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

—  Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

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

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