Bhadshah Khan’s Afghan World Peace Movement
Is not the Pashtun amenable to love and reason? He will go with you to hell if you can win his heart, but you cannot force him even to go to heaven – Badshah Khan
Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also known as Bacha Khan or Badshah Khan, and honorably addressed as Fakhr-e-Afghan, was a Pashtun, Indian freedom fighter, independence activist, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India.
by Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould
If anyone today could name a historical figure connected to the origin of non-violent resistance against political oppression, it would most likely be India’s Mohandas Gandhi.
Gandhi virtually defined the idea of non-violent resistance in his struggle to free India from British colonial rule. But in 1929, a...