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  • #46
    Originally posted by Smarty View Post
    I am not concerned with jinnah and gandhi, they were hindustanis . Jinnah had nothing to lose if his wish was not granted by his british lords, he was born hindostani and could live as one.
    But its strange to see "fakhr-e-afghan" doing politics as a hindostani. I can understand him as social reformer but his party contesting in elections as partners of indian congress is beyond me. Why he was struggling for liberation of hindostan? he was supposed to struggle for liberation of pakhtuns. Congress also made promises with sikhs and you know what happened to them. If partition had not happened, there was no way congress was giving away NWFP. So bacha khan, in my opinion, was an average leader of limited influence, he was rather more of a social reformer and philospher. You lead your nation like ataturk, you have to fight wars when the situation demands. I know hundreds of Pusies die at babra without lifting a finger at pakis.
    The liberation of Pakhtuns and Pakhtunkhwa wasn't possible without the independence of Hindustan and without joining hands with the main stream parties i.e Congress & ML.
    Yes Bacha khan was a leader of limited influence because he was the leader of a small ethnic group in Hindustan and that too divided into factions. The faction and piece of Land for which he was struggling was already sold to the British by their brothers whose support with the People of Pakhtunkhwa at that time was nothing more than few emotional slogans. The Province was kept a loop from rest of Hindustan and unlike other province no constitutional reforms were introduced here.The rest of Hindustan was unaware about the atrocities and cruelties of the British which they inflicted upon the people of Pakhtunkhwa in general and on Khudai Khidmatgars in particular. Describing the then political scenario, the british attitude towards pakhtunkhwa and the affiliation of KKs with Congress Bacha khan in his autobiography writes:
    " On 16 August, Martial Law was declared
    and for the time being the Province was cut off from the rest
    of the subcontinent. Visits to and from the province were
    not allowed and all sorts of communication were strictly
    censored.30 Frequent firing and lathi charge foray into the
    unarmed, non-violent Khudai Khidmatgar became a
    routine. The Khudai Khidmatgars were stripped and
    flogged and forced to walk naked through the cordons of
    soldiers who prodded them with rifles and bayonets as they
    passed. They were physically humiliated publicly and all
    kind of inhumane treatment was inflicted upon them. On
    previous occasions, when the Khudai Khidmatgars had not
    yet pledged themselves to non-violence, all such acts of
    provocation were avenged by the Pashtoons, whenever,
    they got an opportunity. However, now they were told to
    bear all these atrocities and insults with forbearance and
    courage, and not to retaliate. The Khudai Khidmatgars
    faithfully followed the non violence doctrine and offered no resistance
    to the government. Ironically, appalled at the attitude of the
    government oppression and as a reaction to the government
    atrocities over the non-violent Khudai Khidmatgars, a large
    number of Frontier inhabitants enrolled themselves in the
    Khudai Khidmatgar cadres, thus providing a boost to the
    movement. Before 23 April 1930, the Khudai Khidmatgars
    were about twelve hundred, but, after the government repression, their number exceeded twenty-five thousands within a couple of months.
    Mian Jaffar Shah and Abdullah Shah, two of the
    prominent Khudai Khidmatgars, who had escaped sentence,
    secretly came to Gujarat jail and met me and other
    Khudai Khidmatgar leaders and informed us of the
    government’s oppression in the N-WFP. They further told
    us that the government was trying to prove their connection with the Bolsheviks. To avoid further repression by the government, it was decided to affiliate their organisation with an all-India political body. As Mian Jaffar
    Shah had contacts in the Punjab, especially with Malik Lal Khan, the Khilafatist, he used that channel to meet Sir Fazli Hussain, the ‘strong man of Unionism’ in the Punjab, and a prominent member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council. But to the utter despair he refused to help KKS against the British government. Their next choice was the Indian National Congress. As the Congress was on the war path against the British Indian government, they
    readily agreed to make a common cause with the Khudai Khidmatgars against British imperialism. But meanwhile the political scenario had been changed."

    so Basically Bacha Khan was a reformist and KK organisation was a movement for the reformation of Pakhtun society but with the passage of time they were compelled to shape it in a political movement because they knew that the british was the main hurdle in their way.
    Na soz sho na saaz sho,
    Bas hasy jwand tamam sho

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