Babrra massacre

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The Babrra massacre occurred in 1948 in the Charsadda District of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, when unarmed workers of the Khudai Khidmatgar movements were fired upon by the provincial government[1] on the orders of the then Chief Minister Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan.[2]

Bacha Khan's speech on the issue

  1. ↑ Miscreants and militants DAWN. Retrieved September 15 2008
  2. ↑ Pakistan: History and Politics, 1947-1971 (1 April 2002)by M.Rafique Afzal p38 OUP Pakistan ISBN 0-19-579634-9

Further reading

  • Gandhi, Rajmohan (2004) Ghaffar Khan: Nonviolent Badshah of the Pakhtuns, Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
  • Khan, Khan Abdul Ghaffar (1969), My Life and Struggle, hind Pocket Books, Delhi.

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