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Bahram Khan Family
The Bahram Khan family ( ps, د بهرام خان کورنۍ) is a major political family from Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Family tree The members of Bahram Khan family who have been active in politics are: * Khan Abdul Bahram Khan, the founder of the family * Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (1882–1958) ("Dr. Khan Sahib"), pioneer in the Indian Independence Movement and a Pakistani politician, son of Khan Abdul Bahram Khan * Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890–1988), also known as Bacha Khan, independence activist, son of Khan Abdul Bahram Khan * Abdul Ghani Khan (1914–1996), widely considered as one of the best Pashto language poets of the 20th century, son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan * Abdul Wali Khan (1917–2006), secular democratic socialist leader and opponent of the British Raj, son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan * Abdul Ali Khan (1922-1997), educationist, the youngest son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan * Nasim Wali Khan, politician and wife of Abdul Wali Khan * Asfandyar Wali Khan (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Political Families Of Pakistan
This is a partial listing of prominent political families of Pakistan given in alphabetical order Azhar * Mian Muhammad Azhar (Governor of Punjab, 1990-1993, Mayor of Lahore 1987-1991, founder of PMLN-Q) * Hammad Azhar (Previous Finance Minister of Pakistan) Babar * Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan * Naseerullah Babar * Farhatullah Babar Badshah Khans * Khan Mohammad Abbas Khan (Former member of Indian National Congress, served as the Interim Mister for Industries, Freedom fighter and an Active Member of Pakistan Muslim League) (cousin of Haroon Khan Badshah) * Haroon Khan Badshah (Member of Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, ex-provincial Minister for Agriculture Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa) Bangash * Ghulam Ishaq Khan, President of Pakistan. Bhuttos * Shah Nawaz Bhutto - The Dewan of Junagadh and the Father of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto (Member Bombay Council). ** Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, son of Shah Nawaz (President (1970–1973); Prime Minister (1973–1977)) ** Mumtaz Bhutto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Ali Khan
, birth_date = , birth_place = Utmanzai, Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, British India, now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan , death_date = , death_place = , nationality = , education = Peshawar University , alma_mater = University of Oxford , occupation = Educationist Reformer , relatives = Khan Abdul Ali Khan ( ur, خان عبدالعلي خان; 20 August 1922 – 19 February 1997) was a Pakistani educationist, former Principal of Islamia College Peshawar, The FazleHaq College Mardan, Aitchison College, former Vice Chancellor of Peshawar University, Gomal University and former Education Secretary of NWFP.Yousafzai,R (1997)Educationist and much else. THE NEWS. Jang group Biography Born into a political family, Abdul Ali Khan was the youngest son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Bacha Khan). He remained apolitical in his whole life. He was educated in Colonel Brown Cambridge School in Dehradun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khudai Khidmatgar
Khudai Khidmatgar ( ps, خداۍ خدمتګار; literally "servants of God") was a predominantly Pashtun nonviolent resistance movement known for its activism against the British Raj in colonial India; it was based in the country's North-West Frontier Province (now in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan). Also called ''Surkh Posh'' or "Red Shirts" or "red-dressed", this was originally a social reform organisation focusing on education and the elimination of blood feuds; it was known as the ''Anjuman-e-Islah-e Afghania'' (society for the reformation of Afghans/Pashtoons). The movement was led by Abdul Ghaffar Khan, known locally as Bacha Khan, Badshah Khan, or Sarhadi Gandhi."Red Shirt Movement".(2008) ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Retrieved 14 September 2008, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: ww.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/494519/Red-Shirt-Movement/ref> It gradually became more political as its members were being targeted by the British Raj. By 1929 its leadership was exiled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pashtun People
Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically referred to as Afghans () or xbc, αβγανο () until the 1970s, when the term's meaning officially evolved into that of a demonym for all residents of Afghanistan, including those outside of the Pashtun ethnicity. The group's native language is Pashto, an Iranian language in the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Additionally, Dari Persian serves as the second language of Pashtuns in Afghanistan while those in the Indian subcontinent speak Urdu and Hindi (see Hindustani language) as their second language. Pashtuns are the 26th-largest ethnic group in the world, and the largest segmentary lineage society; there are an estimated 350–400 Pashtun tribes and clans with a variety of origin theories. The total ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimal Wali Khan
Aimal Wali Khan ( ps, اېمل ولي خان; born 18 November 1986) is a Pakistani politician and the provincial president of the Awami National Party (ANP) for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. He is the son of the central president of ANP, Asfandyar Wali Khan; the grandson of the founder of ANP, Abdul Wali Khan; and the great-grandson of the founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement, Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Education Khan completed his early education at Fazl-e-Haq school and College Mardan and his A-levels at Atchison College Lahore. He also earned a Master of Business Administration. Political career Khan started his political career in 2007 as a worker for the Pakhtun Students’ Federation (PSF). He remained associated with the student wing till 2011. Awami National Party holds their intraparty elections every four years. Khan was elected as Joint Secretary in 2011, Afrasiab Khattak was leading the provincial cabinet at that moment. In 2014, Khan was elected as Provincial Depu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sangeen Wali Khan
