people is visible in his work. He wrote "Pashtun is not merely a race but, in fact, a state of mind; there is a Pashtun lying inside every man, who at times wakes up and overpowers him." "The Pashtuns are rain-sown wheat: they all came up on the same day; they are all the same. But the chief reason why I love a Pashtun is that he will wash his face and oil his beard and perfume his locks and put on his best pair of clothes when he goes out to fight and die." As a progressive and intellectual writer, he wrote, "I want to see my people educated and enlightened. A people with a vision and a strong sense of justice, who can carve out a future for themselves in harmony with nature." Ghani khan poetry څوک دې ماته وُوائي څه رنګې شیدا شي څوک؟ څوک چې چاته وُخاندي ولې پۀ خندا شي څوک؟ ستوري د غره څوکې تۀ غلي شان بېګا وُوې مینې پۀ ژړا وُوې حسن پۀ خندا وُوې Tribute Abdul Ghani Khan died on 15 March 1996 and was buried in Utmanzai, Charsadda. After his death, in recognition of his outstanding achievements, the Government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province built a public library and park as a memorial to him on about of land, naming it "Ghani Derai" (the mound of Ghani). The site is a historical mound very near his home, Dar- ul-Aman, and within the confines of his ancestral village, Utmanzai, on the main highway from Razzar to Takht-i-Bhai. See also Abdul Ali Khan Khan Abdul Bahram Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Abdul Wali Khan Family of Bahram Khan Utmanzai (Sarbani tribe) References Sources Mohammad Arif Khattak: Ghani Khan – A Poet of Social Reality, External links Ghani Khan – interviews, images, and poems Harappa – Audio and video interviews Ghani Khan – Poetry Life & Works of Ghani Khan Interview of Author of The Pilgrim of Beauty – an English translation of Ghani Khan's 141 poems, by Deewa radio, Voice of America 1910s births 1996 deaths Pashtun people Pashtun nationalists Pashto-language poets Pakistani poets Recipients of Sitara-i-Imtiaz Ghani People of British India 20th-century poets