Abdul Ghaffar

Abdul Ghaffar (Arabic: عبد الغفار) and Abdul Ghafoor (Arabic: عبد الغفور) are two related male Muslim given names, and, in modern usage, surnames. They are built from the Arabic words Abd, al- and either Ghaffar or Ghafoor respectively. Both names mean "servant of the All-forgiving", Al-Ghaffār and Al-Ghafūr being two of the names of God in the Qur'an, which give rise to the Muslim theophoric names.

The letter a of the al- is unstressed, and can be transliterated by almost any vowel, often by u. Alternative transliterations for the last word allow for the initial "gh" to appear as "g", the "ff" to appear as "f" or vice versa, and the "oo" to appear as "u" or "ou", all subject to variable spacing and hyphenation.

The names may refer to:

Males

Politicians

  • Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988), Pakistani political and spiritual leader
  • Abdoel Gaffar Pringgodigdo (1904–1988), Indonesian politician
  • Abdul Ghafoor Khan Durrani (born 1910), Pakistani politician
  • Abdul Ghafoor (politician) (1918-2004), chief minister of Bihar, India
  • Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay

    According to the United States Department of Defense, it held more than two hundred Afghan detainees in Guantanamo prior to May 15, 2006. They had been captured and classified as enemy combatants in warfare following the US and allies invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban and disrupt terrorist networks. Originally the US held such prisoners in sites in Afghanistan, but needed a facility to detain them where they could be interrogated. It opened the Guantanamo Bay detention camp on January 11, 2002 and transported the enemy combatants there.

    The United States Supreme Court's ruled in Rasul v. Bush (2004) that the detainees had the right of habeas corpus to challenge their detention under the US Constitution. That summer, the Department of Defense stopped transferring detained men to Guantanamo. On September 6, 2006 United States President George W. Bush announced the transfer of 14 high value detainees to Guantanamo, including several Afghans. Other Afghans have been transferred to the camp since then.

    Shai Jahn Ghafoor

    Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar (died September 26, 2004) was an Afghan who was held by the United States in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 363.

    Shai Jahn Ghafoor was a citizen of Afghanistan. He was transferred to Afghanistan on March 23, 2003. He died September 25, 2004.

    Maulvi Abdul Ghaffar has been cited as an example of a Guantanamo detainee who tricked their way out of imprisonment, so they could "return to the battlefield." Vice President Dick Cheney cited Ghaffar as a justification for continuing to detain suspects at Guantanamo.

    Ghaffar was captured about two months after the US Invasion of Afghanistan, and according to various accounts, he was only held by the Americans for eight months.

    After his release Ghaffar served as a leader within the Taliban.

    Ghaffar was killed in battle on September 26, 2004, in Uruzgan province. Ghaffar was believed to have been the Taliban commander for Uruzgan.

    References

  • 1 2 Gitmo Detainees Return To Terror, CBS News, October 17, 2004
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    Dawn 19 Mar 2025
    QUETTA ... Director General of Balochistan Levies Force Abdul Ghaffar Magsi has issued a circular for the personnel, announcing strict action against those who exhibit negligence or cowardice instead of defending themselves during terrorist attacks ... .
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    Dawn 19 Mar 2025
    QUETTA ... Director General of Balochistan Levies Force Abdul Ghaffar Magsi has issued a circular for the personnel, announcing strict action against those who exhibit negligence or cowardice instead of defending themselves during terrorist attacks ... .
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    Dawn 18 Mar 2025
    Armed motorcyclists lobbed a hand grenade into the house of SHO City Police Station, Hub, Abdul Qadir Sheikh, and escaped, SSP Khuzdar Javed Zehri told Dawn ... Three of the injured were identified as Abdul Ghaffar, Bushra and Afshan.
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    Dawn 18 Mar 2025
    QUETTA ... The Director General of Balochistan Levies Force, Abdul Ghaffar Magsi, on Monday announced the establishment of a Special Counter-Terrorism Wing within the Levies Force ... Published in Dawn, March 18th, 2025. .
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    Hindustan Times 10 Mar 2025
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    The News International 10 Mar 2025
    AFP/File. ISLAMABAD/LAHORE ... APP adds ... Meanwhile, two members of the National Assembly, Azhar Qayyum Nahra and Abdul Ghaffar Wattoo, and a Member of the Provincial Assembly, Fida Hussain Wattoo, called on Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif ... .
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    The Gulf Time 10 Mar 2025
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    Urdu Point 09 Mar 2025
    <p>LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 9th Mar, 2025) Two members of the National Assembly, Azhar ...
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