Khatir Afridi () (1929 – August 24, 1968) was born as Meesri Khan () in
Landi Kotal
Lanḍī Kōtal (, ) or Lwargai ( ''Lwāṛgai'') is a town in the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, and the administrative capital of Khyber District. It was one of the largest towns in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas, an ...
District
Khyber in the province of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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. He was a
Pashto
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language poet from
Pakistan
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.
Life
He was born in the Zakha Khel tribe in Saddu Khel village of Khyber agency. He was a gardener by profession in a nearby high school (now a F.C. fort). He never went to school for formal education.
He was a closed friend of Ashna.
His grave in Saddu khel graveyard which have a small tample. And have written a poetry in his grave (Che pa qabar may tery gy Hudy da para : Lag sha mata hapa newaly za ba mar yam)
He wrote songs that became popular in
Pakistan
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and
Afghanistan
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. He joined a poetry society where he got guidance from
Hamza Shinwari and Nazir Shinwari. He had
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is a contagious disease usually caused by ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can al ...
for ten years and died at the age of 39, leaving behind a son who compiled his father's work into a volume with help from his cousin.
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Pashto-language poets
Pakistani poets
Pashtun poets
Pashtun male writers
1929 births
1968 deaths
People from Khyber District
Afridi people
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