Abdul ghaffar khan biography of mahatma

In the Mohamadzai clan of the village of Utmanzai in Peshawar district there lived a kind and humble well-to-do landowner Baharam Khan.

Abdul Ghaffar or Badshah Khan as he came to be known in later years was his fourth child.

When Abdul Ghaffar was five or six years old, he was admitted to a mosque to take lessons from a Mullah.

Bacha khan baba history

In due course the young lad had finished reading the Holy Koran. He was, then, sent to the Municipal Board High School and later to Edwardes Memorial Mission High School at Peshawar, where the Rev. E F E Wigram was his headmaster.

He was a person who greatly impressed Abdul Ghaffar and instilled in him the spirit of service to all creatures created by God.

In November , while Abdul Ghaffar was in his sixth class, a servant named Barani Kaka tried to persuade him to get into military profession.

The persuasion bore fruit and Abdul Ghaffar applied for a Commission in the army. But an incident at the army camp touched his sensibility and t