Pathans! Your house has fallen into ruin. Arise and rebuild it and remember to what race you belong.
Bacha Khan
Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India
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He built a 100,000-strong nonviolent army to resist the British Raj in one of colonial India's most brutally repressed regions, then watched partition carve the map without him — a Muslim pacifist who opposed the creation of Pakistan and spent decades in its jails.
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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was born in the North-West Frontier Province on 6 February 1890. In 1929, he founded the Khudai Khidmatgar, a nonviolent resistance movement that drew such fierce colonial crackdown it became one of the most repressed forces in the entire independence struggle. A devout Muslim who championed Hindu–Muslim unity and shared Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy so closely he earned the nickname "the Frontier Gandhi," Khan fought against partition — demanding an independent Pashtunistan when the British refused, then boycotting the 1947 referendum that folded his province into Pakist…
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Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle.
In 1958, Ghaffar Khan wrote that he had been killed ’by those people for whom he had forsaken his own people’.
[There is] ‘an open conspiracy with the Muslim League to bathe the province in blood’...
My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood.
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