Fakhr-e-Afghan Peace Conference opens in Kabul
[21.May.2008 - 07:32]Kabul (PAN) Rich tributes were paid to late Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as Fakhr-e-Afghan here on Monday at the opening ceremony of a three-day seminar to commemorate the 20th death anniversary of the great Pakhtun leader.
Arranged by Area Studies Center Kabul the opening ceremony was attended by large number of parliamentarians, including cabinet ministers, poets, writers and literary luminaries from Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
Mohammad Karim Khalili, second vice president of Afghanistan in his address paid rich tributes to the struggle of Bacha Khan. He said Bacha Khan had dedicated his whole life to the betterment of his people and stood like a rock for the independence of his people. He said that even he was not able to see his mother on her death bed because when he was released from prison his mother had been long passed away.
Khalili said Bacha Khan was a leader of whom every Afghan should be proud because he was respected not only in Afghanistan but in the whole sub-continent. He said Baacha Khan wanted the unity of Afghan nation and that was why he preferred in Afghanistan (JalalAbad) instead of Pakistan where he was born.
Veteran nationalist and central leader of Awami National Party, Mohammad Afzal KhanLala while addressing the function said that today the whole world was a dire need to adopt the philosophy of Baacha Khan. He said that non-violence philosophy of Bacha Khan was not a new philosophy it was enshrined in all the sacred religions including Islam. He sad Bacha Khan defeated the British Empire, a super power of the time with the force of this philosophy and liberated the whole subcontinent from foreign occupation.
“I believe Baacha Khan was the only Pakhtun leader who preferred to adopt the non-violence philosophy for his fight against foreign occupation,” Lala said and added that earlier the great Afghan leaders like Ahmad Shah Baba and Mirawais Neka had conquered the subcontinent but that was with the might of their arms.
He said Bacha Khan had one mission and that was to reunite the Pakhtun (Afghan) nation on one geographical location because the British rulers by dividing Pakhtun into various geographical boundaries within Afghanistan and Pakistan had weakened their national strength.
“Bacha Khan not only struggled for the achievement of this goal during his life time but even worked for it after death by expressing his will to be buried in Afghanistan,” Lala remarked.
Ghulam Nabi Farahi, deputy in the ministry of information culture in his address said that Baba was a leader who had no personal aims during all his life and served the Pakhtun nation selfless.
A big delegation from India also arrived in Kabul to attend the moot.- Pukhtunkhwa
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