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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Khudai Khidmatgar (<a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2017/06/pashto.html" target="_blank">Pashto</a>: خدايي خدمتگار; literally "servants of God") was a <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2018/06/pashtuns.html" target="_blank">Pashtun</a> non-violent movement against the British Empire by the Pashtun people of the North-West Frontier Province (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) of British <br />India (now in Pakistan).<br />Also called Surkh Posh or "Red Shirts", this was originally a social reform organisation focusing on education and the elimination of blood feuds; it was known as the Anjuman-e-Islah-e Afghania (society for reformation of Afghans). The movement was led by <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/abdul-ghafar-khan.html" target="_blank">Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan</a>, known locally as Bacha Khan or Badshah Khan.<br />It gradually became more political as its members were being targeted by the British Raj. By 1929 its leadership was exiled from the province and large numbers were arrested. Seeking allies, leaders approached the Muslim League and Indian National Congress; after being rebuffed by the former in 1929, the movement formally joined the Congress Party. Due to pressure across India, the British government finally released Bacha Khan and lifted restrictions on the movement. As part of the Government of India Act 1935, a limited male franchise was for the first time introduced in the North-West Frontier Province. In the subsequent election, Bacha Khan's brother Dr.Khan Sahib was elected as Chief Minister.<br />The Khudai Khidmatgar movement faced another crackdown for its role in the Quit India Movement after 1940; in that period it started facing increasing opposition from the Muslim League in the province. Its Congress affiliate won the 1946 election again.<br />The Khudai Khidmatgars strongly opposed the All-India Muslim League's demand for the partition of India.When the Indian National Congress declared its acceptance of the partition plan without consulting the Khudai Khidmatgar leaders, Bacha Khan, the leader of the Khudai Khidmatgars, felt very sad and told the Congress "you have thrown us to the wolves."<br />In June 1947, the Khudai Khidmatgars declared the Bannu Resolution, demanding that the Pashtuns be given a choice to have an independent state of <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2017/12/pashtunistan.html" target="_blank">Pashtunistan</a>, composing all Pashtun territories of British India, instead of being made to join Pakistan. However, the British Raj refused to comply with the demand of this resolution.After the partition, the Khudai Khidmatgars faced a backlash from the new Pakistani government. The government of the Khudai Khidmatgars was dismissed and their movement banned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>Conditions prior to the movement</b><br />At the beginning of the 20th century Pashtun society was colonized, stagnant, violent, worn down by feuds, inequalities, factionalism, poor social cooperation, and plain ignorance. Education opportunities were strictly limited. Pashtuns are Muslims; and religious leaders and Mullahs were known to have told parents that if their children went to school, they would go to hell. Khan stated that “the real purpose of this propaganda” was to keep Pashtuns “illiterate and uneducated”, and hence his people “were the most backward in India” with regard to education. He also stated that by the time Islam reached his people centuries earlier, it had lost much of its original spiritual message.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>Origins</b><br />Formed out of the Society for the Reformation of Pashtuns (Anjuman-e-Islah-e-Afghan), it initially targeted social reformation and launched campaigns against prostitution. Bacha Khan as its founder seemed to be influenced by the realisation that whenever British troops were faced with an armed uprising they eventually always overcame the rebellion. The same could not be said when using non violence against the troops.<br />The movement started prior to the Qissa Khwani bazaar massacre, when a demonstration of hundreds of non violent supporters were fired upon by British soldiers in Peshawar. Its low point and eventual dissipation was after Pakistan's independence in 1947, when the Muslim League Chief Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qayyum_Khan">Abdul Qayyum Khan</a> Kashmiri banned the movement and launched a brutal crackdown on its members, which culminated in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babra_massacre">Babra massacre</a>. At its peak, the KK movement consisted of almost 100,000 members.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>Genesis</b><br />Initially the movement focussed on social reform as a means of improving the status of Pashtuns against the British. Ghaffar Khan founded several reform movements prior to the formation of the Khudai Khidmatgar, the Anjumen-e Islah ul-Afghan in 1921, the farmers' organisation Anjuman-e Zamidaran in 1927 and the youth movement Pashtun Jirga in 1927. Trying to further spread awareness on Pashtun issues Abdul Ghaffar Khan founded the magazine Pakhtun in May 1928. Finally in March 1930, almost on the eve of the Qissa Khwani Bazaar Massacre the Khudai Khidmatgar were formed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>"The Red Shirts"</b><br />Khan drew his first recruits from the young men who had graduated from his schools. Trained and uniformed, they served behind their officers and filed out into various villages to seek recruits. They began by wearing a simple white overshirt, but the white was soon dirtied. A couple of men had their shirts dyed at the local tannery, and the brick-red colour proved a breakthrough, it was this distinctive colour that earned the Khudai khidmatgar movement activists the name "the Red shirts" or surkh posh. Other reason for the choice of red color was a symbolic adherence of the anti colonial movements to the revolutionary and socialist discourse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Volunteers who took the oath formed platoons with commanding officers and learned basic army discipline. The volunteers had their own flags: red in the beginning, later tri-colour and bands: bagpipe and drums. The men wore red uniforms and the women black. They had drills, badges, a flag, the entire military hierarchy of rank and even a bagpipe corps.<br />Khan set up a network of committees called jirgas, named and modelled after the traditional tribal councils. Villages were grouped into larger groups, responsible to district-wide committees. The Provincial Jirgah was the ultimate authority.<br />Officers in the ranks were not elected, since Khan wanted to avoid infighting. He appointed a salar-e-azam or commander-in-chief, who in turn appointed officers to serve under him. Other ranks included Jarnails (Generals). The army was completely voluntary; even the officers gave their services free. Women were recruited too, and played an important role in the struggles to come.<br />Volunteers went to the villages and opened schools, helped on work projects, and maintained order at public gatherings. From time to time they drilled in work camps and took long military-style marches into the hills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Under the influence of Abdul Ghaffar Khan the movement advocated non-violent protests and justified their actions through an Islamic context. Khan did not find Islam and non-violence as incompatible. Despite that the movement was intrinsically non-sectarian. In more than one occasion when Hindus and Sikhs were attacked in Peshawar, Khidmatgar members helped protect their lives and property.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">“The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us ‘That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures.’ Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.” –<a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/abdul-ghafar-khan.html" target="_blank"> Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan</a><br /><br />“There is nothing surprising in a Muslim or a Pathan like me subscribing to the creed of nonviolence. It is not a new creed. It was followed fourteen hundred years ago by the Prophet all the time he was in Mecca.” – <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/abdul-ghafar-khan.html">Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>Pledge of the Khudai Khidmatgar</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Example 1</b></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In the name of God who is Present and Evident, I am a Khudai Khitmatgar.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will serve the nation without any self-interest.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will not take revenge (badla) and my actions will not be a burden for anyone.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My actions will be non-violent.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will make every sacrifice required of me to stay on this path.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will serve people without regard to their religion or faith.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I shall use nation-made goods.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I shall not be tempted by any office.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Example 2</b><br />In the presence of God I solemnly affirm that:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I hereby honestly and sincerely offer myself for enrollment as a Khudai Khitmatgar.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I shall be ever ready to sacrifice personal comfort, property, and even life itself to serve the nation and for the attainment of my country's freedom.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I shall not participate in factions, nor pick up a quarrel with or bear enmity towards anybody. I shall always protect the oppressed against the tyranny of the oppressor.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I shall not become member of any other organization, and shall not furnish security or tender apology in the course of a non-violent fight.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I shall always obey every legitimate order of my superior officers.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I shall always live up to the principles of non-violence.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I shall serve all humanity equally. The chief objects of my life shall be attainment of complete independence and religious freedom.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I shall always observe truth and parity in all my actions.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I shall expect no remuneration for my service.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">All my services shall be dedicated to God, they shall not be for attaining rank or for show.</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Oath of the Khudai Khidmatgar</span></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I am a Servant of God, and as God needs no service, serving His creation is serving Him,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I promise to serve humanity in the name of God.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I promise to refrain from violence and from taking revenge.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I promise to forgive those who oppress me or treat me with cruelty.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I promise to refrain from taking part in feuds and quarrels and from creating enmity.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I promise to treat every Pasthun as my brother and friend.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I promise to refrain from antisocial customs and practices.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I promise to live a simple life, to practice virtue, and to refrain from evil.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I promise to practice good manners and good behavior and not to lead a life of idleness.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I promise to devote at least two hours a day to social work.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I put forth my name in honesty and truthfulness to become a true Servant of God.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will sacrifice my wealth, life, and comfort for the liberty of my nation and people.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will never be a party to factions, hatred, or jealousies with my people; and will side with the oppressed against the oppressor.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will not become a member of any other rival organization, nor will I stand in an army.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will faithfully obey all legitimate orders of all my officers all the time.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will live in accordance with the principles of nonviolence.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will serve all God's creatures alike; and my object shall be the attainment of the freedom of my country and my religion.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will always see to it that I do what is right and good.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I will never desire any reward whatever for my service.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">All my efforts shall be to please God, and not for any show or gain.</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Anthem of Khudai Khidmatgar</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b><span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="color: blue;">We are the army of God<br />By death or wealth unmoved,<br />We march, our leader and we, <br />Ready to die!<br /><br />In the name of God, we march<br />And in his name, We die<br />We serve in the name of God<br />God's servant are we!<br /><br />God is our king,<br />And great is he,<br />We serve our Lord,<br />His slaves are we!<br /><br />Our country's cause<br />We serve with our breath,<br />For such an end,<br />Glorious is death<br /><br />We serve and we love<br />Our people and our cause<br />Freedom is our aim,<br />And our lives are its price.<br /><br />We love our country<br />And respect our country<br />Zealously we protect it<br />For the glory of God<br /><br />By cannon or gun undismayed<br />Soldiers and horsemen,<br />None can come between,</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">Our work and our duty.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>British Raj tactics against the Khudai Khidmatgar</b>"The British used to torture us, throw us into ponds in wintertime, shave our beards, but even then Badshah Khan told his followers not to lose patience. He said 'there is an answer to violence, which is more violence. But nothing can conquer nonviolence. You cannot kill it. It keeps standing up. The British sent their horses and cars to run over us, but I took my shawl in my mouth to keep from screaming. We were human beings, but we should not cry or express in any way that we were injured or weak." – Musharraf Din (Baldauf).<br />Another tactic employed against non-violent protesters who were blocking roads was to charge them with cars and horses.<br />In 1930, soldiers of the Garhwal Rifles refused to fire on non-violent protests led by Khudai Khidmatgars in Peshawar. By disobeying direct orders, the regiment sent a clear message to London that loyalty of India's armed forces could not be taken for granted to enact harsh measures. However, by 1931, 5,000 members of the Khudai Khidmatgar and 2,000 members of the Congress Party were arrested. This was followed by the shooting of unarmed protestors in Utmanzai and the Takkar Massacre followed by the Hathikhel massacre.<br />In 1932, the Khudai Khidmatgar movement changed its tactics and involved women in the movement. This unnerved many Indian officers working in the region as in those days of conservative India it was considered a grave insult to attack women, more so in a conservative Pashtun society. However the brutality increased and in one case five police officers in Benares had to be suspended due to "horrific reports about violence used against young female volunteers".<br />The British bombed a village in the Bajaur Valley in March 1932 and arrested Abdul Ghaffar Khan as well as more than 4,000 Khudai Khitmatgars. The British bombardments in the border area continued up till 1936–1937 because, “India is a training field for active military training which can be found nowhere else in the Empire", a British court concluded in 1933.<br />Other alleged tactics ranged from poisoning to the use of castrations against some Khudai Khidmatgar activists.After the anti-war resignation of Dr. Khan's Ministry in 1939 because of the events of World War 2, British tactics towards the movement changed to employ divide-and-rule tactics through the instigation of sectarian and communal tensions over brute force. Governor George Cunningham's policy note of 23 September 1942, called for the government to ‘continuously preach the danger to Muslims of connivance with the revolutionary Hindu body. Most tribesmen seem to respond to this’, while in another paper he commented about the period 1939–1943: ‘Our propaganda since the beginning of the war had been most successful. It had played throughout on the Islamic theme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The movement was facing intense pressure by 1930 and the leadership under Ghaffar Khan was actively seeking political allies in India to help reduce the pressure on it by the British authorities. Previously in December 1928, Barrister Muhammad Jan Abbasi invited Bacha Khan to attend a Khilafat conference. The session ended badly with Maulana Shaukat Ali nearly being attacked by one member from the Punjab.<br />Despite the initial closeness between Ghaffar Khan and Ali, the harshness of their critique of Gandhi contrasted poorly with the patience shown by Gandhi in Ghaffar Khan's eyes. Another attempt was made by senior KK leaders to approach Sir Fazli Hussain a senior Punjabi leader of the Unionist party pleading for assistance against the crackdown which was dismissed.<br />The Congress subsequently offered all possible help to the Pathans in exchange on their part to joining the Congress party for the independence struggle. This offer was put forth in the Frontier province, and was accepted by the Khudai Kidmatgars on August 1931. The move shocked the British authorities who were forced to ease pressure on the KK..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>Conservative backlash</b>The increasingly liberal movement faced an increasing backlash from conservatives because of its support for the Congress party amidst growing support for the Pakistan movement. The decision of <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2018/12/khan-abdul-jabbar-khan.html" target="_blank">Dr. Khan Sahib</a> to support his daughters marriage to a Sikh soldier led to some senior associates of Bacha Khan to leave.<br />Similarly his son <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/ghani-khan-baba.html" target="_blank">Ghani Khan</a>'s criticism of feudal landlords angered many conservative "Khans" and Nawabs, some formerly sympathetic to the movement.<br />This coincided with a determined effort by the British Raj to discredit the movement with the assistance of mullahs and ulema allied with the British.The British Governor, Cunningham, instructed the big khans to meet each mullah on individual basis and tell him to serve the 'cause of Islam' for which he would be duly paid. The Mullahs were told that in case of good progress they would also be considered for government pension. A Cunningham policy note of 23 September 1942 reads: 'Continuously preach the danger to Muslims of connivance with the revolutionary Hindu body. Most tribesmen seem to respond to this', while in another paper he says about the period 1939–43: 'Our propaganda since the beginning of the war had been most successful. It had played throughout on the Islamic theme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>Post Partition</b><br />Pakistan's Independence in August 1947 marked the beginning of the end of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement. While the Congress government remained in power briefly it was eventually dismissed by the Governor under the orders of Pakistan's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah. <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2018/12/khan-abdul-jabbar-khan.html" target="_blank">Dr. Khan Sahib</a> was replaced by former Congressite Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri. He successfully stopped an attempted rapprochement between Ghaffar Khan and Muhammad Ali Jinnah by stopping a planned meeting between the two citing security threats. With that, Jinnah gave Qayyum Khan Kashmiri a free hand in dealing with the Congress and the Khudai Khidmatgars. The crackdown that followed culminated with the Babra Sharif massacre.<br /><br />Despite the provocation and its obvious ambivalence over Pakistan's creation, the Khudai Khidmatgar leaders reconvened at Sardaryab on 3 and 4 September 1947 and passed a resolution that stated, "The Khudai Khidmagars regard Pakistan as their own country and pledge that they shall do their utmost to strengthen and safeguard its interest and make every sacrifice for the cause; The dismissal of Dr. Khan Sahib’s ministry and the setting up of Abdul Qaiyum’s ministry is undemocratic, but as our country is passing through a critical stage, the Khudai Khidmatgars shall take no step which might create difficulties in the way of either the Provincial or Central Government; After the division of the country the Khudai Khidmatgars sever their connection with the All-India Congress organization and, therefore, instead of the Tricolor, adopt the Red Flag as the symbol of their party."<br />You have thrown us (Khudai Khidmatgar) to the wolves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>— Bacha Khan addressing the Mahatma after Partition of India.