History of the Pashtun people
The above common photo is wrongly attributed to be Faqir of Ipi. According to Jahangir Khan Sikandari (a historian from Bannu who has written a book on Faqir of Ipi), the above photo is of Shami Pir. The photo of Faqir of Ipi which is verified as authentic by local historians of Waziristan, are the … Read more
On 12th May 1948, the Mirza Ali Khan alias Faqir of Ipi published and issued an anti-Pakistan poster from his headquarters, at Gurweik. In the poster he claimed that “Pakistan was a creation of the British and Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a British agent”. He further declared that “he would start an operation against the … Read more
Author: Dr.Fazlur Rahman (Asst.Professor, GPGC, Mansehra) Today, the name of Ipi is hardly remembered outside the Muslim central Asia and Europe only by any surviving administrators and soldiers who served on the Frontier. The foremost authority on the region, Sir Olaf Caroe’s (1) official correspondence that time was full of the Faqir’s name, but he … Read more