Abdul Ghaffār Khān, who passed
away on 20 January 1988, was a Pashtun independence activist who worked to end
the rule of the British Raj in India. He was a political and spiritual leader
known for his nonviolent opposition; he was a lifelong pacifist and devout
Muslim. A close friend of Mohandas Gandhi, Bacha Khan was nicknamed the
"Frontier Gandhi" in British India by his close associate Amir Chand
Bombwal. Bacha Khan founded the Khudai Khidmatgar ("Servants of
God") movement in 1929. Its success triggered a harsh crackdown by the
British Raj against him and his supporters, and they suffered some of the most
severe repression of the Indian independence movement.
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