Asfandyar wali khan cartoon

WALIBAGH is to the ANP what Garhi Khuda Bakhsh is to PPP or Jati Umra is to the Sharifs.

Nestled in the heart of Charsadda, Walibagh stands as a symbol of political heritage.

This sprawling homestead in the fertile Bahloli village is the cradle of the Walis, the current flagbearers of Pakhtun nationalist politics in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, led by Asfandyar Wali Khan and his heir apparent, Aimal Wali Khan.

The walls of its drawing room, protected within the secure confines of the hujra behind high walls and security barricade, narrate a year history, tracing the lineage from the British Raj era in undivided India to modern-day Pakistan.

Large portraits of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the founder of the Khudai Khidmatgar resistance movement reverently known as Bacha Khan, his son Abdul Wali Khan, grandson Asfandyar, and great-grandson Aimal, bedeck the light-grey tiled walls.

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