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Pathans, who have already made heavy sacrifices and suf-
fered untold privations. We will not rest content till we
succeed in establishing Pathanistan — rule of the Pathans,
by the Pathans and for the Pathans."
Three days later he was arrested. His son Abdul
Wall Khan and two other Red Shirt leaders were arrested
with him. A summary trial was held in the little mud-
plastered rest-house of Banda Baud Shah on the main
road to Bannu. He was charged with ' sedition * and ' in-
tended collaboration with the hostile Faqir of Ipi'. The
Deputy Commissioner of Kohat, who was holding the trial,
asked Mm to produce his defence. But beyond saying that
lie was not guilty, he refused to defend himself. The
Magistrate then asked him if he was willing to furnish a
security of good behaviour for three years as required
under Section 40 of Frontier Crimes Regulation. But the
Khan replied that " he had never given such securities In
the past and would not do so now." The minimum punish-
ment of three years' rigorous imprisonment with hard
labour was then awarded to him.
Immediately after Badshah Khan's arrest, the North-
West Frontier Province Government issued a com-
munique explaining its action. After stating that notwith-
standing the fact that the division of India was mutually
agreed to by the Congress and the Muslim League, Abdul
Ghaffar Khan "utterly opposed the establishment of
Pakistan ", the communique went on to say : " he advised
his followers not to take part In the Independence celebra-
tions on August 15 and not to take the oath of allegiance
to the new State of Pakistan. Accordingly, Ms brother's
Ministry which was in power at that time had to be dis-
missed for disloyalty to Pakistan......At the same time,
he began enlarging Ms sphere of activities by founding
the so-called People's Party by rallying together all old
Congress elements in Pakistan......After Ms second visit
to Karachi Badshah Khan returned to the province with
a definite and clearly laid out plot to create disturbances
in the N. W. F, P. to synchronize with the expected and
much-advertised advance of the Indian Army towards the