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Khushal Khattak

1613 - 1689

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Khošāl Khān Khaṭak (Pashto: خوشال خان خټک; Urdu, Persian: خوشحال خان خٹک; 1613 – 20 February 1689), also known as Khushal Baba (Pashto: خوشال بابا), was a 17th-century Pashtun poet, chief, and warrior. Khushal Khan served the Mughal Empire protecting them from Pashtun warriors over most of his lifespan. After being expelled from his tribal chiefdom and replaced with his son by his Mughal superiors, Khushal Khan turned against the Mughals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Khushal Khattak has received more than 268,844 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Khushal Khattak is the 2,136th most popular writer (down from 2,105th in 2019), the 36th most popular biography from Pakistan (down from 28th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Pakistani Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Khushal Khattak ranks 2,136 out of 5,755Before him are Abraham ibn Daud, Thorbjørn Egner, Vera Brittain, Giovanni Battista Guarini, Harold Bloom, and Fredrika Bremer. After him are Thomas Gray, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, Aleksa Šantić, Suzanne Collins, Christina Rossetti, and Eugène Marin Labiche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1613, Khushal Khattak ranks 12Before him are John George II, Elector of Saxony, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Mattia Preti, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Jean François Paul de Gondi, and Luisa de Guzmán. After him are William Frederick, Prince of Nassau-Dietz, Gaspard Dughet, Gu Yanwu, Charles de Saint-Évremond, Isaac de Benserade, and Jacques d'Arthois. Among people deceased in 1689, Khushal Khattak ranks 13Before him are Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, Thomas Sydenham, Aphra Behn, Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma, Pjetër Bogdani, and Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. After him are Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Julius Francis, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Princess Louise of Savoy, Song Si-yeol, and Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Khushal Khattak ranks 36 out of 180Before him are Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (1964), Naropa (1016), Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309), Gulzarilal Nanda (1898), Khema (-550), and Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1178). After him are Asif Ali Zardari (1955), Dilip Kumar (1922), Amrita Pritam (1919), Taxiles (-400), Milkha Singh (1935), and Yahya Khan (1914).

Among WRITERS In Pakistan

Among writers born in Pakistan, Khushal Khattak ranks 3Before him are Muhammad Iqbal (1877) and Vasubandhu (400). After him are Amrita Pritam (1919), Krishna Sobti (1925), Rahman Baba (1632), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Tariq Ali (1943), Khushwant Singh (1915), Mulk Raj Anand (1905), Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi (1941), and Parveen Shakir (1952).