Kharābat (Dari: خرابات) is a neighborhood in the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan.

Kharābat has educated many famous musicians of Afghanistan in the Indian Patiali school.

The reason why the area is called Kharabat can be traced back to the term in Persian poetry, where it originally referred to taverns.

[1] Important Afghan musicians were born there, as well as the songs of the Indian Dari poets Ustad Qasem Jo, Ustad Natu, Rahim Bakhsh, and Mohammad Omer, master of the rubab.

During the time of Ali Shir Khan, it became a centre of art and music and home to many great artists such as Father Ustad Qasem Jo and [who?]