Khan Abdul Wali Khan

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Khan Abdul Wali Khan خان عبدالولي خان خان عبدالولی خان‬
Abdul Wali Khan with Kabir Stori
Leader of the Opposition
In office 2 December 1988 – 6 August 1990
Preceded by	Fakhar Imam
Succeeded by	Benazir Bhutto
In office 14 April 1972 – 17 August 1975
Preceded by	Nurul Amin
Succeeded by	Sherbaz Khan Mazari
Personal details
Born	11 January 1917 Utmanzai, British Raj (now Pakistan)
Died	26 January 2006 (aged 89) Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Political party	Indian National Congress(Before 1947) National Awami Party (1957–1968) National Awami Party-Wali(1968–1986) Awami National Party (1986–2006)

Abdul Wali Khan with Kabir Stori

Khan Abdul Wali Khan (Pashto: خان عبدالولي خان‎, Urdu: خان عبدالولی خان‬‎, born: 11 January 1917 – 26 January 2006) was a British Indian and later Pakistani secular democratic socialist and Pashtun leader, and served as president of National Awami Party. Son of the prominent Pashtun nationalist leader Bacha Khan, Wali Khan was an activist and a writer against the British Raj like his father.
His early years were marked by his involvement in his father's non-violent resistance movement, the "red shirts" against the British Raj. He narrowly escaped an assassination in his early years and was later sent to school at Colonel Brown Cambridge School, Dehra Dun. In his late teens, he became active in the Indian National Congress. After the formation of Pakistan in 1947, Wali Khan became a controversial figure in Pakistani politics 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 and 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.