Early Life and Lineage
Ghulam Faruque Khan Khattak was born on 7 October 1899 at Midnapore and was son of Khan Mir Aslam Khan Khattak (1841-1922) a famous landlord, civil contractor and businessman. Mir Aslam Khan was Pashtun of the Akor Khel Khattak tribe and was born in House of Nawab Khan Khattak and was the son of Rasual Khan Khattak of Shaidu Khan Khel, a village in tehsil Nowshera, Distt Peshawar of British India (now in Nowshera District of Kyber-Pakthunkhwa, in Pakistan). Shaidu is now town of about 75,000 people, in the Nowshera district of the Khyber Pakhtoonkhuwa,Pakistan.Shaidu is home to the Akor Khel, ruling khel of the Khattak tribe, as well as to the Mohallah Khan Khel. The Khan Khel (Khan means the chieftain while Khel stands for a family or descendents) ...clan came here when two sons of Khushal Khan Khattak, named Shahbaz Khan Khattak and Abdul Qadir Khan Khattak came from Akora Khattak to Shaidu. The two larger groups of Khan Khel are the descendants of these two brothrs. The Akor Khel's, a clan named after Akoray, still hold a prominent position in the Khattak tribe.
The Family Tree (Shajaara) show that Ghulam Faruque Khan Khattak was direct and 9th in descent of Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1689) was a prominent Pashtun malik, poet, warrior, A charismatic personality and tribal chief of the Khattak tribe. He wrote a huge collection of Pashto poems during the Mughal Empire in the 17th century, and admonished Pashtuns to forsake their divisive tendencies and unite against the Mughal Army. Promoting Pashtun nationalism through poetry, Khushal Khan Khattak is the first Afghan mentor who presents his theories for the unity of the afghan, resistance against the foreign parts and the creation of a nation-state..In short Khushal Khan Khattak was chief of Khattak's kingdom.
He earned the distinction of being electorally undefeated in every election he contested in his political career and defeated Nawab Arbab Noor Muhammad Khan in his home town Peshawar NA.2 in 1972 election.
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