</b>However, Qayyum Khan Kashmiri and the central government had already decided that there would be no accord with the movement. The Khudai Khidmatgar organisation was declared unlawful in mid-September 1948, mass arrests followed and the centre at Sardaryab (Markaz-e-Khudai Khidmatgaran), built in 1942, was destroyed by the Provincial Government. This crackdown ultimately led to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babra_Sharif_massacre">Babra Sharif massacre</a>.<br />The movement was also hit by defections as party members switched sides out of fear or for benefit. Those members that wished to survive politically rallied behind a former ally, turned opponent of Qayyum Khan Kashmiri, the Pir of Manki Sharif. The Pir created a breakaway Muslim League, however, it proved no match for Qayyum who engineered his re-election in 1951.<br />The movement lingered on till 1955, when it was again banned by the central government because of Ghaffar Khan's opposition to the One Unit. An aborted attempt was made to bring Ghaffar Khan into the government as a minister as well as turning the KK movement into a national organization, but Ghaffar Khan turned down the offer.<br />Although the ban on the movement was lifted in 1972, the Khudai Khidmatgar movement had been broken.In recent years, On 20 January, 2011, young Gandhian activist Faisal Khan revived Khudai Khidmatgar at a function in Birla House, New Delhi. Khudai Khidmatgars has volunteers in 14 states and, according to Faisal they number about 10,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>Criticisms</b>The Khudai Khidmatgar movement was a success in the terms of its opposition to British rule. However, the social effects of the movement have not survived. While the Ghaffar Khan family maintains a hold over the political philosophy of the movement, its history has largely been wiped out from official memory in Pakistan. The movement has also been criticized for its opposition to partition, and by that virtue the creation of Pakistan.<br />As a result, it has been seen as a secessionist movement in Pakistan, and in the 1950s and 1960s it was also perceived as pro communist, an argument that was used by conservative elements to discredit it as anti-Islam. The movement's claim to total non-violence seems flawed as well; some critics argue that while the movement proved a success against the British, it like other non-violent movements would not have proved a success against another Imperial power. This is supposedly proved by its failure to pose a challenge to the Pakistani government amidst a crackdown that was far more brutal than any done by the British.Others have also suggested that the Khudai Khidmatgar movement was not in fact as non-violent as its supporters would argue. Writers like Schofiled and Bannerjee have documented cases of attacks on British personnel and soldiers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">14 October 1955 – 27 August 1957</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1883</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Utmanzai, Charsadda, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">British India</span>, now <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Charsadda District</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Died</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9 May 1958 (aged 75)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan </b>(<a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2017/06/pashto.html" target="_blank">Pashto</a>: خان عبدالجبار خان) (born 1883, Utmanzai, Charsadda – 9 May 1958, Lahore), popularly known as Dr. Khan Sahib (ډاکټر خان صاحب), was a pioneer in the Indian Independence Movement and a Pakistani politician.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He was born in the village of Utmanzai, Charsadda, in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of British India (now in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan). His father, Bahram Khan was a local landlord. He was eight years older than his brother, <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/abdul-ghafar-khan.html" target="_blank">Bacha Khan</a> (Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After matriculating from the Edwards Mission High School in Peshawar, Khan Sahib studied at Grant Medical College, Bombay. He subsequently completed his training from St Thomas' Hospital in London. During the First world war, he served in France. During his stay in France, he met a Scottish girl Mary. They fell in love and soon they got married, though his younger brother <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/abdul-ghafar-khan.html" target="_blank">Bacha Khan</a> was against this marriage. Mary had a daughter from her earlier relationship and her name was Meriam. After the war, he joined the Indian Medical Service and was posted in Mardan with the Guides regiment. He resigned his commission in 1921, after refusing to be posted in Waziristan, where the British Indian Armywas launching operations against his fellow <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2018/09/pashtun-tribes.html" target="_blank">Pashtun tribes </a>(1919–20).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In 1935, Khan Sahib was elected alongside Peer Shahenshah of Jungle Khel Kohat as representatives of the North-West Frontier Province to the Central Legislative Assembly in New Delhi.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">With the grant of limited self-government and announcement of Indian provincial elections, 1937, Dr. Khan Sahib led his party to a comprehensive victory. The Frontier National Congress, an affiliate of the Indian National Congress emerged as the single largest party in the Provincial Assembly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">At the time of independence of Pakistan in 1947, he was the chief executive of the province appointed in British India. Later he was jailed by Abdul Qayyum KhanKashmiri's government. After Abdul Qayyum Khan Kashmiri's appointment to the Central government and the personal efforts of the Chief Minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa at the time, Sardar Bahadur Khan, he along with his brother and many other activists were released.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He joined the Central Cabinet of Muhammad Ali Bogra as Minister for Communications in 1954. This decision to join the government led to his split with his brother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In October 1955, he became the first Chief Minister of West Pakistan following the consolidation of the provinces and princely states under the One Unit scheme. After differences with the ruling Muslim League over the issue of Joint versus Separate Electorates, he created the Republican Party with the help of then Governor-General of Pakistan Iskander Mirza.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He resigned in March 1957 after the provincial budget was rejected by the assembly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In June, he was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan representing the constituency of Quetta, the former capital of Balochistan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">He was assassinated by Atta Mohammad at approximately 8:30 am on 9 May 1958, according to some sources on the orders of Allama Mashraqi, leader of the Khaksars.In a book entitled “Allama Mashriqi Narrowly Escapes the Gallows: Court Proceedings of an Unpardonable Crime Against the Man Who Led the Freedom of the Indian Subcontinent”, scholar and historian Nasim Yousaf, Mashriqi’s grandson, provides a day-by-day account of the court proceedings. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">This tragic incident occurred while Dr. Khan Sahib was sitting in the garden of his son Sadullah Khan's house at 16 Aikman Road, GOR, Lahore. He was waiting for Colonel Syed Abid Hussein of Jhang to accompany him to a meeting organised in connection with the scheduled February 1959 General Elections. The assailant was a "Patwari" (Land Revenue Clerk) from Mianwali who had been dismissed from service two years previously. Despite his appeal in court, the assailant had not been reinstated to his position as 'Patwari'.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The body of Dr. Khan Sahib was taken to his village Utmanzai, Charsadda about 30 miles from Peshawar, where he was laid to rest by side of his European wife Mary Khan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Speaking of his passing, Pakistani President Iskander Mirza said, about him that he was "the greatest Pathan of his times, a great leader and a gallant gentleman whose life-long fight in the cause of freedom, his sufferings and sacrifices for the sake of his convictions and his passion to do good to the common man were the attributes of a really great man.<br /><br /></span></div>
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Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-16389891978741856682018-11-22T12:05:00.000+05:002018-11-22T12:05:09.612+05:00Mahmud Tarzi<table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>In office</b></span><br />1924–1927</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Monarch</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Amanullah Khan</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Preceded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sardar Shir Ahmad</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Succeeded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ghulam Siddiq Khan Charkhi (acting)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Monarch</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Habibullah Khan</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Preceded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sardar Mohammed Aziz Khan</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Succeeded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mohammad Wali Khan Darwazi</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">August 23, 1865<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ghazni</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Afghanistan</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Died</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">November 22, 1933 (aged 68)<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Istanbul</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Turkey</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mahmud Beg Tarzi</b> (<a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2017/06/pashto.html" target="_blank">Pashto</a>: محمود طرزۍ, Dari Persian: محمود بیگ طرزی; August 23, 1865 – November 22, 1933) was a politician and one of Afghanistan's greatest intellectuals. He is known as the father of Afghan journalism. As a prominent modern thinker, he became a key figure in the history of Afghanistan, following the lead of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey by working for modernization and secularization, and strongly opposing religious extremism and obscurantism. Tarzi emulated the Young Turks coalition.Perhaps to the point of the emulation <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2017/12/pashtunistan.html" target="_blank">Pashtun nationalism</a>.<br /><br /><b>Early years</b></span><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />Tarzi was born on 23 August 1865 in Ghazni, Afghanistan. An ethnic Pashtun, his father was Sardar Ghulam Muhammad Tarzi, leader of the Mohammadzai royal house of Kandahar and a well-known poet. His mother belonged to Popalzaitribe.In 1881, shortly after Emir Abdur Rahman Khan came to power. Mahmud's father and the rest of the Tarzi family were expelled from Afghanistan. They first travelled to Karachi, Sindh, where they lived from January 1882 to March 1885. They then moved to the Ottoman Empire.<br /><br />Mahmud began to explore the Middle East, he made pilgrimage to Mecca, visited Paris, and toured the eastern Mediterranean. He also encountered Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani in Constantinople.On a second trip to Damascus, Syria, in 1891, Tarzi married the daughter of Sheikh Saleh Al-Mossadiah, a muezzin of the Umayyad mosque. She became his second wife, the first was an Afghan who had died in Damascus. Tarzi stayed in Turkey until the age of 35, where he became fluent in a number of languages, including his native tongue <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2017/06/pashto.html" target="_blank">Pashto </a>as well as Dari, Turkish, French, Arabic, and Urdu.</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A year after Emir Abdur Rahman Khan's death in 1901, Habibullah Khan invited the Tarzi family back to Afghanistan. Mahmud Tarzi was given a post in the government. There he began to introduce Western ideas in Afghanistan. If there is a single person responsible for the modernization of Afghanistan in the first two decades of the twentieth century it was Tarzi. Tarzi's daughter, Soraya Tarzi, married King Amanullah Khan and become Queen of Afghanistan. Mahmud Tarzi took up a critical role in the history of Afghanistan, from famed poet to progressive leader.<br /><b>Journalism and poetry</b><br />One of Tarzi's earliest works was known as the Account of a Journey (Sayahat-Namah-e Manzum), which was published in Lahore, British India (now Pakistan). However, Tarzi's most influential work – and the foundation of journalism in Afghanistan – was his publishing of Seraj-al-Akhbar. This newspaper was published bi-weekly from October 1911 to January 1919. It played an important role in the development of an Afghan modernist movement, serving as a forum for a small, enlightened group of young Afghans, who provided the ethical justification and basic tenets of Afghan nationalism and modernism. Tarzi also published Seraj-al-Atfal (Children's Lamp), the first Afghan publication aimed at a juvenile audience<br /><br />Tarzi was the first who introduced the novel in Afghanistan and translated many English and French novels to Dari and <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2017/06/pashto.html" target="_blank">Pashto</a>. He also contributed in editing, translations, and modernization of the Afghan press. He translated into Dari and <a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2017/06/pashto.html" target="_blank">Pashto </a>many major works of European authors, such as Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, International Law (from Turkish), and the History of the Russo-Japanese War. When he lived in Turkey and Syria, he immersed himself in reading and research, using Western literary and scientific sources. In Damascus, Tarzi wrote The Garden of Learning, containing choice articles about literary, artistic, travel and scientific matters. Another book entitled The Garden of Knowledge (later published in Kabul), concludes with an article "My beloved country, Afghanistan", in which he tells his Afghan countrymen how much he longs for his native land and recalls with nostalgia the virtues of its climate, mountains and deserts. In 1914, his novel Travel Across Three Continents in Twenty-Nine Days published. In the preface, he makes an apt comment about travel and history...</span></div>
Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-72052986876373144352018-11-22T11:34:00.006+05:002018-11-22T11:37:54.811+05:00Mahmud Hotak<div class="noprint" id="siteSub" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12.88px;">
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1697</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Died</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">April 22, 1725 (age 28 or 29)<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Isfahan</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hotak Empire</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Shāh Mahmūd Hotak</b>, (Pashto: شاه محمود هوتک), also known as Shāh Mahmūd Ghiljī (Pashto: شاه محمود غلجي) (lived 1697 – April 22, 1725), was an Afghan ruler of the Hotak dynasty who overthrew the heavily declined Safavid dynasty to briefly become the king of Persia from 1722 until his death in 1725.<br />He was the eldest son of Mirwais Hotak, the chief of the Ghilji Pashtun tribe of Afghanistan, who had made the Kandahar region independent from Persian rule in 1709. When Mirwais died in 1715, he was succeeded by his brother, Abdul Aziz, but the Ghilji Afghans persuaded Mahmud to seize power for himself and in 1717 he overthrew and killed his uncle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1720, Mahmud and the Ghiljis defeated the rival ethnic Afghan tribe of the Abdalis. However, Mahmud had designs on the Persian empire itself. He had already launched an expedition against Kerman in 1719 and in 1721 he besieged the city again. Failing in this attempt and in another siege on Yazd, in early 1722, Mahmud turned his attention to the shah's capital Isfahan, after first defeating the Persians at the Battle of Gulnabad. Rather than biding his time within the city and resisting a siege in which the small Afghan army was unlikely to succeed, Sultan Husayn marched out to meet Mahmud's force at Golnabad. Here, on March 8, the Persian royal army was thoroughly routed and fled back to Isfahan in disarray. The shah was urged to escape to the provinces to raise more troops but he decided to remain in the capital which was now encircled by the Afghans. Mahmud's siege of Isfahan lasted from March to October, 1722. Lacking artillery, he was forced to resort to a long blockade in the hope of starving the Persians into submission. Sultan Husayn's command during the siege displayed his customary lack of decisiveness and the loyalty of his provincial governors wavered in the face of such incompetence. Starvation and disease finally forced Isfahan into submission (it is estimated that 80,000 of its inhabitants died during the siege). On October 23, Sultan Husayn abdicated and acknowledged Mahmud as the new shah of Persia.</span><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Mahmud's reign as shah</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">His failure to impose his rule across Persia made Mahmud depressed and suspicious. He was also concerned about the loyalty of his own men, since many Afghans preferred his cousin Ashraf Khan. In February 1725, believing a rumour that one of Sultan Husayn's sons, Safi Mirza, had escaped, Mahmud ordered the execution of all the other Safavid princes who were in his hands, with the exception of Sultan Husayn himself. When Sultan Husayn tried to stop the massacre, he was wounded, but his action led to Mahmud sparing the lives of two of his young children.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mahmud began to succumb to insanity as well as physical deterioration. On April 22, 1725, a group of Afghan officers freed Ashraf Khan from the prison where he had been confined by Mahmud and launched a palace revolution which placed Ashraf on the throne. Mahmud died three days later, either from his illness – at it was claimed at the time – or murder by suffocation.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">...Thereafter his disorder rapidly increased, until he himself was murdered on April 22 by his cousin Ashraf, who was thereupon proclaimed king. Mír Maḥmúd was at the time of his death only twenty-seven years of age, and is described as "middle-sized and clumsy; his neck was so short that his head seemed to grow to his shoulders; he had a broad face and flat nose, and his beard was thin and of a red colour; his looks were wild and his countenance austere and disagreeable; his eyes, which were blue and a little squinting, were generally downcast, like a man absorbed in deep thought."</span></span><br />
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Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-89922820997214091602018-11-22T11:12:00.000+05:002018-11-22T11:13:15.459+05:00Khawas Khan Marwat<div class="mw-body-content" id="bodyContent" style="line-height: 1.6; position: relative; z-index: 0;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Khawas Khan Marwat was one of the best generals of </span>Sher Shah Suri<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">, having played a major role in defeating the Mughal Emperor </span>Humayun<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> in 1539 at the </span>Battle of Chausa<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">. He belonged to the Bahram branch of the </span>Marwat<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> tribe.He was originally a poor fox hunter, but Sher Shah spotted his potential and elevated him to the position of a general. According to historical accounts he was born of a slave woman to a household of Lohani Marwats.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br />After victory in the Battle of Sammel, Khawas Khan Marwat took possession of Jodhpur and occupied the territory of Marwar from Ajmer to Mount Abu in 1544. When Hamayun fled from Agra towards Multan, Sher Shah dispatched Khawas Khan and the greater part of his army to pursue him and drive him beyond the borders of Hindustan. The Mughal division which had quit Hamayun and was marching toward Kabul, encountered Khawas Khan and not being strong enough, fled leaving their drums and standards behind.He then rejoined Sher Shah. Sher Shah built Rohtas Fort in Jehlum to keep down Gakkars and to block Emperor Humayun's return to India, and appointed Khawas Khan the administrative head of the fort.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Revolt against Islam Shah and Death</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Khawas Khan along with eminent nobles like Qutb Khan Naib, Isa Khan Niazi and Jal Khan Julwani stood against Islam Shah Suri in support of Adil Khan. Adil Khan revolted and, accompanied by Khawas Khan, proceeded to attack Agra, but he was defeated in a battle outside the town. He fled to Panna and was not heard of again. Khawas Khan also fled towards Sarhind.<br />Islam Shah tried to kill all those nobles who were supposed to be in sympathy with Adil Khan. Haibat Khan Niazi revolted against the Sultan. Khawas Khan also came and joined him. Islam Shah went himself to suppress this revolt. He met the rebels near Ambala (1547 A.D.). Khawas left Haibat Khan on the eve of the battle because he wanted to fight in the name of Adil Khan while Haibat Khan was fired with the ambition to be crowned. The Niazis were defeated and Islam Shah pursued them up to the bank of the Jhelum River. He left an army to suppress the fugitives and himself returned to Agra. Subsequently, Khawas Khan who had taken refuge in Kumaun was lured into a trap and killed by Islam Shah. (A.D. 1552)</span></span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>In office</b></span><br />2 December 1988 – 6 August 1990</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">Preceded by</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Fakhar Imam</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>In office</b></span><br />14 April 1972 – 17 August 1975</td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Born</th><td style="vertical-align: top;">11 January 1917<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Utmanzai</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">British Raj</span><br /><small style="font-size: 10.472px;">(now <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span>)</small></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Died</th><td style="vertical-align: top;">26 January 2006 (aged 89)<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Peshawar</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</span>, Pakistan</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Khan Abdul Wali Khan</b> (Pashto: خان عبدالولي خان, Urdu: خان عبدالولی خان, born: 11 January 1917 – 26 January 2006) was a British Indian and later Pakistani secular democratic socialist and Pashtun leader, and served as president of National Awami Party. Son of the prominent Pashtun nationalist leader Bacha Khan, Wali Khan was an activist and a writer against the British Raj like his father.<br />His early years were marked by his involvement in his father's non-violent resistance movement, the "red shirts" against the British Raj. He narrowly escaped an assassination in his early years and was later sent to school at Colonel Brown Cambridge School, Dehra Dun. In his late teens, he became active in the Indian National Congress. After the formation of Pakistan in 1947, Wali Khan became a controversial figure in Pakistani politics during his political career because of his association to the Congress which opposed the creation of Pakistan.<br />A respected politician in his later years, he contributed to Pakistan's third constitution and led protests for the restoration of democracy in the 1960s and 1980s.In the 1970s, he also served as the parliamentary leader of opposition in Pakistan's first directly elected parliament.</span></div>
