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Muhammad Zai Khan
As Abdul Ghani Khan spoke about Pakhtoons/Pashtuns/Pakhtuns:The people I love, which makes my task harder than ever.Pakhtuns, the simply amazing and amazingly simple people, are not easy to love. Pakhtun takes a lot of knowing. Pakhtun is the most complicated simplicity. I want to bring him down from the hills of Khyber and the plains of Hashtnager, face to face with you in his torn clothes and grass sandals, his eyes full of manliness, mirth and mischievous sprite, and his head full of infantile and noble pride - the paramount camouflage he uses to hide his desi...
Friday, July 31, 2009
QALANDAR MOHMAND
QALANDAR MOHMANDSahibzada who became Qalandar of PashtoShaheen Buneri The eminent Pushto writer, poet, playwright, linguist, critic, research scholar and the patron chairman of the Peshawar Press Club, Prof Habibur Rehman Qalandar Momand, breathed his last here in Peshawar last year.Qalandar was born on 1st September, 1930. After passing his matriculation examination with distinction, he got admission at historic Islamia College. From his early days, he had a special flair for literary and research pursuits. He was a true revolutionary who worked all his life for the social, political and cultural emancipation of his people. He got his MA in...
Khatir Afridi
Khatir Afridi whose real name was Misree Khan was born in 1929 at Landikotal to Zakha Khel Afridi. He gained tremendous mass popularity, next only to Rahman Baba, due to his simple style and the deep pathos in his poetry.Khatir was a few days old when his father died but his grandfather and uncle reared him very well and raised him like a son. Khatir, unfortunately, could not go to school. He took up a job at the Khyber Rifle's camp as a gardener and later on entered the line of private business. But he was fond of poetry and he learnt to compose verses to the tunes of the rabab which was played by the maestro, Bagh-i-Haram, a resident of Malikdeen...
Ghani Khan wrote a little skittish poem about Pashtoons
The Great philosopher Pashto poet Ghani Khan wrote a little skittish poem about Pashtoons that depicts their temperament given below:The great pot maker of fate was sitting in heaven.This great potter of fate was making a donkey,when the order came to make a Khan.So the potter cut off its tail and sculpted its ears,on its forehead he put a spot of temperand in the donkey`s brain he put the diseaseof being ahead of everyone, being a leader, andthen he put a beautiful turban on his head andshooed him towards the wor...
Ghani Khan -------The Renaissance Man
In his famous book, A brief History of Time, Dr. Stephen Hawking examines the nature of the universe, and explains that modern laws of time and space no longer distinguish between the past and the future. He goes on to discuss "the psychological arrow of time" which enables us to see the past, but not the future and rejects the possibility of memory being reversed if the universe started to shrink instead of expanding as it is now.But in the aura of space and time, and cycle of change only few people would survive- those who are close to nature and beauty. The reflection of nature in their works in whatever form it may be would give them an unending...
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Film on ‘Frontier Gandhi’ to be release in the US
A new documentary film detailing the life of Pashtun leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as the “The Frontier Gandhi” for his espousal of non-violent means for political change in the region, will premiere in the US next month. ‘The Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan, a Torch for Peace’ was directed by filmmaker and writer T C McLuhan, daughter of Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan, who says she spent 21 years to bring Khan’s story to the screen. Sixty-year-old McLuhan made numerous trips to Afghanistan and other places linked to Khan’s life even as American bombs fell in Taliban-held Afghanistan after the September 11 terror attacks and through the dangerous times that followed to shoot the film, the Los Angeles Times reported. She filmed in India, Afghanistan and Pakistan’s...
Monday, July 27, 2009
Khudai Khidmatgar
Khudai Khidmatgar literally translates as the servants of God. It represented a non-violent freedom struggle against the British Empire by the Pashtuns of the North West Frontier Province(Pukhtunistan). The movement was led by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Bacha Khan/Badshah Khan).Conditions prior to the movementAt the turn of the last century Pakhtuns ociety was colonized, stagnant, and violent,worn down by feuds, inequalities, factionalism, poor social cooperation, andplain ignorance. Education opportunities were strictly limited. Pukhtuns are Muslim; Mullahs were known to have told parents that if their...
GHANI KHAN(DUA)
سترګو د جانان کې زما ښکلي جهانونه دي وادېخله دنيا زه وږی ستا د دنيا نه يم ګوره د فقير کچکول کې تاج د سکندر پروت دی زه يم د سخيانو د شومانو ګدا نه يم زه يې په غرور درنه د مينې په نوم غواړمه زه ملنګ بې نيازه ستا د وير واويلا نه يم يو د سپوږمۍ څاڅکی درنه ټيک له د جانان غواړم زه يم د خوبونو د لعلونو ګدا نه يم هغه مستي غواړم چې يې مرګ نشي وژلی زه دې د غمونو د بېګا او سبا نه يم تشه دنياګۍ که دې بښې نو ای اميره! ستا شوه ستا دنيا زه وږی ستا د دنيا نه...
