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Afzal Bangash: the Marxist maverick

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By Dr Mohammad Taqi
“I count myself in nothing else so happy, As in a soul remembering my good friends” — Shakespeare in Richard II
Reminiscing about some of the stars of the secular galaxy of Pakistan and especially Pakhtunkhwa is needed not just due to a family association or personal, feel-good nostalgia. It is a must because the current generations – being fed a steady diet of Wahabiism – ought to get acquainted with the history of this land.
Where first the state-controlled, and now the state-indoctrinated media persons have systematically relegated both our saints and secularists to oblivion while projecting larger-than-life images of the obscurantist characters from Pakistan Studies and Islamic Studies textbooks, such recollections become an obligation. One such distinguished progressive was the leader of the Mazdoor Kissan Party (MKP), Muhammad Afzal Bangash who died on this day (October 28) in 1986. ….
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2 thoughts on “Afzal Bangash: the Marxist maverick”

  1. salam
    mazdur kisan party ka saddar afazal bangash bahut acah admi ta
    our may bahut like kar ta at
    ap is waqat london may ho
    our dr najumu sahar bi waha p hay
    sab ko salam
    a wahab bangash
    karachi pka
    pak

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