


in the second half of the 17th century (1664-
1724 onward) at Mashogagar, a small village
near Badaber Peshawar, a Pashtun tribe.
Hameed travelled to Peshawar, where he
undertook his education, and became a priest.
AJMAL KHATTAK BABA

‫نڑ‬
Ajmal Khan Khattak (Pashto: ‫ ; عاثل نوک‬Urdu: ‫ ; عاثل رخک‬15
September 1925 – 7 February 2010) was a politician,
writer and Pashto language poet from North-West
Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa),
who served as the President of Awami National
Party. He was a close friend of Khan Abdul Wali
Khan.
NAZO ANA (TOKHI)

Nāzo Anā (1651–1717) was an Afghan poet,


writer, and warrior who is known as the
"Mother of the Afghan Nation"
DR.MANZOOR AHMED PASHTOON

Manzoor Ahmad Pashteen is a Pashtun human rights


activist and leader against enforced disappearances,
extrajudicial killings, and other human rights abuses
against Pashtun population in Pakistan.
SHAHEED M.ARIF WAZIR AFGHAN

Arif Wazir (Pashto: ‫ نا نما ن دوا ک‬i‫ ; ممد نمار ن‬2 May 1982 – 2 May 2020)
was a politician, activist, and a leader of the Pashtun
Tahafuz Movement (PTM). He was a member of the
Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PMAP) and its
president for the South Waziristan
Abdur Rahman Baba

Rahman Baba born on 1653 at Bahder Kalay,


Hazarkhwani, and Peshawar was a Pashtun poet
from Peshawar in the Mughal Empire (modern-
day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,Pakistan). He is
considered one of the most popular poets among
the Pashtuns in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
PALAY KHAN KHOSTI (KAKAR)

Palay Khan was an ethnic Pashtun from the Khosti


Kakar tribe in zhob, a freedom fighter, and commander
of the group that fought against the British Raj in 1930 in
Baluchistan (a Commissionerate Province). Khosti was
living in Zhob when he died on January 1, 1951.

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