Ghani Khan — the poet of beautiful contradictions, The Poet-Painter (1914-1996)
Khan Abdul Ghani khan (1914-1996) was the son of Khan Abdul Ghaffar khan khan, Known as Bacha khan (1890-1988) who was a political activist. Unlike his father and and his brother, Khan Abdul khan, Ghani khan was a poet, painter and sculptor par excellence. Although he is well known as a poet both nationally and internationally, very few people are aware that he was a painter and a sculptor, too. However, the great Abdul Ghani Khan defies such attempts to box him. Indeed, he was crazy but he was a lot of other things too. Ghani has the multifaceted personality of one of the greatest Pashto poets, his verses having strains of romanticism, nationalism, humanism and a scathing animosity towards the social contract theory. Ghani was the eldest child of the revered independent activist Abdul Ghaffar Khan; however, he shunned politics and became a painter, sculptor and a poet par excellence. Ghani khan was born in 1914 in Hashtnagar, Charsadda, or ancient Pushkalavati, which was the ca