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Jawaharlal Nehru Award (1967) Bharat Ratna (1987) Abdul Ghaffār Khān ( Pashto: عبدالغفار خان; 6 February 1890 – 20 January 1988), also known as Bacha Khan ( باچا خان, ' King of Chiefs ') or Badshah Khan ( بادشاه خان) was a Pakistani Pashtun independence activist, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance ...
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also known as Bacha Khan, was a Pashtun independence activist who campaigned to end the rule of the British Raj in India. He was nicknamed as Frontier Gandhi. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan worked towards the formation of a united, independent, secular India.
Abdul Ghaffar Khan (born 1890, Utmanzai, India—died Jan. 20, 1988, Peshawar, Pak.) was the foremost 20th-century leader of the Pashtuns (Pakhtuns, or Pathans; a Muslim ethnic group of Pakistan and Afghanistan), who became a follower of Mahatma Gandhi and was called the “Frontier Gandhi.”
Jan 20, 2023 · Buried under the historical violence of Pakistan’s tribal belt is a sliver of peace—and it is because of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a lifelong pacifist who mobilised Pathans against British colonialists in India. Popularly known as ‘Frontier Gandhi’, Badshah Khan, Bacha Khan and Fakhr-e-Afghan, his indomitable political spirit has found a ...
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a Pashtun independence activist and a spiritual leader nicknamed as “Frontier Gandhi” due to his political activities and close association with the Indian leader, Mahatma Gandhi. He was a lifelong pacifist who advocated non-violent opposition and founded the Khudai Khidmatgar ("Servants of God") in order to ...
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, famously known as Bādshāh Khān, and Bāchā Khān, was a legendary Pashtun freedom fighter and pacifist whose greatness transcended all tribal and communal divisions.
Jul 20, 2020 · Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, also known as “Fakhr-e-Afghan” (pride of the Pashtuns), was born in 1890 into a Pashtun family in the Peshawar Valley of British India. As a child, Khan attended a British missionary school and excelled in his studies.
