Khushal Khan, son of Sher Muhammad, Yusufzai, Village Barikab, District Peshawar. He was bom in 1877 and educated at the Islamia School, Rawalpindi. He went to Canada about 1909 and thence to California where he came into contact with the Indian revolutionary party and imbibed their ideas. He collected money for the Islamic cause and was Secretary of the Committee formed to collect subscriptions for the Turkish War Fund at Sacramento at the end of 1912. His brother was suspected to be editing the Pushto edition ofthe "Ghadr". He returned to India in 1913 after an extensive tour of Europe. In America he called himself an Afghan because he was ashamed to call himself an Indian as being synonymous with slave. While here he visited the Aligarh College and was reported to have entered into seditious conversations with students and visited the Ali Bros, and Dr. Ansari. He was stated to have an acquaintance of a very suspicious Afghan, named Naqshband, in Egypt. In April 1915 he paid a short visit to Japan travelling in the same boat as Rash Behari Bose (R-32) and met Bhagwan Singh of village Viring, district Amritsar (formerly a leader of the Ghadr Party) at Kobe. From Japan he went to Valparaiso, Argentine and Brazil, and returned to California at the end of 1915. He came under suspicion in connection with enquiries made in the States regarding Mubarik Ali. He confessed having contributed to and collected money for the Turkish War Fund but all the time he professed loyalty to the Consul-General at San Francisco. In march 1918 he denied any connection with the Indo-German Conspiracy Case. In May 1919 he was alleged to have described Lord Sinha and Amir Ali as "dogs who wag their tail to the British Government", and in December of the same year he published his book entitled "The History ofTruth and Justice" which according to him aimed at exposing Christianity and Great Britain. He arrived in Berlin in 1920 and after staying there for a few months proceeded to Moscow where he is reported to have entered into negotiations with the Soviet Officials for the transportation of arms to the Indian border. He left Moscow in February 1921 for India via Tashkent. Suspected to be a British spy he was subsequently arrested at Merv on 3rd April 1921 and was taken to Moscow where he was kept in confinement till the 18th October 1921. He left Moscow on 15th June 1922 and arrived in Peshawar via Afghanistan on 30th March 1923. He was interviewed on arrival and gave useful and interesting information. He again came to notice in June 1924 when he was reported to have incited the people to start agitation against the settlement. He is now reported to be a dangerous agitator with strong Bolshevik tendencies. He joined the Youth League movement and was a member of the Central Organisation at Utmanzai. Devi Dass Gandhi and Khurshid Ben visited him at Barikab in 1931. He was arrested in the last week of December 1931 and was released from the Haripur jail on 13th May 1932 but restricted to the Hazara district under Section 4 of the Emergency Powers Ordinance. On 6th January 1933 he was served with an order under Sections 5(1), (b) and (d) of the North West Frontier Province Tranquility Act, 1932, and was forbidden under Section 5(1) (a) of the same Act to enter the limits ofthe Peshawar district. He is married to a Swiss woman who assists him.