Babrra massacre

Coordinates: 34°08′58″N 71°44′34″W / 34.1494°N 71.7428°W / 34.1494; -71.7428

The Babrra massacre occurred on 12 August 1948 in the Charsadda District of the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pukhtunkhwa) of Pakistan, when unarmed members of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement and thousands Pukhtun(Pashtuns) civilians who gathered in a Jirga to declare independence from newly created Pakistan were fired upon by the provincial government[1] on the orders of the then Chief Minister Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan.[2] The protest was against the promulgation of Public Safety Ordinance by the provincial governor and the resulting arrests of Khudai Khidmatgar leaders and confiscations of property.[3] Different sources state various numbers of people killed in this massacre, some as high as 60. Even larger numbers were injured.[4][5][6]

Further reading

  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
  3. ↑ نن بابړه کې د وژل شوؤ سوؤنو پښتنو ورځ نمانځل کیږي - VoA
  4. ↑ زه بابړه یم - Noor ul Bashar Naveed
  5. ↑ M.S. Korejo (1993). The Frontier Gandhi: His Place in History. Karachi: Oxford University Press.
  6. ↑ Afzal, M.Rafique (1 April 2002) Pakistan: History and Politics, 1947–1971.p38 OUP Pakistan ISBN 0-19-579634-9
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