Abdul Ghaffar Khan, (born 1890, Utmanzai, India—died Jan. 20, 1988, Peshawar, Pak.) the foremost 20th-century leader of the Pashtuns(Pakhtuns, or Pathans; a Muslim ethnic group of Pakistan and Afghanistan), who became a follower of Mahatma Gandhi and was called the “Frontier Gandhi.”
He spearheaded Red Shirt Movement against British and was awarded Bharat Ratna ,the highest civilian honor by the Government of India .