The Real King Khan

The real Badshah Khan or King Khan is not the one who you think is, but a Gandhian Muslim who did not want to be separated from India.

He is Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, was a Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India.  A lifelong pacifist, a devout Muslim,[1]and a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, he was also known as Badshah Khan (also Bacha Khan, Urdu, Pashto:lit., "King Khan"), and Sarhaddi Gandhi (Urdu, Hindi lit., "Frontier Gandhi"). In 1985 he was nominated for the Nobel peace prize. In 1987 he became the first non-citizen to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award

Ghaffar Khan's goal came to be the formulation of a united, independent, secular India. To achieve this end, he founded the Khudai Khidmatgar ("Servants of God"), commonly known as the "Red Shirts" (Surkh Posh), during the 1920s.

Between 1915 and 1918 he visited every one of the 500 settled districts of the Frontier. It was in this frenzied activity that he had come to be known as Badshah (Bacha) Khan (King of Chiefs)

Ghaffar Khan strongly opposed the partition of India.[5][6] While some Pashtuns(particularly the Red Shirts) were willing to work with Indian politicians, many Pashtuns were sympathetic to the idea of a separate homeland for India's Muslims following the departure of the British. Targeted with being Anti-Muslim,[6] Ghaffar was attacked by fellow Muslims in 1946, leading to his hospitalisation in Peshawar.

In September 1964, the Pakistani authorities allowed him to go to Britain for treatment. During winter his doctor advised him to go to America. The U S Embassy was reluctant to give him visa because of its ties with Pakistan. The Pakistan Embassy in London opposed his going to Afghanistan or India for treatment.

He visited India and participated in the centenary celebrations of the Indian National Congress in 1985; he was awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1987

Ghaafar Khan spent 52 years of his life imprisoned or in exile.  The notion Khan took the oath of allegiance to the new nation of Pakistan is false.

• Under the new Pakistani government, Ghaffar Khan was under house arrest without charge from 1948 till 1954. 
• Arrested again in 1956 for his opposition to the One Unit scheme he remained in prison till 1957. Re-arrested in 1958 until an illness in 1964 allowed for his release
• From 1972-80 Ghaffar Khan was arrested several times during the government of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and the proceeding military government

Ghaffar Khan died in Peshawar under house arrest in 1988 and was buried in Jalalabad, Afghanistan according to his wishes. The Indian government declared a five-day period of mourning in his honour.  Famous Quotes of King Khan

“I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it. It is the weapon of the Prophet, but you are not aware of it. That weapon is patience and righteousness. No power on earth can stand against it.”

"O Pathans! Your house has fallen into ruin. Arise and rebuild it, and remember to what race you belong."

Bacha Khan's last words to Gandhi and his erstwhile allies in the Congress party were: "You have thrown us to the wolves."

"I had to go to prison many a time in the days of the Britishers. Although we were at loggerheads with them, yet their treatment was to some extent tolerant and polite. But the treatment which was meted out to me in this Islamic state of ours was such that I would not even like to mention it to you."

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http://www.khyber.org/people/sarfaroshan/KhanAbdulGhafarKhan.shtml

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