His uncle, Hannan Bacha, was an independence activist against the British colonial rule and was a leader of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement in Mardan.
[3] Bacha and his colleague, Afzal Bangash, were assigned by the party to work for the rights of laborers and peasants and spread awareness among them.
In 1968, Bacha and Bangash again joined hands to found the Mazdoor Kisan Party (MKP) to struggle for the uplift of the oppressed.
For his pro-democracy activities, he was imprisoned by the Pakistani Martial Law Administrator General Zia-ul-Haq and held in a torture cell in Peshawar's Bala-Hissar Fort.
One of his literary works, Bal Mashālūna ("Shining Lamps"), discusses Afghanistan's condition and the core causes of its misery.