Parliament of Pakistan: Leaders of the Opposition (Pakistan), Benazir Bhutto, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Nawaz Sharif, Senate of Pakistan

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Leaders of the Opposition (Pakistan), Benazir Bhutto, Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Nawaz Sharif, Senate of Pakistan, National Assembly of Pakistan, Sherbaz Khan Mazari, Fazal-ur-Rehman, Nisar Ali Khan, Constituent Assembly of Pakistan, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, Leader of the Opposition, Parliamentary Special Committee on Kashmir. Excerpt: Connection Timeout Khan Abdul Wali Khan (Pashto:خان عبدالولي خان) (January, 11th, 1917 - January 26, 2006) was a Pakhtun activist against the British Raj, a senior politician in Pakistan and a writer. His early years were marked by his involvement in his father's non-violent resistance movement, the "red shirts" against the British Raj. Early in his life he narrowly escaped an attempt on his life and was later sent to school at Dehra Dun. In his late teens, he became active in the Indian National Congress. After the formation of Pakistan, Wali Khan became a controversial figure in Pakistani politics, he was referred to as both a hero and traitor during his political career because of his association to the Congress which opposed the creation of Pakistan. A respected politician in his later years, he contributed to Pakistan's third constitution, led protests for the restoration of democracy in the 1960s and 1980s. In the 1970s, he also served as the parliamentary leader of opposition in Pakistan's first directly elected parliament. Wali Khan was born on 11 January 1917, to a family of local landlords in the town of Utmanzai in Charsadda district of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of undivided India. His father, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, was a prominent Pashtun and Indian Nationalist and founder of the pacifist Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God) movement. His mother, Mehar Qanda Khan, belonged to the nearby Razar village, and married Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan in 191...