Sangeen Wali Khan ( ur, سنگين ولی خان) (June 7, 1959 – June 28, 2008) was a politician in Pakistan. He was son of Abdul Wali Khan and Nasim Wali Khan, and the half brother of Asfandyar Wali Khan, leader of Awami National Party. Sangeen Wali Khan was contender for Senate seat from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with a ticket from Awami National Party, in May 2008. Khan contested his last election and was defeated by Saeed Muhammad Khan son of Lala Nisar Muhammad Khan. Khan died on 25 June 2008 at the age of 49. He was suffering from liver cancer and died at the Shaukat Khanum Hospital, Lahore. He left behind a widow, son (Lawangeen Wali Khan) and two daughters. See also * Khan Abdul Bahram Khan * Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan * Abdul Ghaffar Khan * Abdul Ghani Khan * Abdul Wali Khan * Nasim Wali Khan * Asfandyar Wali Khan * Bahram Khan Family * Awami National Party The Awami National Party (ANP; ur, , ps, اولسي ملي ګوند; lit. ''People's National Party'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asfandyar Wali Khan
Asfandyar Wali Khan (Urdu and Pashto: اسفندیار ولی خان) (born 19 February 1949) is a Pakistani Pashtun politician who is the president of the Awami National Party (ANP). His father, Abdul Wali Khan, was the party's first president. He is the grandson of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, better known as ''Bacha Khan''; Abdul Ghaffar was the founder of the non-violent political movement in NWFP , Khudai Khidmatgar ("Servants of the God") during British colonial rule in India and a companion of Mahatma Gandhi. Asfandyar's Granduncle Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan was the Indian National Congress's Chief Minister of the North West Frontier Province, during the waning days of the British Raj, and also the Chief Minister of the province during the early days of independent Pakistan. Asfandyar is the present president of the Awami National Party and has served as Member of Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and senator in the Senate of Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasim Wali Khan
Nasim Wali Khan ( ur, نسيم ولی خان 1933 16 May 2021) was a female politician in Pakistan. Nasim Wali Khan was a leader of Awami National Party–Wali. Nasim Wali Khan was the former provincial president and parliamentary leader of the Awami National Party in Provincial Assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. She was born in 1933. She was one of the main leaders of the Pakistan National Alliance and made history in 1977 as the first woman elected from a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province general seat in the 1977 election.Encyclopaedia of Women in South Asia: Pakistan (2004) Volume 2 of Encyclopaedia of Women in South Asia, Sangh Mittra, , Nasim Wali Khan married Abdul Wali Khan in 1954. She was the mother of Sangeen Wali Khan (late), and Dr Gulalai Wali Khan as well as step-mother of Asfandyar Wali Khan. Nasim Wali Khan died on 16 May 2021 in Charsadda, Pakistan. Further reading * See also * Khan Abdul Bahram Khan * Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan * Abdul Ghaffar Khan * Abdul Ghan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Wali Khan
Khan Abdul Wali Khan ( ps, خان عبدالولي خان; 11 January 1917 – 26 January 2006) was a Pakistani secular democratic socialist and Pashtun leader, and served as president of Awami National Party. Son of the prominent Pashtun nationalist leader Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Wali Khan was an activist and a writer against the British Raj like his father. His early years were marked by his involvement in his father's non-violent resistance movement, the "red shirts" against the British Raj. He narrowly escaped an assassination in his early years and was later sent to school at Colonel Brown Cambridge School, Dehra Dun.Schofield, Victoria (22 August 2003), ''Afghan Frontier Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia''. Tauris Parke Paperbacks; General edition. In his late teens, he became active in the Indian National Congress. After the formation of Pakistan in 1947, Wali Khan became a controversial figure in Pakistani politics during his political career because of his associati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charsadda
Chārsadda ( ps, چارسده; ; ur, ; ) is a town and headquarters of Charsadda District, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.Tehsils & Unions in the District of Charsada – Government of Pakistan It is the eighty fifth-largest city of Pakistan, according to 2017 census. Located in the Valley of Peshawar, Charsadda lies about from the provincial capital of at an altitude of . The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Ghani Khan
, image = Khan Abdul Ghani Khan 1940s.jpg , image_size = 250px , caption = Khan in the 1940s , birth_date = , birth_place = Hashtnagar, North-West Frontier Province, British India, now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan , death_date = , death_place = Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province, now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan , nationality = , notablework = ''Da Panjre Chaghar'', ''Panoos'', ''The Pathans'', ''Da Ghani Latoon'', ''Kuliat-e-Ghani'' , native_name = , native_name_lang = ps , relatives = , pseudonym = , awards = Sitara-i-Imtiaz (1980) Khan Abdul Ghani Khan (; – 15 March 1996) was a Pashtun philosopher, poet, artist, writer and politician. He was a son of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a prominent British Raj-era Indian independence activist. Throughout his life as a poet in both British India and Pakistan, Khan was known by the titles ''Lewanay Pālsapay'' () and ''Da īlam Samander'' (). Life Khan was born in Hashtnagar, in the Frontier Tribal Area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
Abdul Ghaffār Khān (; 6 February 1890 – 20 January 1988), also known as Bacha Khan () or Badshah Khan (), and honourably addressed as Fakhr-e-Afghan (), was a Pakistani Pashtun, independence activist, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement against British colonial rule in India. He was a political and spiritual leader known for his nonviolent opposition and lifelong pacifism; he was a devout Muslim and an advocate for Hindu–Muslim unity in the subcontinent Due to his similar ideologies and close friendship with Mahatma Gandhi, Khan was nicknamed Sarhadi Gandhi (). In 1929, Khan founded the Khudai Khidmatgar, an anti-colonial nonviolent resistance movement. The Khudai Khidmatgar's success and popularity eventually prompted the colonial government to launch numerous crackdowns against Khan and his supporters; the Khudai Khidmatgar experienced some of the most severe repression of the entire Indian independence movement. Khan strongly opposed the pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
