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Abdul Ghafar Khan as a social reformer

January 28, 2013
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Abdul Ghafar Khan as a social reformer

It is uncommon for politicians to strive for social reforms in their nations; rather they utilize their people’s social gaps for their own interest. Very rarely, politicians pay attention to their people’s social issues. Only leaders with long lasting visions for their people and leaders, who do not exclusively think about their self interest; Rather, they love their people to death and try social reforms in their people’s lives. The work of Bacha Khan proves that he was deeply concerned not only with the political but also social lives of his people. He believed that if Pashtoons got rid...

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Abdul Ghafar Khan, The Frontier Gandhi, a forgotten Story

October 16, 2012
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Abdul Ghafar Khan, The Frontier Gandhi, a forgotten Story

It was only two months ago when residents of Andar District of Ghazni province took up arms against the Taliban and forced them to leave their area. Within a few days, the locals got control of about 57 villages. The up risers said that they wanted to reopen schools and clinics in their area, which they did after they forced the Taliban to leave. Though the Taliban labeled the uprising as a government project but the up risers call it a people movement for their rights. The resistance in Ghazni met a hard reaction from the Taliban but it...

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Afghan students protest renaming of their university

September 26, 2012
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Afghan students protest renaming of their university

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Students at the Education University in Kabul enter their sixth day of peaceful demonstrations and a boycott of classes as they protest the renaming of their school after Professor Burhanduddin Rabbani.

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Afghans search for realistic alternatives

May 21, 2012
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Afghans search for realistic alternatives

by Ahmadullah Archiwal. On the first day of a recent nonviolence training for a mix of scholars, students, journalists, and religious and tribal leaders in Afghanistan’s Kunar province, I asked what they knew about nonviolent civic mobilization. A number of them responded “women’s rights,” while some said “democracy,” and others “pacifying people.” They were all

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Afghanistan needs a new kind of mobilization

January 19, 2012
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Afghanistan needs a new kind of mobilization

A recent report by the Asia Foundation cites corruption—next to security and poverty—as one of the three issues Afghans are most concerned about. A recent example of corruption can be found in the transportation of timber in Kunar. According to a member of the Lower House of Afghanistan’s parliament, who did not want his name

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  • At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
    Martin Luther King, Jr.

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