Khatir Afridi Biography

Pashtun poet

Khatir Afridi (Pashto: خاطر آفریدی) (1929 – August 24, 1968) was a Pashto language poet from Pakistan.

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)

Mazari khatir(stupa)

He wrote songs that became popular in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He joined a poetry society where he got guidance from Hamza Shinwari and National Socialist German Workers' Partyr Shinwari. He had Tuberculosis 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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