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Pashto language Pashto ( , ; , ) is an eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Khyb ...

poets.

Folkloric

* Amir Kror Suri

16th century

* Pir Roshan (1525–1585), poet, warrior, and intellectual

17th and 18th century

Mira Jan sail Momand (1910--1990) born in koda khel Momand * Khushal Khattak (1613–1689) born in Nowshaar Province,

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

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, he was a poet, warrior, and chief. *

Nazo Tokhi Nāzo Tokhī (نازو توخۍ), commonly known as Nāzo Anā (, "Nazo the grandmother"), was an Afghans, Afghan poet and writer in the Pashto language. Mother of the famous early-18th century List of monarchs of Afghanistan, Afghan king Mirwais ...

(1651–1717) born at Kandahar, she was a poet and mother of Mirwais Hotak. * Rahman Baba (1653–1711) born at Lakkimarwat, poet. * Abdul Hamid Baba (?–c.1732) born near Peshawer, he was a poet. * Hussain Hotak (?–1738) born at Kandahar, poet, king. * Afzal Khan Khattak (?–c.1770) poet, grandson of Khushal Khattak. * Ahmad Shah Durrani (1723–1773) born at Kandahar he was a poet, king, founder of

. * Hafiz Alpuri (?–c. 1810), sufi poet from Shangla District. * Rahat Zakheli (1884-1963) born at Nowshera,

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

. He is the first

Pashto Pashto ( , ; , ) is an eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Khyb ...

novelist and first short story writer, who was also a poet. * Zarghona Anaa (died 1772) was the mother of Ahmad Shah Durrani.