SWABI: Faiz Mohammad Khan Kaka, a renowned Khudai Khidmatgar who had quit Awami National Party and joined Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), passed away here on Wednesday. He was 88.

Manzoor Pashteen, PTM president, visited his residence and offered fateha for the departed soul. He paid rich tribute to Kaka.

Faiz Kaka, who hailed from Shewa village, was an established jirga figure who never hesitated to speak the truth.

He was about 14-years old when Pakistan got independence and he would usually narrate the memories of the independence struggle.

His father, Shad Mohammad Khan, was also a staunch Khudai Khidmatgar.

During Ayub Khan’s regime when Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was arrested along with his supporters while protesting against One Unit plan Kaka was also among them.

He was a brave person and had told Asfandyar Wali Khan and late Begum Naseem Wali Khan that they had diverted from the true philosophy of Bacha Khan, and later quit ANP as a protest.

Liaquat Yousafzai, PTM’s district president, recalled that when they were arrested along with Kaka after the Swabi public meeting, Kaka was told by police to go home. However, he told the police that he could not leave unless his colleagues were freed.

Faiz Kaka was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard at Shewa village. His funeral was attended by PTM leaders, jirga members and activists of various political parties.

JUI-F MEETING: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl provincial chief Senator Maulana Attaur Rehman said here on Wednesday that JUI-F would clean sweep the second phase of local government elections in Hazara, Malakand division and other districts likethe first phase.

He expressed these views while addressing his party workers here. Congratulating the newcomers who joined the party, he said the caravans of DI Khan, Balochistan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Tank, Lakki Marwat, Karak, Bannu and Hangu would join other caravans of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on March25.

Afterwards, all the caravans will reach Islamabad in the evening under the leadership of JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman.

Published in Dawn, March 24th, 2022