Researching Abdul Khan

Khan strongly opposed the proposal for the Partition of India into the Hindu-majority Dominion of India and Muslim-majority Dominion of Pakistan, and consequently sided with the pro-union Indian National Congress and All-India Azad Muslim Conference against the pro-partition All-India Muslim League. When the Indian National Congress reluctantly declared its acceptance of the partition plan without consulting the Khudai Khidmatgar leaders, he felt deeply betrayed, telling the Congress leaders "you have thrown us to the wolves." In June 1947, Khan and other Khudai Khidmatgar leaders formally issued the Bannu Resolution to the British authorities, demanding that the ethnic Pashtuns be given a choice to have an independent state of Pashtunistan, which was to comprise all of the Pashtun territories of British India and not be included (as almost all other Muslim-majority provinces were) within the state of Pakistan—the creation of which was still underway at the time. However, the British government openly refused to comply with the demands of this resolution. In response, Khan and his elder brother, Abdul Jabbar Khan, boycotted the 1947 North-West Frontier Province referendum on deciding whether the province should be merged with India or Pakistan, citing that it did not have the options for the Pashtun-majority province to become independent or to join neighbouring Afghanistan.

After the Partition of India was brought into effect by the British government on 14 August 1947, Khan pledged allegiance to the newly created nation of Pakistan, and stayed in the now-Pakistani North-West Frontier Province; he was frequently arrested by the Pakistani government between 1948 and 1954. In 1956, he was arrested for his opposition to the One Unit program, under which the government announced its plan to merge all the provinces of West Pakistan into a single unit to match the political structure of erstwhile East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). Khan was jailed or in exile during much of the 1960s and 1970s. Following his will upon his death in Peshawar while under house arrest in 1988, he was buried at his house in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of mourners attended his funeral, marching through the Khyber Pass from Peshawar towards Jalalabad. It was marred by two bomb explosions that killed 15 people; despite the heavy fighting at the time due to the Soviet–Afghan War, both sides, namely the Soviet–Afghan government coalition and the Afghan mujahideen, declared an immediate ceasefire to allow Khan's burial.

An émigré from India who migrated to Pakistan in 1952, Khan was educated in the metallurgical engineering departments of Western European technical universities where he pioneered studies in phase transitions of metallic alloys, uranium metallurgy, and isotope separation based on gas centrifuges. After learning of India's "Smiling Buddha" nuclear test in 1974, Khan joined his nation's clandestine efforts to develop atomic weapons when he founded the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) in 1976 and was both its chief scientist and director for many years.

In January 2004, Khan was subjected to a debriefing by the Musharraf administration over evidence of nuclear proliferation handed to them by the Bush administration of the United States. Khan was accused of selling nuclear secrets illegally and was put under house arrest in 2004. After years of house arrest, Khan successfully filed a lawsuit against the Federal Government of Pakistan at the Islamabad High Court whose verdict declared his debriefing unconstitutional and freed him on 6 February 2009. After his death on 10 October 2021, he was given a state funeral at the Faisal Mosque before being buried at the H-8 graveyard in Islamabad.

Khan was born in Buner in 1944 and graduated from Jahanzeb College, Saidu Sharif, Swat in 1967. He completed his masters in history at Punjab University in 1969. Khan earned his LLB from SM Law College, Karachi, and his masters in political science from the University of Karachi in 1971. After completing his education, Khan joined the prosecution branch of police, but resigned after his elder brother joined the civil service in 1975.

Abdul Matin Khan joined the Awami National Party (ANP) in 1989. He applied for the party ticket in 1990 but the ticket of his constituency went to IJI as ANP was the part of Combined Opposition. Instead, Khan contested the election as an independent candidate and won the election for National Assembly. In 1993, Khan won the National Assembly seat again.

In 1997, Khan was again given the party ticket and he won the election for the third time. He was made Parliamentary Secretary for Social Welfare and Women's Development. Martial Law was imposed in the country in 1999 and no elections were held until 2002. In 2002, he lost to the religo-political alliance MMA, and was returned to the assembly again in 2008. He was tipped as minister of state when he died of a cardiac arrest.

His funeral prayer was held at Shaheena Jameel Hospital Abbottabad at 4.00 p.m. on 18 October 2021.

According to historian Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, he is alleged to be an improvised explosive device facilitator captured in Qalat district, Zabul Province.He was reported to have "planned and conducted IED attacks against Coalition forces, harbored and facilitated suicide bombers and raised finances for Taliban operations.”

Khan has performed at many music festivals like Bhopal Sarangi Mela and has been a staff artist at the All India Radio. He has performed as an accompanist to such renowned musicians as Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Amir Khan, Hirabai Barodekar, Nazakat and Salamat Ali Khan, Kumar Gandharva, Mallikarjun Mansur and Kishori Amonkar. A recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1992, Abdul Latif Khan was honored by the Government of India with the fourth highest Indian civilian award, the Padma Shri, in 2002.

Death: Khan died in 2002 at the age of 68..

Abdul Haq Khan was born in Diver Anderbugh village of Lolab Valley. He has studied B.A. LLB from Kashmir University which he completed in 1977.

In 2014 Assembly elections, Khan was elected for the second time by defeating Qaiser Jamsheed Lone of National Conference by a margin of 2870 votes.

Khan is a critic of the liquor trend in Kashmir.

On 6 January 2019 when his security was withdrawn by the Government, Khan blamed BJP for the same.