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Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention, cultural names and ancestral names. In Pakistan a person is either referred by his or her Islamic name or from tribe name (if it is specified), respectively.
An Afghan personal name consists of a given name (Dari: نام, Pashto: نوم) and sometimes a surname at the end. Personal names are generally not divided into first and family names; a single name is recognized as a full personal name, and the addition of further components – such as additional given names, regional, or ethnic family/clan names or patronymics – is often a matter of ...
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Shayesteh or Shaista (Persian: شایسته, Pashto: شایسته) is a given name and is often given to females.. In Persian, "شایسته" means "worthy" or "admirable", [1] whereas translating it from Pashto it is derived from Shaist (Pashto: شایست), meaning “beauty”.
According to historian C.E. Bosworth, the tribal name "Ghilji" is derived from the name of the Khalaj (خلج) tribe. [5] According to historian V. Minorsky, the ancient Turkic form of the name was Qalaj (or Qalach), but the Turkic /q/ changed to /kh/ in Arabic sources (Qalaj > Khalaj). Minorsky added: "Qalaj could have a parallel form *Ghalaj."
Khushal Khan Khattak – Pashto poet, warrior, and tribal chief from the 17th century [9] Rahman Baba – Pashto poet and Sufi saint; Abaseen Yousafzai – Pashto poet known for his modernist poetry; Hafiz Alpuri – Pashto Poet; Khatir Afridi – Pashto poet and writer; Malala Yousafzai – Pashto writer, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
It includes Pashtun people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.