Ghani khan baba | Palwashay | 18th-April-2021 | Mashriq TV

Ghani Khan Baba (Khan Abdul Ghani Khan) was a Pashtun philosopher, poet, artist, writer and politician. He was a son of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a prominent British Raj-era Indian independence activist. Throughout his life as a poet in both British India and Pakistan, Ghani Khan was known by the titles Lewanay Pālsapay (لېونی فلسفی‎, 'Mad Philosopher') and Da ilam Samander (د علم سمندر‎, 'Ocean of Knowledge')

Ghani Khan was born in Hashtnagar, in the Frontier Tribal Areas of British India—roughly located in the modern-day village of Utmanzai in Charsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He was a son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a prominent Indian independence activist, and was the elder brother of Abdul Wali Khan. Khan's wife, Roshan, was from a Parsi family and was the daughter of Nawab Rustam Jang.[who?] He went to study at the art academy at Rabindranath Tagore's University in Shantiniketan, where he developed a liking for painting and sculpture.[1] He visited England and studied sugar technology in the United States, after which he returned to British India and started working at the Takht Bhai Sugar Mills[where?] in 1933.[citation needed] Largely owing to his father's influence, Khan was also involved in politics, supporting the cause of the Pashtuns of British India. Due to his activism, Khan was arrested by the Government of Pakistan in 1948—although he had given up politics by then—and remained in prison till 1954, in various jails all over the country. It was during these years that he wrote his poem collection, Da Panjray Chaghaar, which he considered to be the best work of his life.[citation needed] His contribution to literature (often unpublished) was ignored by the Pakistani government for much of his life; although near the end of his life, his works did receive much praise and as well as an award—for his contributions to Pashto literature and painting, the then-President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, conferred on him the Sitara-i-Imtiaz on 23 March 1980

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