Afzal Bangash
Mohammad Afzal Khan Bangash (Urdu: محمد افضل خان بنگش; 16 April 1924 – 28 October 1986) was a Pakistani Marxist politician and activist.[citation needed] Afzal Bangash became one of the leading lawyers of NWFP and during Ayub Khan's rule, he was offered the judgeship of the West Pakistan high court.[4] Although Bangash was recognized as principal leader of the MKP, he did not hold any official position until July 1979 when he was elected its president at the party's second congress.Afzal Bangash had numerous health problems, including chronic bronchitis, asthma, kidney failure, stroke, near blindness, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension.During these years he also traveled extensively throughout western Europe, and made trips to the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland, the United States, Cuba, India and Mongolia.Amin wanted Bangash to turn the MKP into a Pakistani party allied with his Khalq faction thereby extending the revolution into Pakistan.After the lifting of martial law and induction of a civilian government in 1985, political activity was revived in Pakistan and in mid-1986 Afzal Bangash returned to his home country.