Pathanay Khan or Pathane Khan was a legendary Saraiki folk singer from Pakistan. He mostly sang Kafis or Ghazals, usually drawing on the Sufi poetry of Khwaja Ghulam Farid and Shah Hussain. He was born in 1926 in the village Basti Tambu Wali, situated in the heart of the Thal Desert, several miles from Kot Addu, (Punjab).

Khwaja Ghulam Farid was a 19th-century Punjabi sufi poet. He belonged to the Chishti Order and was a mystic from Bahawalpur, Punjab during the British Raj. He was originally from Thatta, Sindh. A contemporary of Mast Tawakali and Mian Muhammad Bakhsh, he penned resistance through poetry against the British colonial rule.