Rahat Zakheli

Sayyid Rahatullah Rahat Zakheli (born 1884) was a Pashto poet, author and publisher in Azakhel Bala, Nowshera, in what is today Pakistan.[1]

Zakheli launched Afghan, the first Pashto weekly newspaper, in 1910. He wrote Mah Rukh, the first Pashto novel, in 1912 and "Kunda Jinai", the first Pashto short story, in 1917.[2][3][4][5][6]

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