“He talked for four hours. First about democracy. He said, “Because here in Pakistan democracy did not work, we do not give the people democracy anymore”
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Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also known as Bacha Khan and Badshah Khan, was an Indian independence activist from the North-West Frontier Province, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British rule in colonial India. After the partition occurred, he became a Pakistani politician and led the Azad Party.
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politics · Indian independence activist (1890–1988) · politician · freedom fighter · also Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Fakhr-e-Afghān, Bādshāh Khān, Frontier Gandhi, Khan
Born 6 February 1890 · Died 20 January 1988 · Q312966
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2026· 3 entries
“that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat”
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The Guardian: Jailed ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan allowed brief hospital visit after uproar over health
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2008· 1 entry
A documentary, titled The Frontier Gandhi, by film-maker and writer T
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2006· 1 entry
“In 1958, Ghaffar Khan wrote that he had been killed ’by those people for whom he had forsaken his own people’.”
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1990· 1 entry
Abdul Kabeer Siddiqui of Indian National TV made a 30-minute English-language biographical documentary film on Bacha Khan, titled The Majestic Man
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1988· 5 entries
Died 1988-01-20.
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“Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle.”
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From complications of a stroke and was buried in his house at Jalalabad, Afghanistan
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“Pathans! Your house has fallen into ruin. Arise and rebuild it and remember to what race you belong.”
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Was buried at his house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded Bharat Ratna (1987).
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1984· 1 entry
Increasingly withdrawing from politics, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
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1980· 1 entry
During an interview with an Indian journalist, Haroon Siddiqui, in Jalalabad, Abdul Ghaffar Khan said
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding (1967).
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And later Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1987
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1962· 1 entry
Bacha Khan was named an "Amnesty International Prisoner of the Year"
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1958· 2 entries
To reconcile with him and offered him a ministry in the government, after the assassination of his brother, but he refused
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Until an illness in 1964 allowed for his release
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1956· 2 entries
Was again arrested for his opposition to the One Unit program, under which the government announced its plan to merge all the provinces of West Pakistan into a single unit to match the political structure of erstwhile
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Was arrested for opposing the One Unit Scheme
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1954· 1 entry
Bacha Khan split with his elder brother Khan Sahib after the latter joined the Central Cabinet of Muhammad Ali Bogra as Minister for Communications
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1947· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Advisory Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India (1947).
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1946· 3 entries
Career landmark: member of the House Committee of the Constituent Assembly of India (1946).
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Leading to his hospitalisation in Peshawar
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Career landmark: Member of the Constituent Assembly of India (1946).
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1939· 1 entry
Because of his differences with the Party's War Policy
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1931· 1 entry
The Congress offered him the presidency of the party, but he refused saying, "I am a simple soldier and Khudai Khidmatgar, and I only want to serve
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1929· 1 entry
Khan founded the Khudai Khidmatgar, an anti-colonial nonviolent resistance movement
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1926· 1 entry
Nambata died early as well from a fall down the stairs of the apartment where they were staying in Jerusalem
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1921· 2 entries
They had a daughter, Mehar Taj (25 May 1921 – 29 April 2012), and a son, Abdul Ali Khan (20 August 1922 – 19 February 1997).
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And the youth movement Pax̌tūn Jirga (پښتون جرګه, 'Pashtun Assembly') in 1927
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1920· 1 entry
Bacha Khan remarried; his new wife, Nambata, was a cousin of his first wife and the daughter of Sultan Mohammad Khan of Razzar
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1913· 3 entries
Abdul Ghani Khan, who would become a noted artist and poet
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They had a son in 1913, Abdul Ghani Khan, who would become a noted artist and poet.
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`, who would become a noted artist and poet
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1912· 1 entry
He married his first wife, Meharqanda, in 1912; she was a daughter of Yar Mohammad Khan of the Kinankhel clan of the Muhammadzai tribe of Razzar, a village adjacent to Utmanzai.
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1911· 1 entry
Joined the independence movement of the Pashtun activist Haji Sahib of Turangzai
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1910· 1 entry
Khan opened a madrasa in his hometown of Utmanzai
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1890· 1 entry
Born 1890-02-06.
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