Peshawar, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan’s educational and social reform work among the Pathans had politicized them.  

Gaffar Khan, also called Badshah Khan and Frontier Gandhi, had started the first Pushto political monthly Pukhtoon and had organised a volunteer brigade ‘Khudai Khidmatgars’, popularly known as the ‘Red-Shirts’, who were pledged to the freedom struggle and non-violence. 

Source: Spectrum Modern India.