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		Bacha Khan (or Badsha Khan) was born in the land of Afghans/Pukhtuns/Pushtuns/Pathans.
		Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was born in 1890 in Charsadda.
		Ghaffar Khan was a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and his nonviolent principles and saw support for the Congress as a way of pressing his grievances against the British frontier regime.
	www.bachakhan.8k.com (798 words)

	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
		Born in Hashtnagar in the village of Utmanzai in the house of Khan Behram Khan in 1890.
		Abdul Ghaffar Khan was the fourth child of a tall blue eyed woman and a sturdy, blue blooded old Khan of medium stature.His father, Behram Khan, a rich landlord was highly respected khan of his village.
		Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was fortunate inhaving a brave and large hearted fatherand a pious and loving mother who did not need the cries of their follower.
	www.afghanan.net /biographies/bachakhan.htm (4915 words)

	Gandhi's Associates: Badshah Khan
		Abdul Ghaffar or Badshah Khan as he came to be known in later years was his fourth child.
		Ghaffar Khan's 12 year old son Abdul Ali and his 14 year old daughter Mehartaj stayed with their loving father and in absence of their father stayed under the loving care of Mahatma Gandhi, Jamnalalal Bajaj and Mirabehn.
		Ghaffar Khan in a telegram to Indira Gandhi said: 'Deeply grieved to learn of the passing away of one of the greatest sons of the soil, a noble freedom fighter, who put into practice Gandhi's ideals of love and peace on, earth.
	www.mkgandhi.org /associates/Badshah.htm (2858 words)

	The Danish Peace Academy: Terp, Holger: Nonviolence in Islam : The case of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
		Abdul Ghaffar Khan was born and was functioning in the northwestern border area between India and Afghanistan in what is now Pakistan.
		Khan founds the reform movement Anjumen-e Islah ul-Afaghena in 1921, the farmers' organisation Anjuman-e Zamidaran in 1927 and the youth movement Pustun Jirhah in 1927.
		Abdul Ghaffar Khan is jailed several times on account of non-violence and protests against the violent oppression administered by the British.
	www.fredsakademiet.dk /library/khan.htm (1441 words)

	Ghani Khan Baba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ghani Khan, a son of the legendary prophet of peace and non-violence, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan holds a high place in pashtu literature because of his humorous and satirical verses.
		Ghani Khan was neither an iconoclast nor iconolater and "he sees himself neither as a painter, a sculptor, nor as a poet but perhaps only as a plagiarist who very humbly glorifies", in his words, the work of another artist, the real creator, who he calls Al-Jameel (The beautiful) and Al-Musavvir (The Artist).
		Ghani Khan though born in an era of the British Imperialism, was quite familiar with the cultural heritage and social values of his own people-the Pukhtoons and this is apparent in all his works.
	www.pakhtun.com /ghaniKhan1.htm (3402 words)

	Bacha Khan in Afghanistan: by Dr. Sherzaman Taizi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Abdul Ghaffar was born into an aristocratic family of Utmanzai, Hasht-nagar, in 1890, according to school records.
		Abdul Ghaffar Khan was one of this rare breed of leaders.
		It was later explained by Khan Abdul Wali Khan in a meeting with the Ambassador of Pakistan at his residence in Kabul that the Afghan government would not liked to have seen the National Awami Party win the elections in Pukhtunkhwa, because she would then have no point to continue her propaganda for Pukhtunistan.
	www.khyberwatch.com /Bachakhanafgh.htm (4337 words)

	Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His brother, Dr. Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (known as Dr. Khan Sahib), led the political wing of the movement, and was the Chief Minister of the province (from the late 1920s until 1947 when his government was dismissed by Mohammad Ali Jinnah of the Muslim League).
		Ghaffar Khan died in Peshawar under house arrest in 1988 and was buried in Jalalabad according to his wishes.
		Another son Khan Wali Khan is the founder and leader of the Awami National Party and was the Leader of the Opposition in the Pakistan National Assembly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khan_Abdul_Ghaffar_Khan (2228 words)

	Gandhi's Associates: Khan Abdul Gafar Khan
		Strongly inspired by Gandhi's strategy of nonviolence, Ghaffar Khan, or Badshah Khan as he was popularly known, amassed the world's first major nonviolent army in his region.
		Khan opened schools in the province, brought women into the mainstream of society, and encouraged his nonviolent soldiers to vow to do at least two hours of social work a day.
		Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan 's amazing success story will go down in the annals of nonviolent resistance not merely for its popularity but also for its innately simple and spiritual outlook.
	www.mkgandhi.org /associates/gafarkhan.htm (392 words)

