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Thanks. Wow ! A Pakistani?
He was opposed to the partition and was beaten up and hospitalized for it. From wiki
On April 23, 1930, Ghaffar Khan was arrested during protests arising out of the Salt Satyagraha. A crowd of Khudai Khidmatgar gathered in Peshawar's Kissa Khwani (Storytellers) Bazaar. The British ordered troops to open fire with machine guns on the unarmed crowd, killing an estimated 200–250.[13] The Khudai Khidmatgar members acted in accord with their training in non-violence under Ghaffar Khan, facing bullets as the troops fired on them.[14] Two platoons of the The Garhwal Rifles regiment refused to fire on the non-violent crowd. They were later court-martialled with heavy punishment, including life imprisonment. Ghaffar Khan was a champion of women's rights and nonviolence. He became a hero in a society dominated by violence; notwithstanding his liberal views, his unswerving faith and obvious bravery led to immense respect. Throughout his life, he never lost faith in his non-violent methods or in the compatibility of Islam and nonviolence. He viewed his struggle as a jihad with only the enemy holding swords. He was closely identified with Gandhi because of his non-violence principles and he is known in India as the 'Frontier Gandhi'.[5] One of his Congress associates was Pandit Amir Chand Bombwal of Peshawar.
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dsLvE8UEt54 Ahmed Kathrada was imprisoned on Robben Island with Mandela for years. He spent 26 years in prison. Kathrada was born in the small country town of Schweizer-Reneke in the Western Transvaal, the fourth of sixth children in a Gujarati-family of South African Indian Muslim immigrant parents from Surat.

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