Sultan Ahmed Khan Tarin

Comrade Sultan Ahmed Khan Tarin or simply Comrade Sultan Ahmed (a.k.a. name sometimes also given as 'Sultan Muhammad Khan') (1901-1970) was an early Communist leader from the North-West Frontier Province of British India.
Early life
Comrade Tarin was born in 1901 to a rural family of the Tarin/Tareen tribe Instead, he was inspired by the Khilafat Movement and sought to go to Kabul, Afghanistan, and try from there to reach Turkey, and strive in the cause of the Islamic Ottoman Caliphate.
Communist connections and activities
In 1920, Tarin and some of his young companions managed to make it to Kabul However, they were mostly released after two years, in 1924, and Tarin returned home to his native village at this time and others, who had served the British Empire; yet he still strove to do his best to bring the Communist message to the masses and in 1947, finally, the independent state of Pakistan emerged on the world map.
After the creation of Pakistan, Comrade Sultan Ahmed Khan Tarin remained for some time under suspicion of the police and intelligence authorities of the fledgling state but by the 1950s, he was not well and was no longer deemed a 'risk'. There is no record of his being in contact with the newly founded Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP, March 1948) and he had no connection with the so-called Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case of 1951. He kept on promoting a communist or socialist political and economic model, at this own level. He died quietly, a neglected figure, in 1970.

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