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Bacha Khan's Legacy... Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as Bacha Khan or the "Frontier Gandhi," was a Pashtun independence activist and political leader from Pakistan. He was born on February 6, 1890, in the village of Utmanzai in the present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Bacha Khan was the founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar or "Servants of God" movement, also known as the Red Shirts. The movement was a nonviolent, anti-colonialist movement that aimed to bring social and political change to the Pashtun regions of India. Bacha Khan was a strong advocate of nonviolence and believed that violence would only lead to further violence and suffering. He was heavily influenced by Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance and actively participated in India's independence movement. Throughout his life, Bacha Khan was committed to the principles of democracy, social justice, and equality. He fought tirelessly for the rights of the po...