A massacre that took place just before two days of 1st independence on 12th of August 1948 in babarra dist. charsadda..
state claiming to be an ISLAMIC opened fire over 2500 to 3000 peaceful non-voilent servents of God...
800 servants of God were killed while they were protesting for the release of other servants of God who were inprisoned by the state called so pakistan.
more that 300 women were shot to death including the mother of milli rehbar Asfandyar wali khan w/o ABDUL WALI KHAN.their only fault was that they came and asked for mercy to stop the fire.most of the women were hoLding QURAN in their hands
83 children were killed below the age of 15.
after when the bullets of frontier corps,police and army finished,they started to throw the casualities and injuries to the river..hopitals were ordered not to treat the casualties of Babarra.
some of the dead bodies were taken out to police station.
ABDUL QAYYUM KHAN the cheif minister of NWFP known as double barrel khan stated"it was their luck that the bullets of the state finished otherwise no 1 was to be left alive"
when khudai khitmatgars demanded about the dead bodies that were kept in police station the state ordered to take the money of the bullets that were wasted on them.
than BACHA KHAN and AMIR Muhammad khan(grand father of Haider hoti) sold their 293 gerab of land inorder to pay the state for the dead bodies.
when they were allow to take the bodies musician(band baja) was also sent with them.
this scene of brutality and barbarity by the state must be kept in our course books so that every pashtoon knowns their factual history.
many others massacre took place on our land such as qissa khwani massacre,takkar massacre,waziri massacre,bannu massacre,spen tangi massacre etc
we being pushtoons is our duty to know it..
Source :
Faraz khattak
