Pashtunistan
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Pashtunistan or Pakhtunistan is a historical region on the crossroads of Central and South Asia, located on the Iranian Plateau, inhabited by the Pashtun people of southern and eastern Afghanistan and
Pashtunistan as in the Pashtun-majority areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan (in green)
Pashtun children, indigenous to the Pashtunistan region
The area during 500 B.C. was recorded as Arachosia and inhabited by a people called the Pactyans.
Coronation of Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747 by a 20th-century Afghan artist, Abdul Ghafoor Breshna.
Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, also known as Bacha Khan and Badshah Khan, was an Indian independence activist from the North-West Frontier Province, and founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement
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…of its eastern territory to the Sikh Empire and later the British Empire. Many famous Indian independence activists emerged from the region including Abdul Ghaffar Khan and his anti-colonial Khudai Khidmatgar movement to free the region from British control. In 1969, the autonomous princely states of Swat, Dir, Chitral…
Khan, c. 1960s
Khan at a pro-independence rally in Peshawar with Mahatma Gandhi in 1938
Khan leading a march from Peshawar, India to Kabul, Afghanistan during the Khilafat Movement, which sought to restore the Islamic Caliph of the Ottoman Empire after its defeat in World War I (c. 1920)
Followers of Khan's Khudai Khitmatgar movement (c. 1947)