Shinwari was born in Landi Kotal, Khyber district, as the fifth son of Brameer Khan.[citation needed]
In 1915, he enrolled in a primary school. When the teacher asked him to write the Urdu alphabet he instead displayed his artistic abilities and drew a human figure.[citation needed]
He went to Islamia Collegiate School in the fifth grade and started writing poetry in Urdu. Once his teacher Khawaja Syed Abdul Sattar Shah advised him to write in his mother tongue Pashto.[citation needed] As he was not proficient in Urdu, he obeyed his teacher's instructions and began writing in Pashto.[citation needed]

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