Rahmat Shah Sail ( ps, رحمت شاه سائل - born 1950, writer) is a prominent
Pakistani poet in the
Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...
language, belongs to the
Utmankhel
Utmankhel ( ps, اتمانخېل) a Pashtun tribe present in Pakistan, with substantial numbers in Afghanistan. They lie between the Mohmands and the Ranizais of Swat, to the west and south-west of the junction of the Swat and Panjkora rivers ...
tribe.
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Early life
Rahmat Shah Sail is the son of Amin Gul and Khana Bibi belongs to the Paindakhel tribe. Sail was born in the Dargai village of Wartier in Malakand Agency
The Malakand Agency ( ps, ملاکنډ ایجنسيۍ) was one of the agencies in the North West Frontier Province of British India and later of Pakistan until 2010. It included the princely states of Chitral, Dir and Swat, and an area around ...
, Pakistan
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. At the age of five, Sail was admitted to a local primary school; however, he was compelled to leave school after the third grade
Academic life
Sail is the author of several poetry books in the Pashto language:
Published books:
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Work
Sail spent most of his life working as a tailor in Dargari Bazar. He is currently the chief editor of ''Pashtun Magazine'' published by Bacha Khan Centre.
References
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Pashto-language poets
Pashtun people
1943 births
Living people
Pakistani poets