Badshah Khan(BACHA KHAN)

In the Mohamadzai clan of the village of Utmanzai in Peshawar district there lived a kind and humble well-to-do landowner Baharam Khan. Abdul Ghaffar or Badshah Khan as he came to be known in later years was his fourth child. When Abdul Ghaffar was five or six years old, he was admitted to a mosque to take lessons from a Mullah. In due course the young lad had finished reading the Holy Koran. He was, then, sent to the Municipal Board High School and later to Edwardes Memorial Mission High School at Peshawar, where the Rev. E F E Wigram was his headmaster. He was a person who greatly impressed Abdul Ghaffar and instilled in him the...

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Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan

Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (1882 - May 1958) popularly known as Dr Khan Sahib was a pioneer in the Indian Independence Movement and a Pakistani politician. He belongs to Charsadda. Early life He was born in the village of Utmanzai, near Charsadda in the North-West Frontier Province. His father, Bahram Khan was a well known Khan in the Hashtnagar area. Khan Sahib was eight years older than his brother, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Badshah Khan). After matriculating from the Edwardes Mission High School in Peshawar, Khan Sahib studied at Grant Medical College, Bombay (present day Mumbai). Contribution to the Indian Independence...

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Ali Khan

Ali Khan was the youngest son of Bacha Khan. He had dedicated his life to education. He served as principal of various prestigious institutions in Pakistan. These institutions include Islamia College in Peshawar, Peshawar University and Fazel Haq College in Mardan.PHOTO WILL UPDATED S...

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Khan Abdul Bahram Khan

Khan Abdul Bahram Khan (Urdu: خان عبدل بهرام خان ) was founder of major political family of Pakistan. Khan Abdul Bahram Khan's sons Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan‎ and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan‎ were political leaders in Pakistan Khan Abdul Bahram Khan was a land owner, farmer, and the chief of Pashtun tribe Mohammedzai in Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, Pakist...

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Khan Abdul Ghani Khan

Khan Abdul Ghani Khan was one of the finest Pushto poets this century. He was also the eldest son of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1989), the Red Shirt leader known affectionately as Badshah Khan and the Frontier Gandhi. He led the Pathans in what is today Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) in the struggle against British colonialism from the 1920's until 1947. The Khudai Khitmatgars, or Servants of God as they were known, were one of the most surprising political movements under the Raj. They showed that the principles of non-violence could appear in one of the more violent societies of the time. Ghaffar Khan became close...

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Khan Wali Khan

Khan Abdul Wali Khan Pashto:(خان عبدالولي خان) (b. January 11, 1917 – d. January 26, 2006) was a Pashtun freedom fighter against the British Raj, a senior politician in Pakistan and a writer. His early years were marked by his involvement in his fathers non-violent resistance movement, the "red shirts" against the British Raj. Narrowly escaping an attempt on his life he was later sent to school at Dera Dhun. In his late teens he became active in the Indian National Congress. After the formation of Pakistan, Khan became a controversial figure in Pakistani politics, he was referred to as both a hero and traitor during his political career...

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Nasim Wali Khan

Nasim Wali Khan (Urdu: نسيم ولی خان ) is a politician in Pakistan. Nasim Wali Khan is a major leader of Awami National Party. Nasim Wali Khan is the former provincial president and parliamentary leader of the Awami National Party in Provincial Assembly of the North-West Frontier Province[1]. Nasim Wali Khan married Khan Abdul Wali Khan in 1954 and she is the mother of Sangeen Wali Kh...

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Asfandyar Wali Khan

Asfandyar Wali Khan (Urdu: اسفند یار ولی خان ) (b. 19 February 1949)is the President of the Awami National Party in Pakistan. A Pakhtun nationalist he is an opponent of the Taliban and proponent of provincial rights in Pakistan. His father, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, was the party’s first President. He is the grandson of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, better known as "Badshah Khan ["King of Khans". Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was the founder of the non-violent Pashtun political movement, Khudai Khidmatgar ("Servants of God") in undivided India and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi. Asfandyars uncle Dr. Khan Sahib was the Chief Minister of the Northwest Frontier...

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SANGEEN WALI KHAN

Sangeen Wali Khan (سنگين ولی خان ) (born June 7th, 1959-June 25, 2008) politician in Pakistan. Sangeen Wali Khan is son of Khan Abdul Wali Khan and Nasim Wali . Sangeen Wali Khan step-brother of Asfandyar Wali Khan, leader of Awami National Party he left a son named LAVANGEEN WALI KHAN...

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