A Pashtun ghazi executed by British at Jalalabad in 1878

 

Execution of a Pashtun ghazi at the Peshawar Gate of Jalalabad city in Afghanistan, 1878. Second Anglo-Afghan War. 

By William Heysham Overend. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 8 February 1879.

On December 23, 1878, a Pashtun ghazi attacked two British soldiers who were shopping in the bazar of Jalalabad city. He managed to severely wounded one of the British soldiers but got overwhelmed and arrested by other British and Indian soldiers nearby. He was not a native of Jalalabad city and had entered the city with intention to dispatch few British soldiers to afterlife before attaining martyrdom. He was executed by firing squad and his dead body was cremated outside the Peshawar gate of Jalalabad city.

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