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Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-76021025389198475862018-11-11T13:52:00.002+05:002018-11-11T13:52:15.276+05:00Karzai<div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Karzai (Pashto: کرزی, translit. Karzay; pronounced [ˈkɑrzɑːj]) is an Afghan surname. Karzai means the person is from Karz and is assembled through the common construction of adding an Arabic letter "Ya" to the proper noun Karz which is a village. Karzai is pronounced Karzay because of the dialect of Kandahar, while others may pronounce it as Karzi. . Notable people with the surname include:</span><br />
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<li>Abdul Ahad Karzai, politician</li>
<li>Ahmed Wali Karzai, politician</li>
<li>Azizullah Karzai, diplomat</li>
<li>Habibullah Karzai, tribal leader</li>
<li>Hafizullah Karzai, uncle of Hamid Karzai</li>
<li>Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan</li>
<li>Hashmat Karzai, cousin of President Hamid Karzai, businessman in security and construction, killed by a suicide bomber in July 2014.</li>
<li>Jamil Karzai, politician</li>
<li>Mahmood Karzai, businessman, elder brother of President Hamid Karzai.</li>
<li>Qayum Karzai, politician, elder brother of President Hamid Karzai.</li>
<li>Yar Mohammed (Karzai), NATO victim</li>
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</span>Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-55122098877006619202018-11-11T13:46:00.003+05:002018-11-11T13:46:54.154+05:00Karnal Sher Khan<table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 25.5em;"><tbody>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: #c3d6ef; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="honorific-prefix" style="font-size: 11.858px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Captain</span></span><br /><span class="fn">Sher Khan</span><br /><span class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 11.858px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">NH</span></span></span></th></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1 January 1970<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Swabi</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Died</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5 July 1999 (aged 29)<br />near <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Tiger Hill</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Dras</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jammu and Kashmir</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">India</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Kargil_from_Surprise_to_Victory_1-0" style="font-size: 9.856px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">[1]</span></sup></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Allegiance</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" class="thumbborder" data-file-height="600" data-file-width="900" height="15" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" width="23" /> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Service/<wbr style="display: inline-block;"></wbr>branch</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" class="thumbborder" data-file-height="216" data-file-width="324" height="15" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_the_Pakistani_Army.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Pakistani_Army.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_the_Pakistani_Army.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Pakistani_Army.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_the_Pakistani_Army.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Pakistani_Army.svg.png 2x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" width="23" /> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan Army</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Years of service</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1994–1999</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rank</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Captain</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Unit</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">27 Sind Regiment</span><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">12 Northern Light Infantry</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Battles/wars</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Kargil War</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Awards</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Nishan-e-Haider</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Karnal Sher Khan (1970–1999)[2] (Urdu: کرنل شیر خان) was a Pakistan Army officer. He was one of only ten recipients of the Nishan-e-Haider. He was a captain in the 27th Sindh Regiment of the Pakistan Army. He was posted to 12th NLI Regiment during the Kargil Conflict. He was killed in action near Tiger Hill, Kargil. His name is the localised form of the rank Colonel.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Khan was born in Naway Kiley (Shewa Adda), a village in Swabi District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.<br />Khan was the youngest of two brothers and two sisters. His mother died in 1978 when he was eight years old. He was brought up by his paternal aunts. His family is religious and claim that Sher was "an embodiment of piety and Islamic teaching".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>Career</b><br />After completing his intermediate schooling at the Government College Swabi, Khan joined the Pakistan Air Force as an airman.[citation needed] On completion of his training, he was appointed electric fitter (aeronautical) at Primary Flying Training Wing Risalpur.<br />He twice applied for commission in the Pakistan Army. He succeeded the second time.[citation needed] He joined the Pakistan Military Academy, Kakul, in November 1992 and graduated in the 90th Long Course in 1994.<br />His first posting was at Okara in 27th Sindh Regiment. In January 1998 he volunteered to serve at the LoC in Kashmir. He was posted in 12 NLI from 27 Sind Regiment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b>Death</b><br />During the Kargil War, he was deployed to Gultary region in Kargil. He established five strategic posts at height of 17,000 feet and successfully defended his posts against Indian assaults multiple times. On 5 July 1999, the Indian army surrounded his posts with two battalions. With heavy mortar fire, the Indian Army captured one of his posts. Khan personally lead the counter-attack but was hit by machine gun fire and was killed.</span><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />Legacy<br /><span style="background-color: white; font-weight: normal;">Karnel Sher Khan's home village of Naway Kiley ("New Village") is now named after him as Karnal Sher Kally ("Village of Karnal Sher Khan").</span></span></h2>
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Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-81728243513252087772018-11-11T13:08:00.002+05:002018-11-11T13:08:15.546+05:00Javed Burki<div class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" role="note" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; margin-bottom: 0.5em; padding-left: 1.6em;">
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background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Meerut</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">United Provinces</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">British India</span><br />(now in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Uttar Pradesh</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">India</span>)</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Batting</span></th><td class="category" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Right-hand</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">batsman</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Relations</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Majid Khan</span> (cousin)<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Imran Khan</span> (cousin)<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Shahid Javed Burki</span> (cousin)<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ahmed Raza</span> (uncle)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Test debut (cap <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">36</span>)</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2 December 1960 v <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">India</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last Test</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">8 November 1969 v <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">New Zealand</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Matches</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">25</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">177</span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Runs scored</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1341</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9421</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">100s/50s</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3/4</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">22/31</span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Top score</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">140</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">227</span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Balls</span> bowled</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">42</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3394</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Bowling average</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">–</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">44.57</span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5 wickets in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">innings</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">–</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">–</span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10 wickets in match</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">–</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">–</span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Best bowling</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">–</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4/13</span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Catches/<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">stumpings</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">7/–</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">101/–</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Javed Burki (</span><span style="font-size: large;">Urdu</span><span style="font-size: large;">: جاوید برکی) (born 8 May 1938) is a Pakistani former </span><span style="font-size: large;">cricketer</span><span style="font-size: large;"> who played in 25 </span><span style="font-size: large;">Tests</span><span style="font-size: large;"> from 1960 to 1969 to eventually become an ICC match referee. Burki received his early education from Saint Mary's Academy at Rawalpindi. He also played cricket while studying at </span><span style="font-size: large;">Oxford University</span><span style="font-size: large;"> (1958–1960).</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Javed Burki is the son of General Wajid Ali Khan Burki (1900–1988). General Burki's sister-in-law, Shaukat Khanum (Burki), was the mother of Imran Khan, the current Prime Ministers of Pakistan. Another of Burki's cousins, Majid Khan, also served as Pakistan's cricket captain.<br />Burki's brothers include Dr. Nausherwan Khan Burki, a founding member of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, and Jamshed Burki, a career civil servant Interior Secretary.<br />After retiring from cricket, Burki joined the Pakistan Civil Service as part of the District Management Malakand Division – NWFP eventually working his way up to become Secretary to Government of Pakistan's Ministry of Commerce and Secretary Ministry of Water and Power (WAPDA). Burki also served as CEO of Pakistan Automobile Corporation (PACO) under whose leadership Pakistan's first locally assembled car company, the Pak Suzuki MotorCompany, was launched.<br />During the dictatorship of General Pervez Musharraf Burki objected to the questionable military vehicle procurement process by senior serving members of Pakistan's Army. To silence Burki he was arrested on 19 December 2002 from his residence in Islamabad and taken to Karachi Jail.</span></span>Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-44541751138877740772018-11-11T13:02:00.004+05:002018-11-11T13:02:53.608+05:00Josh Malihabadi<table class="infobox biography vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span class="nickname">Shabbir Hasan Khan</span><br />5 December 1898<br /><span class="birthplace"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Malihabad</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">North-Western Provinces</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">British India</span></span></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Died</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>22 February 1982 (aged 83)<br /><span class="deathplace"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Islamabad</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span></span></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nationality</span></th><td class="category" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Indian</span> (till 1958)<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistani</span></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Other names</span></th><td class="nickname" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Shayar-e-Inquilab</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Education</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>St. Peter's College<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Visva-Bharati University</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Movement</span></th><td class="category" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Progressive Writers' Movement</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Awards</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Padma Bhushan</span>, 1954<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hilal-e-Imtiaz</span>, 2013</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Josh Malihabadi (Urdu: جوش ملیح آبادی) (born as Shabbir Hasan Khan; شبیر حسن خان) (5 December 1894 – 22 February 1982) popularly known as Shayar-e-Inquilab(poet of revolution) is regarded as one of the finest Urdu poets of the era of British India. He is considered top in the list of Urdu literature who uses thousands of high sounding rich words in his poetry.He was a master in Urdu Language.Josh always challenged the established order and stood for liberal values.Josh was loud, brave who never compromised on principles.He wrote over 100,000 beautiful couplets and more than 1,000 rubaiyat in his lifetime. His autobiography “Yaadon ki Barat” is considered one of the best so far in Urdu as it is written in frank and candid manner. The first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru held him in high esteem and hardly missed a chance to attend the mushaira at Lala Kishan Lal Kalra’s United Coffee House where Josh used to be the star attraction. He was an Indian citizen until 1958, when he emigrated to Pakistan and became a pakistani citizen.</b></span>Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-35868424439682823322018-11-11T12:59:00.003+05:002018-11-11T13:00:45.193+05:00Jamal Shah<table class="infobox biography vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1 March 1956<br /><span class="birthplace"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Quetta</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span></span></span></b></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Occupation</span></th><td class="role" style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">TV</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Film Actor</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">singer</span> & <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">directer</span></span></b></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Spouse(s)</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Amna Shah</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Jamal Shah (Pashto: جمال شاہ) is a Pakistani actor, director, painter,social worker,script writer,singer,song writer. He was born into a Pashtun Syed family in 1956 in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. In 1992 Jamal made his acting debut in K2, directed by Franc Roddam and since than in many other movies and dramas.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>In 1984 he established the Fine Arts Department at the University of Balochistan and headed the department for three years. In 1985 he formed the Artists Association of Balochistan and became the first Chairman of Artist Association of Pakistan.<br />Jamal Shah obtained a Master's in English literature from Balochistan University, Quetta, Balochistan in 1978 and in 1983 an NDA, National College of Arts, Lahore. He later obtained a Masters in Fine Arts from the Slade School of Art in London.<br />He is currently[when?] the director of HunerKada art academy in Islamabad which he founded in 1992 and Telenor Brand Ambassador doing Television Productions (Hunerkada Productions) his latest upcoming Drama is "Girdaab".<br />Being an actor, he performed in many TV serials as well as a renowned mini series titled Traffik produced by Britain's Channel 4 about illegal drugs and the role of Pakistan, Germany and Britain in its production, transportation and usage. Traffik was nominated for six BAFTA Awards, winning three. It also won an International Emmy Award for best drama.<br />In 2005 Jamal Shah was responsible for the Pavilion in the Pakistan section of the Expo 2005, the world exposition held in Aichi Japan.<br />In 2007 he became the Executive Director of Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA).</b></span></div>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1992</span></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">K2</span></b></span></i></td><td class="table-yes" rowspan="4" style="background: rgb(153, 255, 153); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yes</span></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Malik</span></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">debut acting</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2010</span></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chunri</span></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Babar Ali,</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Syed Mohsin Gillani,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Farah Shah,</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Asma Abbas</span></b></div>
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<tr><td style="background: blue; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 259.2px;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2016</span></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Saya-e-Dewar Bhi Nahi</span></b></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Ahsan Khan</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Naveen Waqar</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Irfan Khoosat</span>, Sonia Khan</span></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hum TV</span></b></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="background: blue; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; width: 259.2px;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1993</span></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Baarish Kay Baad</span></b></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jamal Shah Huma Mir Mishi Khan</span></b></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">PTV</span></b></span></td></tr>
