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- Ghaffar Khan, who had opposed the partition, chose to live in Pakistan, where he continued to fight for the rights of the Pashtun minority and for an autonomous Pushtunistan (also called Pakhtunistan or Pathanistan; an independent state in the border areas of West Pakistan).
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Abdul Ghaffar Khan was born on 6 February 1890 into a prosperous Sunni Muslim Muhammadzai Pashtun family from Utmanzai, Hashtnagar; they lived by the Jindee-a, a branch of the Swat River, in what was then British India 's Punjab province. [1][9][20] His father, Abdul Bahram Khan, was a land owner in Hashtnagar.
Ghaffar Khan, who had opposed the partition, chose to live in Pakistan, where he continued to fight for the rights of the Pashtun minority and for an autonomous Pushtunistan (also called Pakhtunistan or Pathanistan; an independent state in the border areas of West Pakistan).
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Jul 31, 2023 · Abdul Ghaffar Khan pledged his allegiance to Pakistan on February 23rd, 1948, during the first session of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly. He promised to fully support the new government and attempted to reconcile with his political adversary, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, despite their past disagreements.
Jan 20, 2023 · After 17 years of isolation and imprisonment in Pakistan, Khan went on to live in Kabul in the mid-1970s. He spent his last years in the Afghan city of Jalalabad, visiting India occasionally for medical treatment, mainly for arthritis.
Jailed for twelve years by the British and for fifteen years by Pakistani authorities, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, born in 1890 in Utmanzai in the North-West Frontier province (NWFP), remains a symbol of the values of nonviolence and Pakhtun dignity.
Apr 8, 2024 · During the first session of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly, Abdul Ghaffar Khan took his oath of allegiance to Pakistan. Khan promised to make attempts to support the new government and reconcile issues with Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
Probable motive: to give a more convincing ring to Pakistan’s protests against India’s jailing of the deposed Sheik Abdullah of Kashmir. The Indians, who had long agitated for Ghaffar Khan’s...
