The aim of this magazine is to connect the communities of Hindu Kush, Himalaya, Karakorum and Pamir by providing them a common accessible platform for production and dissemination of knowledge.
Khushal Khan Khattak was neither a Turk nor a hermit
Akhundzada Arif Hasan Khan, a self-proclaimed Tajik from Shabqadar (Charsada), has made some mind warping claims in his latest article "Pashtuns and Gandhara: on Pashtun-Afghan ethnogenesis" https://wemountains.com/10/26/1434/. He has made a startling claim that 17th century Pashto poet Khushal Khan Khattak was a Turk by race and he lived a life of mendicant (faqir/darwesh). He believes that Khushal Khattak made immense contributions to Pashto language only at the behest of Mughals. In this post i will point out some serious…
