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But he didn’t accept and instead looked forward to completing University studies in London.
They had 2 kids including Mehar Taj and Abdul Ali Khan (ice-Chancellor of University of Peshawar) from the relationship. ‘The Majestic Man’, a short biographical film in English was made in 1990 by Abdul Kabeer Siddiqui. The two had a successful meeting in Karachi, however, another meeting planned to be held at the headquarters of the Khudayi Khidmatgar never materialised.
Tragically, Nambata also died after she fell down a flight of stairs of their Jerusalem apartment.
Khudayi Khidmatgar
Witnessing the repeatedly unsuccessful revolutionary activities for the independence of India, Bacha Khan came to the conclusion that the only sustainable way of achieving the goal of a united, secular, and independent nation was through a firm adoption of Gandhi’s principles of ‘Satyagraha’.
Most of the time in the 1960s and 1970s, he spent either in exile or jail. Bacha Khan was an importantfreedom fighter, and is a Pashtunnational hero and a key figure of Pashtun nationalism.
- Born
- 1890
Utmanzai, Charsadda - Also known as
- Abdul Wali Khan
- Fakhr-e Afghān
- Bāchā Khān
- Pāchā Khān
- Bādshāh Khān
- Frontier Gandhi
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Ethnicity
- Nationality
- Profession
- Education
- Aligarh Muslim University
- Lived in
- Died
- Jan 20, 1988
Peshawar
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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. With his initiative of aligning with Jinnah failing, ‘Bacha Khan’ founded the Pakistan Azad Party on 8 May 1948, the country’s first opposition party with a non-communal and constructive opposition intent.
The new Pakistani government, however, ever-suspicious of his motives, placed him under house arrest in 1948 till 1954 without charge.
Ghaffar Market in Karol Bagh, New Delhi is named after him.
Who was Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan?
Khān Abdul Ghaffār Khān, also known as Fakhr-e Afghān, and Bāchā Khān, Pāchā Khān or Bādshāh Khān, was an independenceactivist of Pashtun descent. He was held to be an anti-Muslim and even assaulted physically in 1946 in Peshawar as a result of which, he had to be hospitalised.
He worked as a member of the party till 1939. The couple had 3 children from the relationship including the well-noted poet, Abdul Ghani Khan, founder of Awami National Party, Abdul Wali Khan and a daughter Sardaro. Actor Dilsher Singh portrayed his character in Richard Attenborough’s 1982 epic ‘Gandhi’. He went to British-run Edward's Mission School for his schooling for 10 years.
He was taken to India, where the doctors in India declared him untreatable. According to reports, the meeting was sabotaged by Abdul Qayyum Khān, the Chief Minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa who allegedly told Jinnah that Bacha Kha’ was planning his assassination. In 1920, Abdul Ghaffar Khan got married to Nambata. Realising that partition was inevitable, on June 21, 1947, a ‘loya jirga’ (grand assembly) was held in Bannu with ‘Bacha Khan’, members of the Provincial Assembly, the Khudayi Khidmatgars, the Pashtun tribal leader Mirzali Khān, and other tribal leaders in attendance.
More than 100,000 members were recruited and the organization was able to stand as a big opposition to the British-controlled army and police.
Badshah Khan
Badshah Khan, also written Bacha Khan, full name Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988) was a Muslim follower of Gandhi and a major contributor to the freedom struggle of the 1930s.