In sub-continent, almost each area got some folk love stories.
In Sindh, we got Sassi Punhoo, Noori Jaam Tamachi (from lower Sindh), Moomal Rano and Umar Marvi (from Thar and Mathelo area), etc
In Punjab, we got Sohni Mehwaal, Heer Ranjha, Mirza Sahiban, Sehti Muraad, etc
In Balochistan, Haani Shah Mureed and in KPK Yusuf Khan Sher Bano.
What are the popular folk love stories of Afghanistan that formed part of folk poetry and sung by folk singers?
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Love story pe kyun deehan hai :D
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I can think of a couple off the top of my head. There's Farhad and Shirin (also referred to as Khosrow and Shirin), which is a Dari fairy tale. In Pashto, there's Adam Khan Aw Durkhanai. I shall ask my grandmother about other common ones.
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Love story pe kyun deehan hai :D
Because most of the time, we know Afghanistan as related to war and the society is generally perceived as close one. Thats why query to look at different aspect of Afghans.
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I can think of a couple off the top of my head. There's Farhad and Shirin (also referred to as Khosrow and Shirin), which is a Dari fairy tale. In Pashto, there's Adam Khan Aw Durkhanai. I shall ask my grandmother about other common ones.
Adam Khan and Durkhanai is also popular in KPK, but I always thought Shirin Farhad as Persian and not Afghan story.
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Adam Khan and Durkhanai is also popular in KPK, but I always thought Shirin Farhad as Persian and not Afghan story.
The origin is Persian, but it's quite well known among Dari/Persian speaking Afghans. I believe there are a couple of differences from the original in most Afghan versions.
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Yusuf Khan and Sher bano.
Sher Alam and Maimoona.
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Adam and Durkhanai are together in grave… 
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where is that written? didn’t find it in the link
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Yusuf Khan and Sher bano. Sher Alam and Maimoona.
Sher Alam killed Maimoona. Now this is something new in love stories.
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Muqa, you don’t know know the half of it. 
Many of our fairytales have a slightly melancholy note.
My grandmother told me about another one, Ningola and Begum Jan, and it’s equally…unusual. In short, it ends with several people getting killed in revenge for past wrongdoings and in the woman dying of heartbreak. It’s quite interesting though because it had a supernatural element to it. The guy in the story is not a human, but a shaperai (rather like the male form of pari).
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Interesting story.
I think killing of a person by his lover was new feature in Sher Alam and Maimoona, as all the famous love stories of sub-continent (mentioned in OP) lack this. In Moomal Rano (which belongs to areas which are now Karo Kari affected), Rano saw Moomal with another male (which was in fact Moomal’s sister in disguise of a man), but he didn’t kill her. Based on this behavior of Rano, cultual scholars concluded that Karo Kari is an imported custom in Sindh.
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I just thought of another one, Saiful Malook o Badri Jamala. Interestingly, this one has a supernatural element too and involves a prince falling in love with a fairy (shaperai). If I'm not mistaken this one is also common in KPK where the eponymous lake is located.
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I just thought of another one, Saiful Malook o Badri Jamala. Interestingly, this one has a supernatural element too and involves a prince falling in love with a fairy (shaperai). If I'm not mistaken this one is also common in KPK where the eponymous lake is located.
I also heard similar story regarding Jheel Saiful Malook...
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This has been sung by Punjabi’s sufi poet ‘Miyan Muhaamd Bux’ in his poetry
Mian Muhammad Bakhsh Saif-ul-Malook Part 2 Full video …
When it comes to my interest in literature, it got connection with this story of ‘Saif ul Malook’. In class 2 or 3, our teacher used to read us this story in parts in last hour of the class. This developed interest and asked my baba to buy me that book. It was not available in market and the book shop owner told him that he got Alif-Leela, but abba refused to buy me that. After 2-3 years, I was able to get copy of Alif Leela and now I know why abba was reluctant to buy the book at that time 