	Development Revealed - Asian Reflection
		Abdul Ghaffar Khan was one of this rare breed of leaders (Taizi 2002).
		Khan encouraged the KKs to make connections they were unaware of between their inner life -- personal qualities like patience, forgiveness, compassion, humility and love -- and the consequences their actions and beliefs had on their society.
		Khan was unimpressed by excessive materialism -- he believed Muslims lost their 'honour, dignity and sank into ignominy' when they 'began to love wealth and possessions' (Khan 1969:31) -- but it is wrong to assume that he neglected traditional development per se.
	www.asianreflection.com /developmentrevealed.shtml (4250 words)

	..:: Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan, A Man to Match His Mountains :: Fair Trade and Socially Conscious Gifts ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988), a Pathan (or Pushtun) of Afghanistan, a devout Muslim, raised the first nonviolent army in history to free his people from British imperial rule.
		Khan’s profound belief in the truth and effectiveness of nonviolence came from the depths of personal experience of his Muslim faith.
		Khan opened schools, brought the women out of the home into roles in society, and included a vow taken by his nonviolent soldiers to do at least two hours a day of social work.
	store.gxonlinestore.org /badshah.html (499 words)

	DW-WORLD.DE - Wali Khan, Controversial Figure in Pakistani Politics, Dies
		Khan was the son of Pakhtoon movement leader Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, commonly known as Frontier Gandhi for his commitment to Indian leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s non-violent struggle for independence.
		Wali Khan was born on January 11, 1917 in Utmanzai town of Charsadda district.
		Wali Khan was to carry this ‘mark of treason’ for many years to follow, until sections of the press supporting the government of the day decided to exonerate him...
	www2.dw-world.de /southasia/pakistan/1.169425.1.html (1110 words)

	Remembering a non-violent soldier
		Faith is Battle, asserts, "The life of Abdul Ghaffar Khan is an inspiring saga of a triumph of spirit which knows nothing of force, whose conquests are won by the power of invincible gentleness." Bacha Khan was against violence in any form and for any case.
		Ghaffar Khan like Shelley has come from heaven to the earth, while Mahatma Gandhi like Keats is going from earth to be heaven.
		It was Bacha Khan who practically proved by raising the professional cadres (Qasabgaran) to the status of general and commanders of the Khudai-Khidmatgars over Khans and Chiefs in the traditional Pakhtun society.
	www.geocities.com /khyber007/bachakhan.html (978 words)

	Fight well Fought (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Khan Abdul Wali Khan made a commitment to the goal of national freedom and his entire life was a struggle to attain this goal.
		han Abdul Wali Khan, who died on 27 January 2006 at the age of 89, was the best known freedom-fighter in Pakistan who was obliged to continue fighting for his people's rights for more than half a century even after their independence had been proclaimed.
		For this 'crime,' Wali Khan had to return to prison again and again, and his fellow party workers had to face not only a ban on their organisation more than once, but also an aerial attack on their assembly that left hundreds dead.
	www.newsline.com.pk /NewsFeb2006/memoryfeb2006.htm (740 words)

	HIMAL SOUTHASIAN \| January - February 2006
		Badshah Khan was born in 1890 in Utmanzai, in Charsadda District, near Peshawar.
		Badshah Khan was always the inspirational head of this movement, and after him, these parties were led first by his son, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, and today by his grandson, Asfandyar Wali Khan.
		The democratic and nationalist character of the movement meant that it was unable to coexist with the military, and the Punjab-led Pakistani establishment.
	www.himalmag.com /2006/january/cover_story_4.html (1348 words)

	Ghaffar Khan
		Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan began work in 1912, when he was 22 years old.
		Ghaffar Khan met Gandhi and entered modren politics in 1919 during agitation over the Rowlatt Acts, which allowed the internment of political dissidents without trial.
		By the late 1930s Ghaffar Khan had become a member of Gandhi's inner circle of advisers, and the Khudai Khitmatgar actively aided the Congress Party cause up to the partition of India in 1947.
	www.bachakhan.8k.com /about.html (537 words)

	A non-violent giant
		Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was born in 1890 and died in 1988.
		The author's melancholy conclusion is that the history of Badshah Khan and his Khudai Khidmedkers, "stands as one of history's most extraordinary and neglected moments".
		Khan Sahib was twice Premier of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
	www.frontlineonnet.com /fl1821/18211090.htm (725 words)

	Ghani Khan
		Ghani Khan was born in Hashtnagar in 1914.
		He was the son of the Red-Shirt Leader, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, aka Bacha Khan and The Frontier Gandhi.
		The Pathans - A Sketch by Ghani Khan
	ghani.info (331 words)

	NPR : Ghaffar Khan : Alphonse Vinh
		Born near the Khyber Pass to a prosperous landowning family, Ghaffar Khan was more than six feet tall and powerfully built.
		Ghaffar Khan believed the mortal weakness of his fellow tribesmen was an obsession with honor and revenge killings.
		Ghaffar Khan endured beatings and arrests and continued to lead his Red Shirts on a path of nonviolence until the end of the British Raj.
	www.npr.org /programs/musings/2003/jan/khan.html (704 words)

