Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

1946: Mahsud Maliks walking out of the Jirga as a body, after declaring to Nehru and the Khan brothers (foreground) that they wanted neither British nor Indian domination, but would stay as they were –independent. 

Caption: "On October 16 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, who has claimed that British approach to the N.W tribesmen's problems was entirely wrong, arrived at Peshawar for a goodwill tour of the tribal areas of the North-West Province. His companions were Dr. Khan Sahib, Premier of the N.W. Frontier Province, and his brother Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, leader of the local Congress Party Muslims. Their first engagements were at Razmak and Miranshah, where they met jirgas of the maliks on October 17. At the first (Miranshah), the maliks walked out before hearing Nehru, saying that they were independent and meant to remain so, and that the Muslims were being ill-treated in India and would take revenge. Later, at Razmak, the story was almost the same, and on Nehru's defending Dr.Khan Sahib, described by the tribesmen as an infidel, the maliks again got up and left. On October 20, the party's convoy was ambushed and stoned by tribesmen in the Khyber Pass, and there was some firing both by tribesmen and troops in the convoy."