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    Ghani Khan

    Salaam and I hope all is well!

    Curiosity, boredom (and the fact that I wasted the first month of my summer holidays on doing nothing useful) lead me to stumble on this certain Ghani Khan and all I got to say is...brilliant!

    However, it seems not much of his poems (or poems which have been sung) have been translated into English or Farsi? or even into Urdo/Hindi?

    I found a few on youtube videos with English translations (YouTube - pashto takkar song.yawa wraz yau sahra ki wth english translation[/SIZE][/URL]) but am struggling with google to find a proper website of his diwan with english translations?

    There also appears to be no book of his diwan translated into English on Amazon?


    Am i fighting a lost cause here? Surely his work is too good not to have been translated?
    Tags: ghani, khan
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    Any help will be greatly appreciated. I don't mind if it's in English or Urdo/Hindi or Farsi.

    Thanks.

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      Khidr,
      Take a look at our literature section. It's full of his poems, most are translated into English.
      Even Adobe Photoshop can't change me.

      A line[Durrand line] of hatred that raised a wall between the two brothers -Hamid Karzai

      For generations, the Hindus of India prayed for deliverance from "the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger and the vengeance of the Afghan."


      The men of Kábul and Khilj also went home; and whenever they were questioned about the Musulmáns of the Kohistán (the mountains), and how matters stood there, they said, "Don't call it Kohistán, but Afghánistán; for there is nothing there but Afgháns and disturbances." Thus it is clear that for this reason the people of the country call their home in their own language Afghánistán, and themselves Afgháns. The people of India call them Patán; but the reason for this is not known. But it occurs to me, that when, under the rule of Muhammadan sovereigns, Musulmáns first came to the city of Patná, and dwelt there, the people of India (for that reason) called them Patáns—but God knows!

      -Ferishta, 1560–1620

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