Ajab Khan Afridi ( ps}) was an Afghan guerrilla fighter from Darra Adam Khel belonging to the Afridi tribe of

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. Following a raid on his house by a

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(BIA) detachment in 1923, Afridi declared it a personal affront to his honor and was ordered by his mother to take revenge on the BIA officers which had led the raid. Afridi, along with four other villagers, attacked Kohat Cantonment. The wife of a British officer, Major Ellis, was stabbed and killed during the attack and they kidnapped Ellis'daughter, Molly. On 8 January 1961, Ajab Khan Afridi died at the age of 95 in Mazar-i-Sharif in the Balkh Province of the Kingdom of Afghanistan. A statue of Ajab Khan Afridi was erected in 2018 at Abbas Chowk in his hometown, Darra Adam Khel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistani.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Afridi, Ajab Khan Indian people of Pashtun descent Pashtun people Afridi people 1866 births 1961 deaths

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