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Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-86990977166850205422018-11-11T12:51:00.001+05:002018-11-11T12:51:14.364+05:00Isa Khan Niazi<table class="infobox biography vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="nickname">niya zai</span><br /><span class="birthplace">Delhi</span></span></b></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Died</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">16th Century<br /><span class="deathplace">Delhi</span></span></b></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nationality</span></th><td class="category" style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pashtun</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Occupation</span></th><td class="role" style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Afghan Noble</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Isa Khan Niazi was born in 1453 and his last brother was born in 1478. He died in Delhi in 1548 at the age of 95. The time of 1451 – 1525 was the golden period for these khans. It was the time when Lodhis completely dominated the subcontinent (Hindustan). Isa Khan Niazi was a prominent member among the ruling family. He was in the same tribal unit of nobles as Ibrahim Lodhi, Sher Shah Suri. Most of these families were attached with the Delhi sultanate. There, a contention arose between Isa Khan Niazi and Sher Shah Suri which ended in mutinyIsa Khan Niazi (Pashto: عیسی خان نيازي) was a Pashtun noble in the courts of Sher Shah Suri and his son Islam Shah Suri, of the Sur dynasty, who fought the Mughal Empire.</b></span><div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Isa Khan Niyazi's tomb in the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Humayun's Tomb</span> complex.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Isa Khan's mosque, across his tomb in the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Humayun's Tomb</span> complex.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Isa Khan's tomb was built during his lifetime (ca 1547-48 AD). It is situated near the site of the Mughal EmperorHumayun's Tomb complex in Delhi which was built later (between 1562-1571 AD). This octagonal tomb has distinct ornamentation in the form of canopies, glazed tiles and lattice screens, and a deep veranda surrounding it, which is supported by pillars. It stands to the south of the Bu Halima garden at the entrance of the complex. An inscription on a red sandstone slab indicates that the tomb is that of Masnad Ali Isa Khan, son of Umar Khan, the Chief chamberlain, and was built during the reign of Islam Shah Suri, son of Sher Shah, in 1547-48 A.D. On 5 August 2011, restoration work on this tomb led to the discovery of India's oldest sunken garden. Isa Khan’s garden tomb is considered the earliest example of an Indian sunken garden attached to a tomb. This concept was later developed at Akbar’s Tomb and at the Taj Mahal.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><u>Musjid of Isa Khan</u></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Interiors of the Mosque of Isa Khan.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>At the edge of the complex, across from the tomb, lies a mosque with noticeable mihrabs. It is known as Isa Khan's Mosque. It was built at the same time as the tomb. Many of the architectural details present in these structures (such as the tomb being placed in a walled garden enclosure) can be seen evolved to a grander scale in the main Humayun's tomb.</b></span></div>
Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-74842535375149969652018-11-11T12:44:00.006+05:002018-11-11T12:44:56.047+05:00Irfan Pathan<table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; float: right; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 25em;"><caption class="fn" style="font-size: 15.4px; padding: 0.2em;"><span class="fn"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Irfan Pathan</b></span></span></caption><tbody>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><img alt="Irfan Pathan at the Domestic Airport.jpg" data-file-height="313" data-file-width="235" height="313" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Irfan_Pathan_at_the_Domestic_Airport.jpg" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="235" /></b></span><div style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Irfan Pathan</b></span></div>
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<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Personal information</span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Full name</span></th><td class="nickname" style="vertical-align: top;"><span class="fn"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Irfan Khan Pathan</b></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>27 October 1984<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 34)</span><br /><span class="birthplace"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Vadodara</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Gujarat</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">India</span></span></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nickname</span></th><td class="nickname" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Guddu,Irfan</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Height</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Batting</span></th><td class="category" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Left-hand bat</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bowling</span></th><td class="category" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Left arm <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">medium fast</span></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Role</span></th><td class="role" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>All-rounder</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Relations</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Yusuf Pathan</span>(brother)</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">International information</span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">National side</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="plainlist">
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">India</span> (2002-2012)</b></span></li>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Test debut (cap <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">248</span>)</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>12 December 2003 v <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Australia</span></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last Test</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>5 April 2008 v <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">South Africa</span></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ODI</span> debut (cap <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">153</span>)</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>9 January 2004 v <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Australia</span></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last ODI</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>4 August 2012 v <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sri Lanka</span></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">ODI shirt no.</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>56</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">T20I debut (cap <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">7</span>)</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>1 December 2006 v <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">South Africa</span></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last T20I</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>2 October 2012 v <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">South Africa</span></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">T20I shirt no.</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>56</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Domestic team information</span></th></tr>
<tr style="line-height: 9pt;"><th scope="col" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Years</span></th><th scope="col" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Team</span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 3em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2000–2017</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Baroda</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 3em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2005</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Middlesex</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 3em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2008–2010</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Kings XI Punjab</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 3em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2011–2013</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Delhi Daredevils</span> <i>(squad no. 56)</i></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 3em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2014</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sunrisers Hyderabad</span><i>(squad no. 56)</i></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 3em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2015</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Chennai Super Kings</span><i>(squad no. 56)</i></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 3em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2016</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rising Pune Supergiants</span><i>(squad no. 28)</i></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 3em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2017</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Gujarat Lions</span> <i>(squad no. 56)</i></b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 3em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2018-present</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Jammu & Kashmir</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: lightsteelblue; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Career statistics</span></th></tr>
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<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Competition</span></th><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Test</span></th><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">ODI</span></th><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">FC</span></th><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">T20Is</span></th></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Matches</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>29</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>120</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>94</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>24</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Runs scored</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>1,105</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>1,544</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>3,303</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>172</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Batting average</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>31.89</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>23.39</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>31.45</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>24.57</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">100s/50s</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>1/9</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>0/5</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>2/18</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>0/0</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Top score</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>102</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>83</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>121</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>33*</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Balls</span> bowled</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>5884</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>5,855</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>18484</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>462</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Wickets</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>100</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>173</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>338</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>28</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="background: none; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Bowling average</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>32.26</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>29.72</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>28.55</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>22.07</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5 wickets in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">innings</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>7</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>2</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>17</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>0</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">10 wickets in match</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>2</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>n/a</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>3</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>n/a</b></span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Best bowling</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>7/59</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>5/27</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>7/35</b></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>3/16</b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Irfan Khan Pathan (Gujarati: ઇરફાન પઠાણ) born 27 October 1984) is an Indian cricketerwho plays all formats of the game. He made his debut for India in the 2003/04 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and was a core member of the national team until a decline in form set in during 2006, forcing him out of the team. Since then, he has been in and out of the limited-overs teams (ODIs and T20Is), and has only sporadic appearances in Test cricket. Pathan played his last Test in April, 2008 at the age of 24.<br /><br />Beginning his career as a fast-medium swing and seam bowler, Pathan broke into the national team soon after turning 19, and evoked comparisons with Pakistan's Wasim Akram with his promising performances and prodigious swing. In early 2006, Pathan became the only bowler to take a Test hat-trick in the first over of the match (vs Pakistan at Karachi). However, the productive run did not last and after the start of 2006, Pathan began to steadily lose pace and swing, and his wicket-taking dwindled. Although Pathan's batting continued to be productive, he was not regarded as a specialist and was dropped from the team in both Tests and ODIs by the end of 2006, and by 2007 was no longer in the squad until return in 2007 World Twenty20.<br />Irfan Pathan, along with players such as Vinod Kambli and Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, was included in the list of "India's lost boys" by Shashi Tharoor.<br />He cemented his position in the team and was named by the International Cricket Council as the 2004 Emerging Player of the Year. Pathan was instrumental in India's One-day international and Test series wins in Pakistan in 2004. He was described by the media as the "blue-eyed boy" of the Indian cricket.In late-2004 he took 18 wickets in two Tests against Bangladesh, but the start of 2005 he performed poorly and conceded runs at a high rate, leading to a brief exile from the one-day international (ODI) team.<br />Immediately thereafter, Australian Greg Chappell, one of the leading batsmen of his time, became India's coach (2005) and identified Pathan's batting potential. Pathan improved his batting skills and tried to become a complete bowling all-rounder, and he opened the batting on occasions in ODIs and scored 93 in a Test match (10 Dec 2005, versus Sri Lanka in Delhi) in the role after an illness to Virender Sehwag. He made three scores beyond 80 in the space of four Test innings against Sri Lanka and Pakistan. For the first nine months of Chappell's stint at the helm, Pathan performed strongly with both bat and ball, scoring runs regularly and frequently taking top-order wickets. He rose to No. 2 in the ICC's ODI rankings for all-rounders and was also in the top five in the Test rankings. This led critics to compare him to former Indian pace bowling allrounder Kapil Dev.<br />He returned to international cricket in September 2007 for the inaugural World Twenty20, where he took three wickets and was man of the match as India beat Pakistan in the final. This earned him a recall into the ODI team, where he was a regular for most of the next 12 months before being dropped as his economy rate continued to trend upwards and subsequently struggled with a loss of form and injuries. In late-2007 Pathan was also recalled into the Test team after 19 months and hit his maiden Test century, but could not maintain his place in the team as his bowling was not effective enough with only two pacemen needed. Pathan played his last Test for India in April 2008 against South Africa.He continued to perform with both bat and ball at the domestic level, although his sedate pace is frequently criticized as being irrelevant at the international level. However, he impressed during the 2011–12 Ranji Trophy, where he was the leading wicket-taker, and his performances earned him a recall to the national side again.</b></span>Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-36242925363900902302018-11-11T12:41:00.002+05:002018-11-11T12:41:19.301+05:00Ismail Shahid<table class="infobox biography vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Native name</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span class="nickname"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">اسماعیل شاہد</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">August 17, 1955<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 63)</span><br /><span class="birthplace"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Utmanzai, Charsadda</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">KPK</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Residence</span></th><td class="label" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Islamabad</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nationality</span></th><td class="category" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pakistani</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Other names</span></th><td class="nickname" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shahid</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Citizenship</span></th><td class="category" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">United Kingdom</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Education</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bachelor of Arts</span> in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Urdu</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alma mater</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">University of Peshawar</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Occupation</span></th><td class="role" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Director</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Actor</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Years active</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1980–present</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Known for</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Comedian</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Actor</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Notable work</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jhot Ki Aadat Nhi Mujay <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Urdu</span><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pashto</span> دوا او دوا پینڅ (Dwa aw Dwa Pinzu)<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">English</span>: Two and Two makes Five, a <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pashto</span> Drama</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Style</span></th><td class="category" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Simple</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Home town</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Utmanzai, Charsadda</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">KPK</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Height</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5.83 ft (178 cm)</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Weight</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">75 Kilogram</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Political party</span></th><td class="org" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Spouse(s)</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: normal; position: relative;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Neelam gul (<abbr style="border-bottom: 0px; cursor: help;" title="married">m.</abbr> 1990)</span></div>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Children</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Awards</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pride of Performance</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ismail Shahid (born August 17, 1955 in Utmanzai village of Charsadda, KPK, Pakistan) is a Pakistani actor and comedian.</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />In July 2016, he released two tele-films for Eid, Buda Kaka and Roond, Kunr ao Chaara.In December 2017, Shahid was one of 75 performers and sportspeople to be awarded at the Pride of Peshawar.</span></div>
Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-83778713492265358902018-11-11T12:37:00.000+05:002018-11-11T12:37:06.508+05:00Inayatullah Khan<table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody>
<tr><th class="fn" colspan="2" style="background-color: #ccbbee; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;">Inayatu'llah Khan</th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>King of the God granted Kingdom of Afghanistan and its dependencies</i><span style="font-size: 10.472px;"><small style="font-size: 10.472px;"></small></span></span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td class="photo" colspan="2" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><a class="image" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:King_Inayatullah_Khan_of_Afghanistan.jpg" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img alt="King Inayatullah Khan of Afghanistan.jpg" data-file-height="454" data-file-width="328" height="277" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/King_Inayatullah_Khan_of_Afghanistan.jpg/200px-King_Inayatullah_Khan_of_Afghanistan.jpg" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/King_Inayatullah_Khan_of_Afghanistan.jpg/300px-King_Inayatullah_Khan_of_Afghanistan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/King_Inayatullah_Khan_of_Afghanistan.jpg 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="200" /></span></b></a><div>
<i><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Portrait of Inayatuallah Khan, 1929</span></b></i></div>
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<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: #e4dcf6; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">King of Afghanistan</span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reign</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">January 14, 1929 – January 17, 1929</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Coronation</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">None</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Predecessor</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2018/08/amanullah-khan.html" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Amanullah Khan"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amanullah Khan</span></b></a></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Successor</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Habibullāh Kalakāni</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">October 20, 1888<br />Kabul, Emirate of Afghanistan</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Died</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">August 12, 1946 (aged 57)<br />Tehran, Imperial Iran</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Consort</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Khairiya</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dynasty</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Barakzai</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Father</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2018/09/habibullah-khan.html" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="Habibullah Khan"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Habibullah Khan</span></b></a></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mother</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Jamal Begum</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Religion</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sunni Islam</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Inayatullah Khan Seraj (October 20, 1888 – August 12, 1946) was the King of Afghanistan for three days in January 1929. He was the son of former Afghan Emir, Habibullah Khan. Inayatullah's brief reign ended with his abdication.<br /><br />In the middle of the night, on January 14, 1929, Amanullah Khan handed over his kingship to his brother Inayatullah Khan and tried to secretly escape from Kabul to Kandahar. Habibullāh Kalakāni and his followers chased Amanullah's Rolls Royce on horseback but Amanullah managed to escape.<br /><br />With the King gone, Kalakani wrote a letter to King Inayatullah to either surrender or prepare for war. Inayatullah's response was that he had never sought nor wished to be king and agreed to abdicate and proclaim Kalakani as king on January 18, 1929. Inayatullah was airlifted out of Kabul by the Royal Air Forceand spent the remainder of his life in exile, first in British India, until his death in Tehran in 1946.</b></span>Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-16966037593403830882018-09-15T20:43:00.001+05:002018-09-15T20:45:14.169+05:00Imran Ullah Khan<table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 24.5em;"><tbody>
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Born</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><img height="200" src="https://lawrencecollege.edu.pk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Gen-Imran-Ullah-Khan-254x300.jpg" width="169"><br /><br />
December 3, 1932<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 85)</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Charsadda</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Allegiance</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span class="flagicon"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-image: initial;"><img alt="Pakistan" class="thumbborder" data-file-height="600" data-file-width="900" height="15" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" width="23" /></span></span> Pakistan</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Service/<wbr style="display: inline-block;"></wbr>branch</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan Army</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Years of service</th><td style="vertical-align: top;">1955–1991</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Rank</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Lieutenant General</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Unit</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Khyber Pakhtunkhwa</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Commands held</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan Military Academy</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kakul</span><br />
10th Infantry Division, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Lahore</span><br />
Adjutant General (AG)<br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">X Corps</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Rawalpindi</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Battles/wars</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Indo-Pakistani War of 1965</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Lieutenant General Imran Ullah Khan (born 3 December 1932) is a retired Pakistan Army general. He remained the Governor of Balochistan province in PPP-led government from May 1994 to May 1997.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Early life and education</u></span></b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Imran Ullah Khan was born on 3 December 1932 to a family of shamozai which is local landlords family in the village now town of Utmanzai in Charsadda District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. His father was MajorSaadullah Khan who was a direct descendant of Malik Utman who founded the village/town of Utmanzai. The family belonged to the Sharif Khel Clan of the Pakhtuns</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Imran Ullah Khan the eldest of the four sons received his education from Bishop Cotton School Simla (Now India), Lawrence College Murree and Government College Lahore.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Career</u></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">After completing his education Imran Ullah Khan joined Pakistan Army and was sent to Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in England. On graduation from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst UK, he was commissioned into the Frontier Force Regiment on 18 September 1955 in the 12th PMA Long Course.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Serving Pakistan army he took part in 1965 war as a captain and in 1971 war as a Battalion Commander. He also participated in the Siachin operation as a Corps Commander.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">A graduate of Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Command and Staff College Quetta and Pakistan Air Force Staff College Karachi General Imran Ullah Khan also distinguished himself at the Royal College of Defence Studies, London UK. General Imran Ullah Khan has served on various important staff and instructional appointments during his career. These include Instructor at the School of Military Intelligence Kuldana, Murree, Instructor at Command and Staff College Quetta, Commandant Pakistan Military Academy and Director of Military Training.</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Commands</u></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">General Imran Ullah khan has had the privilege of commanding an infantry brigade on the Line of Control. As a Brigadier, he also had the distinction of holding the appointment of Director of Military Training Pakistan Army. In January 1978 he was appointed the Commandant of Pakistan Military Academy Kakul. He held this coveted post for over four years both as a Brigadier and Major General. In May 1982 he was posted as General Officer Commanding of the 10th Infantry Division at Lahore.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In May 1984 he was posted as Adjutant</span> <span style="font-size: large;">General of Pakistan Army at GHQ and in May 1987 he was posted to command the X Corps, the largest Corps of Pakistan Army, which is one of the two corps on the Line of Control. In this position he was responsible for operations in Siachen. He is credited with Pakistani successes at Chumik and in Operation Qidaat.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Retirement and governorship</u></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">General Imran Ullah Khan retired from the Army in May 1991 having put in 36 years of commissioned service and in May 1994, he was appointed as the Governor of Balochistan by Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. He resigned from Governorship for personal reasons in May 1997.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Awards</u></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">He was awarded Sitaraie-Herb 1965, Sitara-i-Herb 1971, Pakistan Defense Medal with Siachin clasp, Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Military), Sitara-i-Basalat and Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military).</span></span></div>
Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-77618665796783755232018-09-15T10:34:00.002+05:002018-09-18T16:16:20.248+05:00Imran Khan<table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; float: right; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody>
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<span class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 12.3323px;"><span class="noexcerpt" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">HI</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">PP</span></span></span></span></th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: 15.4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nickname" lang="Urdu"><small style="font-size: 13.09px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Nastaliq" dir="rtl" style="font-size: 16.3625px;" title="Nastaliq">عمران خان</span></span></small></span></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="Imran Khan 2012.jpg" data-file-height="2511" data-file-width="1815" height="304" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Imran_Khan_2012.jpg/220px-Imran_Khan_2012.jpg" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Imran_Khan_2012.jpg/330px-Imran_Khan_2012.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Imran_Khan_2012.jpg/440px-Imran_Khan_2012.jpg 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="220" /></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">22nd</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Prime Minister of Pakistan</span></span></th></tr>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Incumbent</span></span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">Assumed office</span><br />18 August 2018</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">President</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mamnoon Hussain</span><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Arif Alvi</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Preceded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nasirul Mulk</span> (<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">caretaker</span>)</span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Incharge Minister for Interior and Narcotics Control</span></th></tr>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Incumbent</span></span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">Assumed office</span><br />18 August 2018</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Preceded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Muhammad Azam Khan (caretaker)</span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Incharge Minister for Communications</span></th></tr>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Incumbent</span></span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">Assumed office</span><br />11 September 2018</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Preceded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hafiz Abdul Kareem</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Incharge Minister for Power</span></th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">In office</span><br />18 August 2018 – 11 September 2018</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Preceded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Syed Ali Zafar (caretaker)</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Succeeded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Omar Ayub Khan</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Chairman of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</span></span></th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div style="background-color: lavender; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 290px;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Incumbent</span></span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">Assumed office</span><br />25 April 1996</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Deputy</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shah Mehmood Qureshi</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Preceded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Position established</span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Member of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">National Assembly</span></span></th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><div style="background-color: lavender; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 290px;">
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Incumbent</span></span></div>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">Assumed office</span><br />13 August 2018</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Preceded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Obaidullah Shadikhel</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Constituency</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">NA-95 (Mianwali-I)</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Majority</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">113,523 (44.89%)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">In office</span><br />19 June 2013 – 31 May 2018</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Preceded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hanif Abbasi</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Succeeded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Vacant</span></i></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Constituency</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">NA-56 (Rawalpindi-VII)</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Majority</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">13,268 (8.28%)</span></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">In office</span><br />10 October 2002 – 3 November 2007</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Preceded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Constituency established</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Succeeded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Constituency</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">NA-71 (Mianwali-I)</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Majority</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">6,204 (4.49%)</span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Chancellor of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">University of Bradford</span></span></th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">In office</span><br />7 December 2005 – 7 December 2014</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Preceded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Baroness Lockwood</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Succeeded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kate Swann</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Personal details</span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nickname">Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi</span><br />5 October 1952<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 65)</span><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Lahore</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Political party</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Spouse(s)</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Jemima Goldsmith</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(<abbr style="border-bottom: 0px; cursor: help;" title="married">m.</abbr> 1995; <abbr style="border-bottom: 0px; cursor: help;" title="divorced">div.</abbr> 2004)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Reham Khan</span><br />
(<abbr style="border-bottom: 0px; cursor: help;" title="married">m.</abbr> 2015; <abbr style="border-bottom: 0px; cursor: help;" title="divorced">div.</abbr> 2015)</div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bushra Bibi</span> (<abbr style="border-bottom: 0px; cursor: help;" title="married">m.</abbr> 2018)</div>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Domestic partner</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Emma Sergeant (1982–1986)<br />Sita White (<abbr style="border-bottom: 0px; cursor: help;" title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> 1987–1991</span>)</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Children</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Tyrian<br />Sulaiman<br />Kasim</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Education</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Keble College, Oxford</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10.472px;">(<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">B.A. (Hons.)</span> in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">PPE</span>)</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Net worth</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">₨1.4 billion</span> (US$13 million)</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Awards</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hilal-e-Imtiaz</span><br />1992<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pride of Performance</span><br />1983 </span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Signature</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="" data-file-height="354" data-file-width="744" height="61" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Imran_Khan_signature.svg/128px-Imran_Khan_signature.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Imran_Khan_signature.svg/192px-Imran_Khan_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Imran_Khan_signature.svg/256px-Imran_Khan_signature.svg.png 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="128" /></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Nickname(s)</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kaptaan</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Personal information</span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Height</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">6 ft 2 in (188 cm)</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Batting</span></th><td class="category" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Right-handed batsman</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Bowling</span></th><td class="category" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Right-arm fast</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Role</span></th><td class="role" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">All-rounder</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">International information</span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">National side</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><div class="plainlist">