	Gandhi Khan - Power of Nonviolence: Khan's Triumph of Will: Introduction
		Very few know of Khan in his native region of today's Pakistan or Afghanistan; He's relatively better known in India as "Frontier Gandhi" because of his close association with Gandhi in India's nonviolent struggle for independence.
		Amnesty International drew attention by recognizing Khan as the "Prisoner of the Year" in 1962; Khan was given the "Jewel of India" award for his commitment to nonviolence.
		Khan's life and works are based on the universal values of love, faith, and service to humanity and his legacy is beyond regional and Islamic boundaries.
	www.in-the-light.org /gandhikhan/khans_triumph_of_will.html (1023 words)

	EurasiaNet Culture - Biography of Abdul Ghaffar Khan Provides Lessons for Current Readers
		They censored his schools and imprisoned Khan; in the end, he was to spend one third of his long life in prison.
		Over the course of his non-violent campaign, Khan forged a close relationship with Mahatma Ghandi, even becoming known among locals as 'the Frontier Ghandi.' Khan spread Ghandi's civil disobedience movement to the Afghan frontier region, urging his people to return British medals, withdraw from British universities, and stop practicing in British courts.
		Abdul Ghaffar Khan died on January 20 1988, at the age of 98.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/culture/articles/eav051002.shtml (1023 words)

	Health Library.com -- Reading Room: The Banyan Tree - Volume II : Bringing Change
		Among these Pathans was Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan "the Frontier Gandhi" who organized a powerful movement of the Khudai Khidmatgars or True Servants of God, which was pledged to complete nonviolence and whose members became some of the bravest and most daring and reliable nonviolent resisters ofd India’s struggle for independence.
		Under the leadership of the towering "Red Gandhi", Ghaffar Khan, the satyagrahis took over he city of Kabul, induced crack British units to lay down their arms and proved to the world that martial men, in fact, may make the best satyagrahis.
		Badshah Khan, as he as affectionately called among his Pathan people, was a devout and loyal Muslim who never missed a namaz or a fast; but Islam for him meant amal, yakeen, muhabhat (work, faith, love), and he deplored the communal tension which prevailed in so many places.
	healthlibrary.com /reading/banyan2/2frontier.html (3200 words)

	Bacha Khan services eulogised (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Khalid Khan, the prominent writer and playwright was cheif guest on the occasion while Shaheen Buneri, the anchor person and young producer of AVT Khyber was invited as guest of honour to the ceremony.
		Shaheen Buneri said that Bacha Khan was a social reformer who devouted his life for the social, educational, political and economic emancipation of Pakhtuns.
		Khalid Khan said that Pashtuns needed good educational institutions for their revival and respect in the comity of nations." Bacha khan is the only leader who had a vision of stable peace.
	www.khyberwatch.com /bachadoha.htm (307 words)

	Wali Khan: A life of struggle -DAWN - National; January 27, 2006
		Born on January 11, 1917, in Utmanzai, district Charsadda near Peshawar, Khan Abdul Wali Khan received his early education at the Islamia High School, which formed part of a chain of schools his father Bacha Khan, the founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar Tehrik (Servants of God Movement), had launched to spread education among the Pukhtoons.
		In February 1949, Wali Khan was shifted from Haripur jail to Mach jail in Balochistan and in May 1951 to Quetta jail and in 1952 to Dera Ismail Khan jail.
		Wali Khan was in the forefront with Bacha Khan in the struggle for abolition of One Unit, established in 1954, and was among the founding members of the National Awami Party (NAP) which came into being in 1956.
	www.dawn.com /2006/01/27/nat7.htm (1119 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Aid to Quake Victims: Pakistan increases Compensation by 4-Times
		Khan Abdul Wali Khan, who started his politics from Khudai Khidmatgar Party, later led the Awami National Party.
		His father late Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was also a politician of high status in South Asia.
		Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was popularly known as 'Bacha Khan' among his party workers and admirers.
	pakistantimes.net /break260106.htm (1928 words)

	Will the real Islam please stand up!
		Khan drew his first recruits from the young men who had graduated from his schools.
		Khan set up a network of committees called jirgahs, named and modeled after the traditional tribal councils that had maintained Pathan law for centuries.
		He was revered by Gandhi, who viewed Khan and his Pathan followers as an illustration of the courage it takes to live a nonviolent life.
	www.peacehost.net /PacifistNation/khan.htm (1569 words)

	TIME.com: The Frontier Gandhi -- Jan. 18, 1954 -- Page 1
		and scion of Moslem notables in the North-West Frontier Province, Ghaffar Khan tramped the roads, spreading the gospel of satyagraha (passive resistance).
		Ghaffar Khan then set up a clamor for a separate Pathan nation, to be called Pathanistan or Pukhtoonistan.
		Ghaffar Khan proved to be as independent and plain-speaking as ever.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,819405,00.html (596 words)

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