Abdul Ghaffar khan was a scion of a leading family belonging to the Mohamadzai Pathan tribe of Village Uttamanzai in the Charsadda tehsil of Peshawar district, in the erstwhile North West Frontier Province of British India. He was born in his village Uttamanzai in 1890. He was a man of great courage and simple habits. he was a devout Muslim and had equal regard for all other religion. His close association with Mahtma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Maulana Azad and other top ranking Indian nationalists greatly influenced his political outlook.

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