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pakistan</span></span></li>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Test debut (cap <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">88</span>)</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3 June 1971 v <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">England</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Last Test</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2 January 1992 v <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sri Lanka</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">ODI</span> debut (cap <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">175</span>)</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">31 August 1974 v <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">England</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Last ODI</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">25 March 1992 v <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">England</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Career statistics</span></th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><table style="font-size: 12.32px; margin: -1px; white-space: nowrap; width: 293.6px;"><tbody>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Competition</span></th><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Test</span></th><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">ODI</span></th><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">FC</span></th><th style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background: none; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">LA</span></th></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Matches</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">88</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">175</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">382</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">425</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="background: none; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Batting average</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">37.69</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">33.41</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">36.79</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">33.22</span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">100s/50s</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">6/18</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1/19</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">30/93</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">5/66</span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Top score</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">136</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">102<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">*</span></span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">170</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">114<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">*</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Balls</span> bowled</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">19,458</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">7,461</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">65,224</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">19,122</span></td></tr>
<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="background: none; color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Wickets</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">362</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">182</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1287</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">507</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">5 wickets in <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">innings</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">23</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">70</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">6</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th style="padding-right: 1em; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; width: 6em;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Catches/<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">stumpings</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">28/–</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">36/–</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">117/–</span></td><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">84/–</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Khan </b>retired from cricket in 1992, as one of Pakistan's most successful players. In total he made 3,807 runs and took 362 wickets in Test cricket, and is one of eight world cricketers to have achieved an 'All-rounder's Triple' in Test matches. He was later, in 2010, inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. In 1991, he launched a fundraising campaign to set up a cancer hospital in memory of his mother. He raised $25 million to set up a hospital in Lahore in 1994, and later in 2015 a second hospital in Peshawar.Khan remains a prominent philanthropist and commentator, and served as the chancellor of Bradford University between 2005 and 2014 and was the recipient of an honorary fellowship by the Royal College of Physicians in 2012.Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi HI PP (Urdu: عمران احمد خان نیازی; born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician and former cricketer who is the 22nd and current Prime Minister of Pakistan. He is also the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Previously he was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2002 to 2007, and again from 2013 to 2018. Prior to entering politics, Khan was a cricketer and philanthropist. He played international cricket for two decades, and later developed philanthropic projects such as the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre and Namal College.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Khan was born to an upper-middle class </span><a href="http://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2018/06/pashtuns.html" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Pashtun</a><span style="font-size: large;"> family in Lahore, Punjab, in 1952; he was educated at Aitchison College in Lahore, then the Royal Grammar School Worcester in Worcester, England, and later at Keble College, Oxford. He started playing cricket at the age of 13. Initially playing for his college and later for Worcestershire, Khan made his debut for the Pakistan national cricket team at the age of 18, during the 1971 series against England at Edgbaston, Birmingham. After graduating from Oxford, he made his home debut for Pakistan in 1976, and played until 1992. He also served as the team's captain intermittently between 1982 and 1992.</span><span style="font-size: large;">Notably, he led Pakistan to victory at the 1992 Cricket World Cup, Pakistan's first and only victory in that competition.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In April 1996, Khan founded the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (lit: Pakistan Movement for Justice), a centrist political party, and became the party's national leader.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Khan contested for a seat in the National Assembly in October 2002 and served as an opposition member from Mianwali until 2007. He was again elected to the parliament in the 2013 elections, when his party emerged as the second largest in the country by popular vote.</span><span style="font-size: large;">Khan served as the parliamentary leader of the party and led the third-largest block of parliamentarians in the National Assembly from 2013 to 2018. His party also led a coalition government in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> In the 2018 general elections, his party won the largest number of seats and defeated the ruling PML-N, bringing Khan to premiership and the PTI into federal government for the first time</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Khan remains a popular public figure and is the author of, among other publications, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Early life and family</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Khan was born in Lahore on 5 October 1952.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Some reports suggest he was born on 25 November 1952.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> It was reported that 25 November was wrongly mentioned by Pakistan Cricket Board officials on his passport.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> He was the only son of Ikramullah Khan Niazi, a civil engineer, and his wife Shaukat Khanum, and has four sisters.Long settled in Mianwali in northwestern Punjab, his paternal family are of Pashtun ethnicity and belong to the Niazi tribe,</span><span style="font-size: large;">and one of his ancestors, Haibat Khan Niazi, in the 16th century, "was one of Sher Shah Suri’s leading generals, as well as being the governor of Punjab."</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Khan's mother hailed from the Pashtun tribe of Burki, which had produced several successful cricketers in Pakistan's history,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> including his cousins Javed Burki and Majid Khan.</span><span style="font-size: large;">Maternally, Khan is also a descendant of the Sufi warrior-poet and inventor of the Pashto alphabet, Pir Roshan, who hailed from his maternal family's ancestral Kaniguram town located in South Waziristan in the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> His maternal family was based in Basti Danishmanda, Jalandhar, British India for about 600 years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A quiet and shy boy in his youth, Khan grew up with his sisters in relatively affluent, upper middle-class circumstances</span><span style="font-size: large;"> and received a privileged education. He was educated at the Aitchison College and Cathedral School in Lahore,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> and then the Royal Grammar School Worcester in England, where he excelled at cricket. In 1972, he enrolled in Keble College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, graduating with honours in 1975.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Cricket career</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Khan made his Test cricket debut against England in 1971 at Edgbaston. Three years later, he debuted in the One Day International (ODI) match, once again playing against England at Trent Bridge for the Prudential Trophy. After graduating from Oxford and finishing his tenure at Worcestershire, he returned to Pakistan in 1976 and secured a permanent place on his native national team starting from the 1976–1977 season, during which they faced New Zealand and Australia.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Following the Australian series, he toured the West Indies, where he met Tony Greig, who signed him up for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> His credentials as one of the fastest bowlers of the world started to become established when he finished third at 139.7 km/h in a fast bowling contest at Perth in 1978, behind Jeff Thomson and Michael Holding, but ahead of Dennis Lillee, Garth Le Roux and Andy Roberts.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> During the late 1970s, Khan was one of the pioneers of the reverse swing bowling technique. He imparted this trick to the bowling duo of Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, who mastered and popularised this art in later years.</span><span style="font-size: large;">Khan made his first-class cricket debut at the age of 16 in Lahore. By the start of the 1970s, he was playing for his home teams of Lahore A (1969–70), Lahore B (1969–70), Lahore Greens (1970–71) and, eventually, Lahore (1970–71).</span><span style="font-size: large;">Khan was part of the University of Oxford's Blues Cricket team during the 1973–1975 seasons.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> At Worcestershire, where he played county cricket from 1971 to 1976, he was regarded as only an average medium-pace bowler. During this decade, other teams represented by Khan included Dawood Industries (1975–1976) and Pakistan International Airlines (1975–1976 to 1980–1981). From 1983 to 1988, he played for Sussex.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As a fast bowler, Khan reached the peak of his prowess in 1982. In 9 Tests, he got 62 wickets at 13.29 each, the lowest average of any bowler in Test history with at least 50 wickets in a calendar year.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> In January 1983, playing against India, he attained a Test bowling rating of 922 points. Although calculated retrospectively (International Cricket Council (ICC) player ratings did not exist at the time), Khan's form and performance during this period ranks third in the ICC's All-Time Test Bowling Rankings.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Khan achieved the all-rounder's triple (securing 3000 runs and 300 wickets) in 75 Tests, the second-fastest record behind Ian Botham's 72. He is also established as having the second-highest all-time batting average of 61.86 for a Test batsman playing at position 6 of the batting order.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> He played his last Test match for Pakistan in January 1992, against Sri Lanka at Faisalabad. Khan retired permanently from cricket six months after his last ODI, the historic 1992 World Cup final against England in Melbourne, Australia.</span><span style="font-size: large;">He ended his career with 88 Test matches, 126 innings and scored 3807 runs at an average of 37.69, including six centuries and 18 fifties. His highest score was 136 runs. As a bowler, he took 362 wickets in Test cricket, which made him the first Pakistani and world's fourth bowler to do so.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> In ODIs, he played 175 matches and scored 3709 runs at an average of 33.41. His highest score remains 102 not out. His best ODI bowling is documented at 6 wickets for 14 runs, a record for the best bowling figures by any bowler in an ODI innings in a losing cause.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">At the height of his career, in 1982, the thirty-year-old Khan took over the captaincy of the Pakistan cricket team from Javed Miandad. As a captain, Khan played 48 Test matches, out of which 14 were won by Pakistan, 8 lost and the rest of 26 were drawn. He also played 139 ODIs, winning 77, losing 57 and ending one in a tie.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In the team's second match, Khan led them to their first Test win on English soil for 28 years at Lord's.Khan's first year as captain was the peak of his legacy as a fast bowler as well as an all-rounder. He recorded the best Test bowling of his career while taking 8 wickets for 58 runs against Sri Lanka at Lahore in 1981–1982.He also topped both the bowling and batting averages against England in three Test series in 1982, taking 21 wickets and averaging 56 with the bat. Later the same year, he put up a highly acknowledged performance in a home series against the formidable Indian team by taking 40 wickets in six Tests at an average of 13.95. By the end of this series in 1982–1983, Khan had taken 88 wickets in 13 Test matches over a period of one year as captain. This same Test series against India, however, also resulted in a stress fracture in his shin that kept him out of cricket for more than two years. An experimental treatment funded by the Pakistani government helped him recover by the end of 1984 and he made a successful comeback to international cricket in the latter part of the 1984–1985 season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">In India in 1987, Khan led Pakistan in its first-ever Test series win and this was followed by Pakistan's first series victory in England during the same year. During the 1980s, his team also recorded three creditable draws against the West Indies. India and Pakistan co-hosted the 1987 Cricket World Cup, but neither ventured beyond the semi-finals. Khan retired from international cricket at the end of the World Cup. In 1988, he was asked to return to the captaincy by the President of Pakistan, General Zia-Ul-Haq, and on 18 January, he announced his decision to rejoin the team.Soon after returning to the captaincy, Khan led Pakistan to another winning tour in the West Indies, which he has recounted as "the last time I really bowled well". He was declared Man of the Series against West Indies in 1988 when he took 23 wickets in 3 Tests.Khan's career-high as a captain and cricketer came when he led Pakistan to victory in the 1992 Cricket World Cup. Playing with a brittle batting line-up, Khan promoted himself as a batsman to play in the top order along with Javed Miandad, but his contribution as a bowler was minimal. At the age of 39, Khan took the winning last wicket himself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Khan tearing his nomination paper for National Assembly at a press conference; he boycotted the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">2008</span>elections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Khan was offered political position few times during his cricketing career. In 1987, then-President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haqoffered him a political position in Pakistan Muslim League (PML) which he declined. He was also invited by Nawaz Sharif to join his</span><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />political party.<br />In late 1994, he joined a pressure group led by former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Hamid Gul and Muhammad Ali Durrani who was head of Pasban, a breakaway youth wing of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan. The same year, he also showed his interest in joining politics.<br />On 25 April 1996, Khan founded a political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). He ran for the seat of National Assembly of Pakistan in Pakistani general election, 1997 as a candidate of PTI from two constituencies - NA-53, Mianwali and NA-94, Lahore - but was unsuccessful and lost both the seats to candidates of PML (N).<br />Khan supported General Pervez Musharraf's military coup in 1999, believing Musharraf would "end corruption, clear out the political mafias".According to Khan, he was Musharraf's choice for prime minister in 2002 but turned down the offer.Khan participated in the October 2002 Pakistani general election that took place across 272 constituencies and was prepared to form a coalition if his party did not get a majority of the vote. He was elected from Mianwali.In the 2002 referendum, Khan supported military dictator General Musharraf, while all mainstream democratic parties declared that referendum as unconstitutional. He has also served as a part of the Standing Committees on Kashmir and Public Accounts. On 6 May 2005, Khan was mentioned in The New Yorker as being the "most directly responsible" for drawing attention in the Muslim world to the Newsweek story about the alleged desecration of the Qur'an in a US military prison at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. In June 2007, Khan faced political opponents in and outside the parliament.<br /><br />On 2 October 2007, as part of the All Parties Democratic Movement, Khan joined 85 other MPs to resign from Parliament in protest of the presidential election scheduled for 6 October, which general Musharraf was contesting without resigning as army chief.On 3 November 2007, Khan was put under house arrest, after president Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan. Later Khan escaped and went into hiding. He eventually came out of hiding on 14 November to join a student protest at the University of the Punjab. At the rally, Khan was captured by student activists from the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba and roughly treated. He was arrested during the protest and was sent to the Dera Ghazi Khan jail in the Punjab province where he spent a few days before being released.<br />On 30 October 2011, Khan addressed more than 100,000 supporters in Lahore, challenging the policies of the government, calling that new change a "tsunami" against the ruling parties,Another successful public gathering of hundreds of thousands of supporters was held in Karachi on 25 December 2011. Since then Khan became a real threat to the ruling parties and a future political prospect in Pakistan. According to a International Republican Institute's survey, Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf tops the list of popular parties in Pakistan both at the national and provincial level.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">On 6 October 2012, Khan joined a vehicle caravan of protesters from Islamabad to the village of Kotai in Pakistan's South Waziristan region against US drone missile strikes. On 23 March 2013, Khan introduced the Naya Pakistan Resolution(New Pakistan) at the start of his election campaign. On 29 April The Observer termed Khan and his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf as the main opposition to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz. Between 2011 and 2013, Khan and Nawaz Sharif began to engage each other in a bitter feud. The rivalry between the two leaders grew in late 2011 when Khan addressed his largest crowd at Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore.From 26 April 2013, in the run up to the elections, both the PML-N and the PTI started to criticise each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">On 21 April 2013, Khan launched his final public relations campaign for the 2013 elections from Lahore where he addressed thousands of supporters at the Mall.Khan announced that he would pull Pakistan out of the US-led war on terror and bring peace to the Pashtun tribal belt. He addressed different public meetings in various cities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other parts of country where he announced that PTI will introduce a uniform education system in which the children of rich and poor will have equal opportunities. Khan ended his south Punjab campaign by addressing rallies in various Seraiki belt cities.<br />Khan ended the campaign by addressing a rally of supporters in Islamabad via a video link while lying on a bed at a hospital in Lahore. The last survey before the elections by The Herald showed 24.98 percent of voters nationally planned to vote for his party, just a whisker behind former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's PML-N. On 7 May, just four days before the elections, Khan was rushed to Shaukat Khanum hospital in Lahore after he tumbled from a forklift at the edge of a stage and fell headfirst to the ground.Pakistan's 2013 elections were held on 11 May 2013 throughout the country. The elections resulted in a clear majority of Pakistan Muslim League (N). Khan's PTI emerged as the second largest party by popular vote nationally including in Karachi. Khan's party PTI won 30 directly elected parliamentary seats and became third largest party in National Assembly behind Pakistan People’s Party, which was second.</span></div>
