The Hindustan Times reported that in a tribute to the friendship of Mahatma Gandhi and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, a group from Pakistan is expected to join an event marking 75 years of the historic Dandi march.

This March, a re-enactment of Gandhi’s Dandi march on 12th March 1930, to break the salt taxes levied by the British, became an important event in the Independence of South Asia from the British. It will start from Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad and reach Dandi, a coastal town in South Gujarat, taking the 385 km route that Mahatma Gandhi and his followers covered.

"About 75 people from Pakistan's North West Frontier Province will participate in the event next month," Mahatma Gandhi's great grandson Tushar Gandhi said who is organizing this "International Walk for Peace, Justice and Freedom" from March 12 to April 7 under the aegis of Mahatma Gandhi Foundation (MGF).

Tushar Gandhi said the group from Pakistan considers itself the ideological heir of Ghaffar Khan, who was a close associate of Gandhi in the freedom movement and was known as "Frontier Gandhi". He hailed from the NWFP region in what is now Pakistan.

"We have been flooded with inquiries from those, who believe in Gandhian values and wish to participate in the event. We are especially touched by the interest shown by the group from Pakistan," he said.

"This is even more significant when there is a controversy about the
security of Pakistani cricketers in Gujarat," he said.

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