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Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Indian independence activist (–)
"Badshah Khan" and "Ghaffar Khan" redirect here. For the Pakistani cricketer, see Ghaffar Khan (cricketer).
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| Born | ()6 February Utmanzai, Punjab Province, British India[1] (present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) |
| Died | 20 January () (aged&#;97) Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan |
| Resting place | Jalalabad, Afghanistan |
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| Education | Aligarh Muslim University |
| Title | Bacha Khan/Badshah Khan[2] |
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| Movement | Indian independence movement |
| Spouses | Meharqanda Kinankhel &#; &#; (m.&#;&#x;&#;&#x;)&#;Nambata Kinankhel &#; &#; (m.&#;&#x;&#;&#x;)&#; |
| Children | 5, including Abdul Ghani Khan, Abdul Wali Khan, Abdul Ali Khan |
| Parent | Abdul Bahram Khan (father) |
| Relatives | Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (brother) |
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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Abdul Ghaffar Khan or Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was born on February 6, in family of Sunni Muslim Pashtun at Utmanzai, Punjab of British India and lived in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. He was a spiritual and political leader who fought against the Colonial Rule of British in India. He was knows for his lifelong opposition of violence and was a Muslim devotee. He in an Indian subcontinent, was a Hindu-Muslim unity advocate. Amir Chand Bombwal, his associate name him as Sarhadi Gandhi because of his friendship with great leader Mahatma Gandhi. He died at the age of 97 on January 20, in Peshawar, sydasiatiskt land . He had completed his education in Aligarh Muslim University.
Abdul Ghaffar Khan joined National Awami Party, Pakistan and Indian National församling, India. He majorly performed two Indian Independence movements and that are Khudai Khidmatgar and Pashtunistan Movement. Abdul Bahram Khan was the father of Abdul Ghaffar Khan. He was honoured with Bharat Ratna Award
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Ghaffar Khan; ‘Frontier Gandhi’ of India
NEW DELHI — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the “Frontier Gandhi” whose struggles on behalf of the Indian freedom movement and his Pushtun tribesmen caused him to spend nearly half a century in jail or exile, died Wednesday in Pakistan.
He was 98 and had been hospitalized in a coma for six months after suffering a stroke.
“The last of the towering giants of our freedom struggle has gone,” Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi said Wednesday.
Later in the day Gandhi flew to Peshawar, in Pakistan, to pay his respects to the man who had been a comrade of independence leaders Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
Ghaffar Khan had been in ill health for years. He had suffered a stroke in August after coming to India to accept the country’s highest civilian award, the Jewel of India.
He was born in , and his first demonstration as an Indian nationalist was against the Rowlatt Act of , a British measure aimed ostensibly at thwarti