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  1. Abdul Ghaffar Khan - Wikipedia. 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 movement against British colonial rule in India. [3]

  2. 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.”

  3. 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.

  4. Jan 20, 2023 · Abdul Ghaffar Khan was no Gandhihe was the powerhouse Pathan who mobilised Indian Muslims. Popularly known as Frontier Gandhi, Badshah Khan, Bacha Khan and Fakhr-e-Afghan, his indomitable political spirit has found a place in all of his names. Shania Mathew. 20 January, 2023 10:26 am IST.

  5. Jun 22, 2018 · Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a Pashtun freedom activist who fought against the British occupation of India. Popularly known as ‘Bacha Khan’, he was also a political leader of importance and a spiritual leader known for his philosophy of non-violence and pacifism.

  6. Red Shirt movement, in support of the Indian National Congress, an action started by Abdul Ghaffar Khan of the North-West Frontier Province of India in 1930. Ghaffar Khan was a Pashtun who greatly admired Mahatma Gandhi and his nonviolent principles and saw support for the Congress as a way of.

  7. Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Pashto/Urdu: فخر افغان خان عبد الغفار خان/خان عبدالغفار خان) (c. 1890 – January 20, 1988) was a Pashtun Indian political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India.

  8. Affectionately known as ‘Bacha’ Khan or ‘Badshah’ Khan amongst his people, Khan Abdul Ghaffar’s life was dedicated to the social reform of the Pukhtuns, who traditionally adhere to a strict...

  9. May 28, 2010 · Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was named “Amnesty International Prisoner of the Yearin 1962. He was again arrested many times between 1972 to 1980 during the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. He died in Peshawar in 1988 while he was under house arrest.

  10. Jan 20, 2018 · Ghaffar Khan embraced the Gandhian philosophy of non-violence because it resonated with Islam, thereby negating the idea that the religion of Muslims was inherently violent.

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