Muhammad Zai
دا قوم د هشتنګر په تپه کښ اوسږېږي چه دا اته کلي په کښې دي. تنګي، شير پاؤ، عمر زي، ترنګزي، اتمانزي، رزړ، چارسده، پړانګ. دا علاقه د سوات په سيند اوبېږي ځکه ئې ټوله زمکه څربه او زوروره ده. او خلق ئې اسوده او خوشحال دي. په تيره تيره ئې خانان چه په ټوله صوبه کښ د هر چا نه لوئ او مالدار زميندار دي. او د هغو عزيزانو او اقرباؤ اعلي اعلي تعليمونه کړي دي او په سول او پولس او فوځ کښ لوئ لوئ عهدې لري او د لوئ عزت خاوندان دي. د سرخ پوشو مرکز هم په دې تپه کښ دې. او دلته يو ازاد سکول هم شته. د سول نافرمانې په دوران کښ د دې ځائ خلقو ډير کار کړې دي. که ريښتيا مې پوښتې نو دا خوشحالي او بيغمي او لياقت او تعليم او دا د ازادي خيال د سرکار د امن په برکت د دوئ نصيب شوې دي. ځکه د درانو او سکهانو په حکومت کښ په دې خلقو داسې داسې ظلمونه شوي دي چه تر اوس پورې ئې سپين ږيري مشران خبې کوي او چه بنده ئې واوري نو وجود ئې...
MALANG JAN
دا زمونږ زيبا وطن دا زمونږ ليلا وطن دا وطن مو ځان دی دا پښتونستان دی دا دمينې کور زمونږ دا د پلرو ګور زمونږ نه ورکوؤ چا لره دا د سترګو تور زمونږ نه دی د بل چا وطن دا دی د شيرشاه وطن کور د خوشحال خان دی دا پښتونستان دی دا وطن دی ځان زمونږ دا وطن ايمان زمونږ وايي په خاپوړو کېداسې ماشومان زمونږ دا مو د بابا وطن دا مو د دادا وطن په مونږ باندې ډير ګران دی دا پښتونستان دی ځار يې له سيندونو شم ځار يې له ډاګونو شم ځار يې له خوړونو شم ځار يې له دی غرونو شم دا زمونږ اشنا وطن درد له مو شفاء وطن ...
LOVE OF INDEPENDENCE
One of the outstanding characteristics of the Pukhtoons, as gleaned from their record, is their passionate love for freedom and violent opposition to any infringement of their liberty. They have preserved their liberty by the force of arms despite heavy odds. Inspite of their ignorance of military science, modern techniques of warfare, lack of sophisticated weapons and material resources, they held their own against every invader, including the British who were one of the most powerful empire builders of their time. Though at times Pukhtoons were temporarily subdued, they could never be held in permanent subjugation or tied in the shackles of bondage. They offered staunch resistance to any one who ventured to encroach upon their liberty and refused to submit tamely to the position of the vanquished....
PICTURE ALBUM 2
faridone khan painting made by ghani khanpainting made by ghani khan bacha khan with ghandighani khan roomghani grand...
REHMAN BABA
One of the great religious scholar of Swat (A city in current Pakistan), Swat Sahib, said: "If any other then, the book of God, was permissible for prayer, I would have defiantly chosen Rahman's book." At the dawn of seventeenth century, at the age of invasions from the West by Persians and East by Moghols, a the time when Afghans were in the mist of war in every corner of the nation, a the time when education was the last thing in peoples' mind, a legend was born. In the high hills of the Afghan nation, in the provincial area of Mohmand, a child was born, by...
HAMZA BABA POETRY
Why my love's face wrinkles in smile in the mirror, Her loveliness increases and excels tremendously. Since the inducement of her face is similar to spring, The amazement of the mirror changed into a garden. The devout seem sorrow stricken externally, But he doesn't have any sorrow in the heart. The human beings have to face some constrains, On the way of their free will. You can see glimpses of the beauty in my amazement, You don't need to have a mirror. Is it the effect of cosmetics or thy own youth, Which radiates...
Hamza Shinwari
Amir Hamza Shinwari, the legendry poet, scrip writer, dramatist, and a saint, is commonly known as 'Baba-e-Ghazal' (the father of Pakhto Ghazal). Hamza Baba himself testified the fact in a couplet, that: The crimson of color in your cheeks, Is the color of the blood of Hamza. You came of age, Pashto Ghazal, But turned me into an old Baba Hamza Baba, son of the rugged mountains of the...
PICTURE ALBUM 1
ghani khanwife of ghani khanmade by ghani khanmade by ghani khan bacha khanghani k...
HISTORY OF PUKHTOON
The theory that the Pashtun or "ethnic Afghans" are descended from the ancient Israelites—more precisely, from the perspective of Jewish history the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel— has a longstanding basis as a tradition among the Pashtun themselves, was widely accepted by 19th century British scholars, and has been accepted by some reasonably recent and prominent individuals such as Itzhak Ben-Zvi, second President of Israel. However, contemporary anthropologists continue to debate this, putting forth an eastern Iranian people relation to the other peoples of the Iranian plateau based upon strong genetic and linguistic evidence, in addition to other possibilities such as admixture with invaders and groups that migrated to the region now inhabited by the Pashtu...
Kalabagh Dam (KBD)
For the past so many years of its planning and designing, the objectives and goals of Kalabagh Dam (KBD) have been shrouded in secrecy, and the Federal Government’s blind following of the project, against the wishes of the three provinces of the federation, has made it the most controversial issue of national integrity.
The project is being pleaded as a turning point in the direction of national development, whereas the provinces see it as step towards the diversion of common resources towards the development of one province (Punjab), leaving all the rest to the possible negative impacts perceived from the project. The matter becomes more complex in the present state of better possible alternatives, having greater development potentials and lesser negative impacts on any of the federating...
