Qazi Abdul Haleem Asar Afghani as a Prose Writer

Abstract

The soil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has the potential and credibility to give birth to prominent Pashto intellectuals, writers and scholars who are rightly called the ever shining stars of Pashto Language and Literature. This journey has taken place from Bayazid Rokhan best known as Pir Rokhan when he wrote the first pashto book (Khair-ul-Bayan) in the sixteen century followed by Khushal Khan Khattak, Rehman Baba, Hameed Baba, Kazim Khan Sheda and many more. In the 20^th century can rightly be called the century wherein a number of Pashto intellectuals, prose and phrase writers had given Pashto language and literature new horizons. One of them is Qazi Abdul Haleem Asar Afghani who was not only a good phrase writer, but at the same time was a good Critic Analysts and Prose writer. Beside this, he remained an active Politician, Calligrapher, Historian and an excellent Pashto literary personality. Qazi Abdul Haleem Asar Afghani was a real supporter of Pashtoons. His name and contributions in the field of Pashto Language, Literature and especially in Prose writing will always be remembered with honor and great respect. In this article, we chose only his contribution in the field of Prose writing, so that the students and researcher may also be familiar with the same.