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Jan 20, 2016 · Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, better known as Bacha Khan, advocated for the rights of his fellow Pashtuns in the British Raj in the early 20th century. Focusing on frontier regions of what is today northwest Pakistan, he eschewed violence and advocated peaceful means of protest against British rule.
Jan 21, 2022 · 20th January marks the death anniversary of Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Abdul Ghaffar Khan About: He was also called the Frontier Gandhi. Born on 6th February 1890 in Utmanzai, Frontier Tribal Areas of Punjab Province. He was named Badshah Khan at twenty-six by the members of his tribe when his father died.
Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Early Years Abdul Ghaffar Khan was born in 1890 at Utmanzai (Charsadda) district Peshawar. His father Bahram Khan was a well-to-do landowner of Mohammadzai clan. According to the then popular tradition, Ghaffar Khan was sent to the local mosque to take early lessons in the Holy Quran. The
Nonviolent Soldier of Islam is a biography of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988), an ally of Gandhi's in the Indian independence movement.Originally written by Eknath Easwaran in English, foreign editions have also been published in Arabic and several other languages.
Jan 20, 2018 · On the 30th death anniversary of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan today, it is apt to remember him as the man who challenged the subcontinent’s pet stereotypes.
In 1929, the Khudai Khidmatgars (“Servants of God”) movement, led by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, nonviolently mobilized to oppose the British in India’s Northwest Frontier Province. Ghaffar Khan and the Khudai Khidmatgar movement inspired thousands of Pashtuns (also called Pathans), who were known as fierce warriors, and others to lay down their arms and use civil resistance to challenge British rule.
Apr 21, 2015 · Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a mid-twentieth-century Pashtun of the Northwest Frontier Region known as the "Frontier Gandhi" or the "Islamic Gandhi." His career was marked by rejection of the badal blood feud, and the belligerent Pashtun tribal code.
