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- Abdul Gaffar Khan, a devout Muslim, organized a nonviolent anti-British campaign that spread throughout the country.
- Abdul Gaffar Khan was called the “Frontier Gandhi.”
- In 1910, Abdul Gaffar Khan, then 20 years old, established a mosque school in his village.
- He was a political and spiritual leader who was honored for his nonviolent protest when the British government forcibly disbanded his school in 1915.
- Abdul Gaffar Khan was forced into exile in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1960.
- During the 1919 Rowlatt Acts protests, Ghaffar Khan met Gandhi and entered politics.
- Abdul Gaffar Khan created the Pashtun Red Shirt movement (Khudai Khitmatgar).
- In 1972, Ghaffar Khan went back to Pakistan. My Life and Struggle, his autobiography, was published in 1969.
- Abdul Gaffar Khan was adamantly against dividing India.
- 200,000 people, including Afghan President Mohammad Najibullah, attended his funeral.