Imam Shah (a Punjabi convert to Christianity) preaching Christianity to Afghans at Peshawar, 1878

 

"The Reverend Imam Shah Preaching to Afghans at Peshawur". Illustration from the magazine The Graphic, volume XVIII, no 471, December 7, 1878.

Imam Shah was son of a Muslim farmer in the Amritsar district. He was influenced by Daud Singh (a Sikh convert to Christianity) and in 1861 he was baptized by R.Clark at Khairabad (in Nowshera district, KPK) where Daud Singh was at that time ministering to the Christians in the Mazhabi Sikh regiment. He married Daud Singh's eldest daughter. 

From 1872 onwards Imam Shah served as pastor of the Peshawar congregation. In 1879 Imam Shah travelled to Kabul and and ministered to the small Armenian congregation there. 

Imam Shah preached Christianity to Pashtuns for decades but he met with almost no success.