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Babrra massacre
1948 mass shooting by police in present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
The Babrra Massacre (or Babara Massacre; Pashto: د بابړې خونړۍ پېښه) was a mass shooting on 12 August 1948 in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan (now called as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa).
According to official figures, around 15 protestors were killed while around 40 were injured.by whom? However, Khudai Khidmatgar sources maintained that around 150 were killed and 400 were injured.[1]
It happened on Babrra ground in Charsadda District on the order of the chief minister of the NWFP, Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri (not to be confused with Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Khan, NWFP's first chief minister during the British Raj).[2]
Background
The Khudai Khidmatgar was a non-violent peaceful Pashtun movement which was led by Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Bacha Khan), a leader in the Indian Independence Movement.[3]
The movement was initially focused on reform to the