(1917-01-11)11 January 1917 Utmanzai, British India
Died
26 January 2006(2006-01-26) (aged 89) Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan
Political party
Awami National Party (1986–2006)
Other political affiliations
Khudai Khidmatgar Indian National Congress (Before 1947) National Awami Party (1957–1968) National Awami Party-Wali (1968–1986)
Spouse
Nasim Wali Khan
(m. 1954)
Relations
Abdul Ghani Khan (brother) Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan (uncle) Khan Abdul Bahram Khan (Grand father)
Children
Sangeen Wali Khan Asfandyar Wali Khan
Parent(s)
Abdul Ghaffar Khan Meharqanda Kinankhel
Education
Azad Islamia High School
Khan Abdul Wali Khan (Pashto: خان عبدالولي خان; Urdu: خان عبدالولی خان; 11 January 1917 – 26 January 2006) was a Pakistani democratic socialist politician who served as president of Awami National Party. Son of the prominent Pashtun nationalist leader Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Wali Khan was an activist and a writer against the British Raj like his father.[1]
His early years were marked by his involvement in his father's non-violent resistance movement, the "red shirts" against the British Raj. He narrowly escaped an assassination in his early years and was later sent to school at Colonel Brown Cambridge School, Dehra Dun.[2] In his late teens, he became active in the Indian National Congress. After the formation of Pakistan in 1947, Wali Khan became a controversial figure in Pakistani politics during his political career because of his association to the Congress which opposed the creation of Pakistan.[3][4]
A respected politician in his later years, he contributed to Pakistan's third constitution and led protests for the restoration of democracy in the 1960s and 1980s.[5] In the 1970s, he also served as the parliamentary leader of opposition in Pakistan's first directly elected parliament.
^Interview with Wali Khan, Feroz Ahmed Pakistan Forum, Vol. 2, No. 9/10 (June – July 1972), pp. 11-13-18.
^Schofield, Victoria (22 August 2003), Afghan Frontier Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia. Tauris Parke Paperbacks; General edition. ISBN 1-86064-895-9
^Pirzada, Sayyid A. S. (2000). The Politics of the Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Islam Pakistan, 1971–1977. Oxford University Press Inc, USA. ISBN 0-19-579302-1
^"Abdul Wali Khan". www.comminit.com. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
^Chowk, Khan Abdul Wali Khan: His Father's Shadow? January 25, 2006 Archived 27 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine. Last accessed 23 June 2006.
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