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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan était un dirigeant politique et spirituel pachtoune, connu pour son opposition non violente à la domination britannique à la fin du règne de l'empire sur le sous-continent . C'est un des grands représentants de la non-violence islamique.

Fondateur en 1929 des Khudai Khidmatgar , un mouvement pachtoune « religieux, nationaliste et progressiste » qui a rassemblé jusqu'à 100.0000 "satyagrahis" . Il s'allia à Gandhi, dont il fut l'ami, et au Parti du Congrès dans leur combat pour l'indépendance de l'Inde. Actif dans la Province de la Frontière du Nord-Ouest , il a été toute sa vie un pacifiste et un fervent musulman, opposé à la partition, souhaité par la Ligue musulmane de Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Il était connu comme « Badshah Khan », parfois écrit « Bacha Khan », , et le « Gandhi de la frontière », et fut décoré en 1987 par l'Inde du Bharat Ratna. L'un de ses fils, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, devint le leader du Parti national Awami.

✵ 6. février 1890 – 20. janvier 1988
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“Pathans! Your house has fallen into ruin. Arise and rebuild it and remember to what race you belong.”

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Quoted in Eknath Easwaran, A Man to Match his Mountains: Bacha Khan, Nonviolent Soldier of Islam (Nilgiri Press, Petaluma, 1984), p. 25.

“There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.”

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Badshah Khan by Eknath Easwaran (Penguin Books).

“In 1958, Ghaffar Khan wrote that he had been killed ’by those people for whom he had forsaken his own people’.”

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Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia
Source: p 245 (writing in reference to Dr. Khan Sahibs support for the One Unit.

“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. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion.”

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Quoted from the Progressive February 2002

““It is my inmost conviction,” Badshah Khan said, “that Islam is amal, yakeen, muhabat” – selfless service, faith, and love.”

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Badshah Khan by Eknath Easwaran (Penguin Books).

“Whenever I had an opportunity to address the people in different parts of our province, I told them clearly that indeed, I was of the opinion that India should not be divided because today in India we have witnessed the result. Thousands and thousands of young and old, children, men, and women were massacred and ruined. But now that the division is an accomplished fact, the dispute is over. " I delivered many speeches against the division of India, but the question is: has anybody listened to me? You may hold any opinion about me, but I am not a man of destruction but of construction. If you study my life, you will find that I devoted it to the welfare of our country. We have proclaimed that if the Government of Pakistan would work for our people and our country the Khudai Khidmatgars would be with them. I repeat that I am not for the destruction of Pakistan. In destruction lies no good. "Neither Hindus nor Muslims, nor the Frontier, not Punjab, Bengal or Sindh stands to gain from it. There is advantage only in construction. I want to tell you categorically I will not support anybody in destruction. If any constructive programme is before you, if you want to do something constructive for our people, not in theory, but in practice, I declare before this House that I and my people are at your service…”

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February 1948
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan: A True Servant of Humanity by Girdhari Lal Puri pp -188 ? 190

“Better be poisoned in one's own blood then to be poisoned in one's principle.”

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As quoted by Governor Barnett's Declaration to the Profile of Mississippi Broadcast via TV and Radio. Sep. 13, 1962 http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/olemiss/controversy/doc2.html without citation and in An unknown legend of India: A bharat ratna By Gaurav Pundeer https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3736889569
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“Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.”

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Zareef, Adil Saturday, (January 28, 2006) The Demise of a Dream. The Daily Times https://archive.is/20130416144347/www.dailytimes.com.pk/print.asp?page=2006%5C01%5C28%5Cstory_28-1-2006_pg7_35

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