Tahir Afridi (4 January 1939 – 6 June 2021) was a Pakistani prominent progressive and nationalist fiction writer of Pashto and Urdu language.
[3] He wrote and published his first novel ("Sta Na Pe Gham Ke Kama Naam") in 1961.
He wrote a novel in Urdu, "Teri Aankhein Khoob Soorat Hai" which has been translated into Pashto by our friend poet, writer and journalist Barak Mian Khel under the name of "Sheen Starge".
He also compiled a book on the lines of Amir Hamza Khan Shinwari, a famous poet of Pashto literature.
In addition, a book on various subjects by Tahir Afridi has recently been published by the Pashto Academy Quetta under the title "Adabi Pandey" (literary worksheet).