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Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-65559292125529217992018-09-15T10:09:00.001+05:002018-09-15T10:13:00.434+05:00Ibrahim Lodi<table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody>
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<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sultan</span> of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Delhi</span></i><small style="font-size: 10.472px;"></small></td></tr>
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A modern-day sketch depicting Sultan Ibrahim Lodi</div>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Reign</th><td style="vertical-align: top;">1517 – 21 April 1526</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Coronation</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;">1517, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Agra</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Predecessor</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sikandar Lodi</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Successor</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Babur</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Died</th><td style="vertical-align: top;">21 April 1526<br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Panipat</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Mughal empire</span> now <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Haryana</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">India</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Burial</th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span class="label">Tehsil Office, Panipat</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">House</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Lodi dynasty</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;">Father</th><td style="vertical-align: top;">Sikandar Lodi</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="font-size: x-large;">Ibrahim Lodi </b><span style="font-size: large;">became the Sultan of Delhi in 1517 after the death of his father Sikandar Lodi. He was the last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, reigning for nine years between 1517 until being defeated and killed at the battle of Panipat by Babur's invading army in 1526, giving way to the emergence of the Mughal Empire in India.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Ibrahim was an ethnic Pashtun. He attained the throne upon the death of his father, Sikandar, but was not blessed with the same ruling capability. He faced a number of rebellions. The Mewar ruler Rana Sangram Singh (Rana Sanga) extended his empire right up to western Uttar Pradesh and threatened to attack Agra. There was rebellion in the Eastern India as well. Ibrahim Lodi also displeased the nobility when he replaced old and senior commanders with younger ones who were loyal to him. His Afghan nobility eventually invited Babur to invade India.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In 1526, the Mughal forces of Babur, the king of Kabulistan (Kabul, present Afghanistan), defeated Ibrahim's much larger army in the Battle of Panipat. Ibrahim was killed during the battle. It is estimated that Babur's forces numbered around 25,000–30,000 men and had between 20 and 24 pieces of field artillery. Ibrahim Lodi had around 30,000–40,000 men along with at least 100 elephants.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">After the end of Lodi dynasty, the era of Mughal rule commenced.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><u>Tomb</u></span></b></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quarter Tanka Of Ibrahim Lodi</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">His tomb is often mistaken to be the Shisha Gumbad within Lodi Gardens, Delhi. Rather Ibrahim Lodi's Tomb is actually situated near the tehsil office in Panipat, close to the Dargah of Sufi saint Bu Ali Shah Qalandar. It is a simple rectangular structure on a high platform approached by a flight of steps. In 1866, the British relocated the tomb during construction of the Grand Trunk Road and renovated it with an inscription highlighting Ibrahim Lodi’s death in the Battle of Panipat. He also built a Khwaja Khizr Tomb in Sonipat in 1522. </span></span></div>
Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-49862095435850951732018-09-15T09:58:00.002+05:002018-09-15T10:01:33.587+05:00Hamid Gul<table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody>
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<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">8th <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence</span></span></th></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Preceded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Akhtar Abdur Rahman</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Succeeded by</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shamsur Rahman Kallu</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Commander <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">II Corps</span>,Multan</span></th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>In office</b></span><br />May 1989 – January 1992</span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Director-General of <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Military Intelligence</span></span></th></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2" style="border-bottom: none; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>In office</b></span><br />1983–1987</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">20 November 1936<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sargodha</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">British Punjab</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">British Indian Empire</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Died</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">15 August 2015 (aged 78)<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Murree</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Punjab</span>, Pakistan</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nationality</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pakistani</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Alma mater</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan Military Academy</span><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Government College University, Lahore</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Occupation</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Retired army officer and former <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">spymaster</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Awards</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sitara-e-Basalat<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hilal-e-Imtiaz</span> (Military)</span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lavender; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Military service</span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Allegiance</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" class="thumbborder" data-file-height="600" data-file-width="900" height="15" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" width="23" /> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Service/branch</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" class="thumbborder" data-file-height="216" data-file-width="324" height="15" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_the_Pakistani_Army.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Pakistani_Army.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_the_Pakistani_Army.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Pakistani_Army.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Flag_of_the_Pakistani_Army.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Pakistani_Army.svg.png 2x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" width="23" /> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan Army</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Years of service</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1956–1993</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rank</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial;"><img alt="OF-8 PakistanArmy.svg" data-file-height="461" data-file-width="201" height="64" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/OF-8_PakistanArmy.svg/28px-OF-8_PakistanArmy.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/OF-8_PakistanArmy.svg/42px-OF-8_PakistanArmy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/OF-8_PakistanArmy.svg/56px-OF-8_PakistanArmy.svg.png 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="28" /></span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Lieutenant General</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Unit</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">19th Lancers</span>, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Army Armoured Corps</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Commands</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1st Armoured Division, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Multan</span><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">DG</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Military Intelligence</span>(DGMI)<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">DG</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Inter-Services Intelligence</span>(ISI)<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">II </span><i>Strike</i> Corps, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Multan</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Battles/wars</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Indo-Pakistani War of 1965</span><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Indo-Pakistani War of 1971</span><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Soviet–Afghan War</span><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Battle of Jalalabad</span><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Afghanistan War of 1989</span><br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Operation Rakhshak</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Hamid Gul </b>(Urdu: حمید گل; 20 November 1936 – 15 August 2015) HI(M), SBt, was a three-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army and defence analyst. Gul was notable for serving as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence(ISI), Pakistan's premier intelligence agency, between 1987 and 1989. During his tenure, Gul played an instrumental role in directing ISI support to Afghan resistance groups against Soviet forces during the Soviet–Afghan War, in cooperation with the CIA. Among his possessions was a piece of the Berlin Wall, gifted to him by the Germans for "delivering the first blow" to the Soviet Union.<br />Gul was also widely credited for expanding covert support to Kashmiri nationalist groups against neighbouring rival India in the disputed Kashmir region from 1989, diverting focus from the fallout of the Soviet war. Gul earned a reputation as a "Godfather" of Pakistani geostrategic policies. Following an escalation of the Kashmir militancy in India and the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, he was accused by the United States of having ties to shady groups.However, Gul denied the allegations. Gul's tenure as the director of the ISI coincided with Benazir Bhutto's term as the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Later, Gul played a role in the establishment of the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad, a conservative political alliance formed to oppose Bhutto's Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Early life</span></u></b><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Gul was born on 20 November 1936 to Muhammad Khan in Sargodha, Punjab, British Raj (now Pakistan). He got his early education from a school in his village. He briefly got admission in Government College Lahore, before being admitted to Pakistan Military Academy</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Kakul. Gul's family were Pathans of Punjab and belonged to the Yusufzai tribe, who originated from Swat (Buner), later settling in Sargodha in Punjab.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Army career</span></u></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hamid Gul was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in October 1956 with the 18th PMA Long Course in the 19th Lancersregiment of the Armoured Corps. He was a squadron commander during the 1965 war with India. He attended the Command and Staff College Quetta in 1968-69. During 1972–1976, Gul directly served under General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq as a battalion commander, and then as Staff Colonel, when General Zia was GOC, 1st Armoured Division and Commander, II Corps at Multan. Thus, Gul had already cemented his ties with General Zia by serving under him when both were officers in the Armoured regiments of the II Corps. Gul was promoted to Brigadier in 1978 and steadily rose to be the Martial Law Administrator of Bahawalpur and then the Commander of the 1st Armoured Division, Multan in 1982, his appointments expressly wished by Zia himself.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Gul was then sent to GHQ as the Director-General or DG Military Intelligence (DGMI)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> under General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq who then nominated him to be the ISI chief succeeding General Akhtar Abdur Rahman in March 1987. He was later replaced as the ISI commander by PM</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Benazir Bhutto in May 1989 and Gul was transferred as the commander, II Corps in Multan. In this capacity, Gul conducted the Zarb-e-Momin military exercise in November–December 1989, the biggest Pakistani Armed Forces show of muscle since 1971 Indo-Pakistani War.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">General Asif Nawaz upon taking the reins of Pakistan Army in August 1991, had transferred Gul as the DG Heavy Industries Taxila. A menial job compared to Gul's stature, Gul refused to take the assignment, an act for which he was retired from the army.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">During his time as head of the ISI amid the Soviet–Afghan War, Gul was said to have planned and executed the operation to capture Jalalabad from the Soviet-backed Afghan army in the spring of 1989. This switch to conventional warfare was seen as a mistake by some since the mujahideen did not have the capacity to capture a major city, and the battle did not yield expected ground results. However, the Pakistani army was intent on installing a resistance-backed government in Afghanistan, with Jalalabad as their provisional capital, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf as Prime Minister, and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar as Foreign Minister.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Contrary to Pakistani expectations, this battle proved that the Afghan army could fight without Soviet help, and greatly increased the confidence of government supporters. Conversely, the morale of the mujahideen involved in the attack slumped and many local commanders of Hekmatyar and Sayyaf concluded truces with the government.</span><span style="font-size: large;">In the words of Brigadier Mohammad Yousef, an officer of the ISI, "the jihad [meaning the plans for Hekmatyar to be installed as prime minister] never recovered from Jalalabad". As a result of this failure, Hamid Gul was sacked by Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and replaced by Shamsur Rahman Kallu, who pursued a more classical policy of support to the rebels fighting in Afghanistan.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">During his tenure as ISI chief in 1988, General Gul successfully gathered conservative politicians and helped them create Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI), a centre-right conservative coalition united against the left-leaning Pakistan Peoples Party. Gul later acknowledged his role in IJI's formation in various interviews </span><span style="font-size: large;">for which he was harshly rebuked in one of the editorials of a major Pakistani newspaper, which asked the general to apologise first to the PPP for having done so and after that, apologising for a lack of intelligence because the IJI could not maintain its two-thirds majority for long.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to accusations by Indian commentator B Raman, Gul actively backed Khalistani militants. "When Bhutto became prime minister in 1988", Raman says, "Gul justified backing these insurgents as the only way of pre-empting a fresh Indian threat to Pakistan's territorial integrity. When she asked him to stop playing that card, he reportedly told her: Madam, keeping Punjab destabilized is equivalent to the Pakistan army having an extra division at no cost to the taxpayers." "Gul strongly advocated supporting indigenous Kashmiri groups", adds Raman, "but was against infiltrating Pakistani and Afghan mercenaries into Jammu and Kashmir. He believed Pakistan would play into India's hands by doing so."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In Islamabad, Gul asked for Iran to explain its bona fides regarding the pact signed with India to jointly counter terrorism. According to him, "Iran should come clear on the nature of agreement with India. Otherwise this will create doubts and apprehensions in Muslim Ummah that Iran helps RAW in putting down Kashmir jihad". He also added that in case doubts about the agreement came true and Iran was seen as working with India against "Kashmir freedom struggle", then it would be concluded that the country also supports Mossad, the Israeli external intelligence agency.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">General Gul worked closely with the CIA during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, when he was the ISI head. However, he became dispassionate with the United States after it turned its back on Afghanistan following the 1989 Soviet withdrawal, as the United States had promised to help build a prosperous Afghanistan.</span><span style="font-size: large;">He was further disconcerted when the USA began punishing Pakistan with economic and military sanctions for its secret nuclear program. General Gul then went on to declare that "the Muslim world must stand united to confront the U.S. in its so-called War on Terrorism, which is in reality a war against Muslims. Let's destroy America wherever its troops are trapped."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">General Gul personally met Osama Bin Laden in 1993 and refused to label him a terrorist unless and until irrefutable evidence was provided linking him to alleged acts of terrorism.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Only days after the September 11 attacks, Gul also stated his belief that the attacks were "clearly an inside job". </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">According to Zahid Hussain, in his book Frontline Pakistan, Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul and former Army chief General Mirza Aslam Beg were part of the 9 January 2001 Darul Uloom Haqqania Islamic conference held near Peshawar, which was also attended by 300 leaders representing various Islamic groups. The meeting declared it a religious duty of Muslims all over the world to protect the government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, and the Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden it was hosting, whom they considered as a 'great Muslim warrior.'</span><span style="font-size: large;"> He has since gone on to praise Pakistan for hiding Bin Laden for nine years, in a television interview with Times Now.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">On 12 March 2007, Gul marched alongside activists from the liberal democratic parties and retired former senior military officers against General Pervez Musharraf. General Gul faced down riot police when they tried to arrest him at a rally outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad protesting against attempts to dismiss Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">He turned against the restored Supreme Court chief justice after a bench allowed Musharraf to contest the elections in uniform.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Days after the 2007 Karachi bombings, Benazir Bhutto in a letter to President Musharaf written on 16 October 2007 named Hamid Gul as one of the four persons including the current Intelligence Bureau (IB) Chief Ijaz Shah, the then chief minister of Punjab Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, then chief minister of Sindh Arbab Ghulam Rahim, she suspected were behind the attacks.</span><span style="font-size: large;">Gul responded furiously to these claims. He was arrested on 4 November by the military police in Islamabad during President Pervez Musharraf's declared state of emergency.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Gul acknowledged his affiliation with Ummah Tameer-e-Nau.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> United States government prompted Gul's name in a list of 4 former ISI officers for inclusion in the list of international terrorists that was sent to UN Secretary General, but China refused.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">In 2008 Gul was informed by a senior official in Pakistan's Foreign Ministry that he had been placed on a U.S. watch list of "global terrorists", along with several others. He was shown a U.S. document that detailed several charges against him, including allegations that he had ties to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Gul rejected these allegations.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> On 14 December 2008, President Asif Ali Zardari in an interview with Newsweek described Hamid Gul as a "political ideologue" of terror rather than a physical supporter.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> According to the Daily Telegraph, following the death of Osama bin Laden, Gul opined that US forces had killed him in Afghanistan and moved the body to Abbottabad to humiliate Pakistan</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hamid Gul suffered a hemorrhagic stroke in Murree. According to reports, he had been suffering from high blood pressure and headaches for some time.His death was condoled by the Prime Minister</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Nawaz Sharif, Chief of Army Staff</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Raheel Sharif and other high officials.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Gul is buried at the army cemetery in Westridge, Rawalpindi.</span></span></div>
Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-54015231450731627252018-09-15T09:50:00.004+05:002018-11-22T11:49:30.883+05:00Hussain Hotak<table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody>
<tr><th class="fn" colspan="2" style="background-color: #ccbbee; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Shah Hussain Hotak</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">شاه حسين هوتک</span></th></tr>
<tr><td class="photo" colspan="2" style="text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="Shah-Husain-Hotak.jpg" data-file-height="750" data-file-width="515" height="291" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Shah-Husain-Hotak.jpg/200px-Shah-Husain-Hotak.jpg" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Shah-Husain-Hotak.jpg/300px-Shah-Husain-Hotak.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Shah-Husain-Hotak.jpg/400px-Shah-Husain-Hotak.jpg 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="200" /></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: #e4dcf6; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Emir of Afghanistan</span></span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Reign</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Hotak Empire</span>: 1725–1738</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Coronation</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1725</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Predecessor</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2018/11/mahmud-hotak.html" target="_blank">Mahmud Hotak</a></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Successor</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://pushtoworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/ahmad-shah-durrani.html" target="_blank">Ahmad Shah Abdali</a></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kandahar Province</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Died</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1738</span><br />
<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kandahar</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Burial</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span class="label" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Kandahar</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="nickname" colspan="2" style="padding-left: 0.7em; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Hussain Hotak</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dynasty</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hotak dynasty</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Father</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mirwais Hotak</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Religion</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sunni Islam</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Shah Hussain Hotak</b>, (Pashto شاه حسين هوتک), son of Mirwais Hotak, was the fifth and last ruler of the Hotak dynasty. An ethnic Pashtun (Afghan) from the Ghilji tribe, he succeeded to the throne after the death of his brother Mahmud Hotak in 1725. He was also a Pashto language poet. While his cousin Ashraf ruled most of Persia from Isfahan, Hussain ruled what is now Afghanistan from Kandahar.<br /><br />Ashraf Khan's death in 1729 marked the end of the very short lived Hotak rule in Persia (Iran), but what is now Afghanistan was still under Hussain' control until 1738 when Nader Shah conquered it. It was only a short pause before the establishment of the last Afghan Empire and the predecessor of modern Afghanistan in 1747.</span>Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-38730354746971169912018-09-15T09:44:00.000+05:002018-09-15T09:48:20.557+05:00Hashim Khan<br />
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<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" /> Pakistan</td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Residence</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aurora, Colorado, U.S.</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1914<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Peshawar</span>, British Raj</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Died</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><time class="dday deathdate" datetime="2014-08-18">18 August 2014</time> (aged 100)<br /><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Aurora, Colorado</span>, U.S.</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Height</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><th class="adr" colspan="3" style="background-color: #eeeeee; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Representing <span class="country-name"><span class="flagicon"><img alt="" class="thumbborder" data-file-height="600" data-file-width="900" height="15" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/23px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/35px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Flag_of_Pakistan.svg/45px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg.png 2x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(234, 236, 240); vertical-align: middle;" width="23" /> </span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Pakistan</span></span></span></th></tr>
<tr><th colspan="3" style="background-color: #cccccc; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">British Open Squash Championships</span></th></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="Gold medal – first place" data-file-height="16" data-file-width="16" height="16" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Gold medal – first place" width="16" /></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1951</span></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="Gold medal – first place" data-file-height="16" data-file-width="16" height="16" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Gold medal – first place" width="16" /></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1952</span></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="Gold medal – first place" data-file-height="16" data-file-width="16" height="16" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Gold medal – first place" width="16" /></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1953</span></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="Gold medal – first place" data-file-height="16" data-file-width="16" height="16" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Gold medal – first place" width="16" /></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1954</span></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="Gold medal – first place" data-file-height="16" data-file-width="16" height="16" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Gold medal – first place" width="16" /></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1955</span></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="Gold medal – first place" data-file-height="16" data-file-width="16" height="16" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Gold medal – first place" width="16" /></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1956</span></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="Silver medal – second place" data-file-height="16" data-file-width="16" height="16" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Silver_medal_icon_%28S_initial%29.svg/16px-Silver_medal_icon_%28S_initial%29.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Silver_medal_icon_%28S_initial%29.svg/24px-Silver_medal_icon_%28S_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Silver_medal_icon_%28S_initial%29.svg/32px-Silver_medal_icon_%28S_initial%29.svg.png 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Silver medal – second place" width="16" /></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1957</span></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"></td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img alt="Gold medal – first place" data-file-height="16" data-file-width="16" height="16" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" title="Gold medal – first place" width="16" /></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1958</span></span></td><td style="text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><b>Hashim Khan</b> (Pashto: ہاشم خان; c. 1910 to 1914 – 18 August 2014) was a squash player from Pakistan. He won the British Open Squash Championships (the then de facto world championship) a total of seven times, from 1951 to 1956, and then again in 1958.<br />Personal life<br />Khan had a total of 12 children. His eldest son Sharif Khan became a player on the North American hardball squash circuit in the 1970s, winning a record 12 North American Open titles. Six other sons – Aziz, Gulmast, Liaqat Ali ("Charlie"), Salim ("Sam"), Shaukat, and Mo – also became hardball squash players.</span><br />
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<tr bgcolor="#c7dcf6"><td colspan="3"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wins (7)</span></b></td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#efefef"><td><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Year</span></b></td><td><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Opponent in final</span></b></td><td><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Score in final</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1951</span></td><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mahmoud Karim</span></td><td><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9–5, 9–0, 9–0</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1952</span></td><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mahmoud Karim</span></td><td><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9–5, 9–7, 9–0</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1953</span></td><td><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">R.B.R. Wilson</span></td><td><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9–2, 8–10, 9–1, 9–0</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1954</span></td><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Azam Khan</span></td><td><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">6–9, 9–6, 9–6, 7–9, 9–5</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1955</span></td><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Azam Khan</span></td><td><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9–7, 7–9, 9–7, 5–9, 9–7</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1956</span></td><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Roshan Khan</span></td><td><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9–4, 9–2, 5–9, 9–5</span></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1958</span></td><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Azam Khan</span></td><td><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9–7, 6–9, 9–6, 9–7</span></td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#c7dcf6"><td colspan="3"><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Runners-up (1)</span></b></td></tr>
<tr bgcolor="#efefef"><td><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Year</span></b></td><td><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Opponent in final</span></b></td><td><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Score in final</span></b></td></tr>
<tr><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1957</span></td><td><span style="background: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Roshan Khan</span></td><td><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">6–9, 9–5, 9–2, 9–1</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b><u>Death</u></b><br />On 18 August 2014, Khan died in his home in Aurora, Colorado due to congestive heart failure. He was widely believed to be 100 years old.</span>Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-55903698848696324002018-09-15T09:35:00.005+05:002018-09-15T09:35:54.404+05:00Hamidullah Khan<table class="infobox vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody>
<tr><th class="fn" colspan="2" style="background-color: #ccbbee; font-size: 15.4px; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hamidullah Khan</span></th></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nawab Hamidullah Khan, Last Ruler of Bhopal</span></div>
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<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: #e4dcf6; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Nawab of Bhopal</span></span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reign</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">20 April 1926 – 1 June 1949</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Coronation</span></span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9 June 1926</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Predecessor</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kaikhusrau Jahan</span></span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Successor</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Monarchy abolished, <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Bhopal State</span> created.</span></td></tr>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color: #e4dcf6; text-align: center; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Titular Nawab of Bhopal</span></span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pretendence</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1 June 1949 – 4 February 1960</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Successor</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Sajida Sultan</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Born</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">9 September 1894</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Died</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4 February 1960 (aged 65)</span></td></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mother</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Kaikhusrau Jahan</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hajji Nawab Hafiz Sir Hamidullah Khan (9 September 1894 – 4 February 1960) was the last ruling Nawab of Bhopal, which merged with the state of Madhya Pradesh in 1956. He ruled from 1926 when his mother, Begum Kaikhusrau Jahan Begum, abdicated in his favor, until 1949 and held the honorific title until his death in 1960. A delegate to the Round Table Conference in London, he served as Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes from 1944–1947, when India became independent. During the Second World War, Nawab Hamidullah Khan was present at the Battle of Keren and the Battle of El Alamein. Nawab Hamidullah, as he was popularly known was very close to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan. He also had very good terms with Louis Mountbatten, Viceroy and Governor General of India. In spite of pressure from Jinnah, he reluctantly agreed to have Bhopal as a part of Indian Union.At his death, he left no sons and so was succeeded by his second daughter, Sajida Sultan, Begum of Bhopal.</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>Persnol Life</u></b></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Nawab Hamidullah Khan attended MAO college (now Aligarh Muslim University) and graduated in 1905.<br />On 5 September 1925 at Peshawar, Nawab Hamidullah Khan married Maimoona Sultan Shah Banu Begum Sahiba (1900–1982), the great-great-granddaughter of Shah Shuja of Afghanistan. The couple had three daughters:<br />1. Suraya Jah, Nawab Gowhar-i-Taj, Abida Sultan Begum Sahiba<br />2. HH Sikander Saulat, Iftikhar ul-Mulk, Nawab Mehr-i-Taj Sajida Sultan Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Dar ul-Iqbal-i-Bhopal<br />3. Nawabzadi Qamar-i-Taj Dulhan Rabia Sultan Begum Sahiba (1916–2001). Married twice and had one son and one daughter.<br />In 1947, he married Aftab Jahan Begum Sahiba (1919–2002), the daughter of a Bhopali Muslim Local Family. The couple had one daughter:<br />4. Farzana Begum Sahiba (1948)<br />He remained the Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University from September 1930 to April 1935.</span>Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-23210677088442885932018-09-15T09:31:00.003+05:002018-09-15T10:04:18.984+05:00Shiekh Hamid Lodhi<a href="https://d1k5w7mbrh6vq5.cloudfront.net/images/cache/c0/1a/de/c01adefb390f8d02f6cf5cc5a0a492de.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://d1k5w7mbrh6vq5.cloudfront.net/images/cache/c0/1a/de/c01adefb390f8d02f6cf5cc5a0a492de.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">Sheikh Hamid Khan Lodi was the founder of Lodhi Dynasty of Multan. He ruled from 961 to 999 A.D. He was an Afghan chieftain and belonged to Lodi tribe. He was Ismaeli by faith.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><br />In the middle of the 11th century A.D. Amir subuktageen and his son Sultan Mahmud were building the Ghaznavid empire spreading from Bost to Ghazni, Laghman, Nangarhar and the lands as far as the banks of the Indus river which were ruled by the Kabul Shah dynasty.<br />Their winter capital was at what is now Attock near the banks of the Indus, 28 miles east of Peshawar. The southern part of this region, the foothills of the Suleiman mountains extending to Multan, were ruled by a separate family of kings. This dynasty was started by Sheikh Hamid Lodhi. He was a contemporary of Alaptageen, he and his son, Amir Subuktageen, were the founders of the Ghaznavid empire. He ruled from 961 to 999 A.D.<br />Both Arab and non-Arab historians have mentioned these rules of Multan but the documents available have little information about them. Historians dealing with the events of the time Subuktageen and Mahmud mention some of these rulers. The oldest source is Zaien-al-Akhbar by Abdul Hai bin Zohak Gardezi who wrote around 1068 A.D. Gardezi states: “In 1010 A.D. Sultan Mahmud captured Daud bin Nasr, the ruler of Multan and brought him to Ghazni. He was imprisoned until his death in Ghorak, 30 miles southwest of Kandahar.”<br />Arab historians like Ibn-e Aisar and Ibn-e Khaldan write about the confrontation of Sultan Mahmud with Abul Futuh Daud, a Lodhi ruler in 1005 A.D. Daud was defeated in the battle and paid a fine of 20,000 dirhams to the Sultan.<br />A historian of the Moghul period, Mohammad Qasem Fereshta, writes that Sheikh Hamid was an Afghan belonging to the Lodhi tribe. He ruled over Laghman and Multan at the time of Gewapal, a Kabul Shah king. He aided the Shah in his battles against Subuktageen, but when the ruler descended on the throne of Ghazni, the Multan ruler made peace with Subuktageen.<br />In 1004 A.D. when Sultan Mahmud captured Multan during his second raid the ruler of this family was Abul Futuh Daud the grandson of Sheikh Hamid. Daud was said to be a follower of the Ismaeli and Karmat sects. in 1010 A.D. the family was vanquished by Sultan Mahmud and from then on Multan was a state of Ghazni.<br />Historians of the East and West, after Qasem Fereshta, also record the story of Sheikh Hamid and say his family belonged to the Lodhi tribe. In the 15th century this family once again formed a mighty empire, this time in Delhi. The ruler was Sultan Bahlol bin Malik Kala from Multan.<br />The family of Sheikh Hamid is not well known in Indian history and since Fereshta, as usual, has not stated his references, later historians have not accepted his statement that Sheikh Hamid was an Afghan. Sayed Suleiman Nadwi, the Indian historian, says in his book on Indo-Arab Relations which was plublished in 1931, the Lodhi descended from Jalm bin Sheiban, an Arab ruler and a native of Sind.<br />In 1944 I discovered the book Pata Khazana (Hidden Treasure) which gives some valuable information about this family. The text of this important document supports the theory that Sheikh Hamid and his family were Afghans and their mother tongue was Pashto. The book includes and exchange of poetry between the rulers. We do not have any information about these poets from other sources.<br />The publication of Pata Khazana and the articles which I wrote in Urdu language for some magazines in Lahore attracted the attention of Indian and Pakistani scholars. In 1951, I met Sayed Suleiman Nadwi and he asked me what Pata Khazana states about the Lodhis of Multan. After hearing a brief account of what the book says about this family, the late historian commented: “Mohammad Qasem Fereshta was not in the habit of mentioning his sources. It is possible that the Moghul historian had seen this book. While I was writing Indo-Arab Relations I did not know of this document. The Pashto poetry by members of this family in Pata Khazana affirms they were Afghans and not Arabs.”<br />Nadwi then brought into discussion the word “sheikh” which has been used with the names of Hamid and other members of this family and said that it is usually used in Arabic. To show that the work is not alien to Afghan names I gave examples like Sheikh Mati, a chief of the Ghoryakhel tribe, Sheikh Mali Yusufzai, Sheikh Qasem Suleimani, and others.<br />In any case it appears that the family of Sheikh Hamid is the first exponent of Afghan culture and language in Multan which for one century ruled over this land and spread Islam to the Indian sub-continent. By 1450 A.D. Malik Bahlol brought this family to power for the second time in the Indian sub-continent.<br />Gardezi in Zaien-al-Akhbar says that with the defeat of Abul Futuh Daud the reign of this family came to an end. Fakhr Mudabir in Adab-al-Harb, written during the Ghorid rule in the 13th century, says the Sheikh, son of Daud, in 1040 A.D. rose against Sultan Mahmud. The Sultan sent an army under the command of Ahmad Hajib to Multan. When the army reached Multan, the Sheikh fled and took asylum in Mansura, capital of Sind and the Ghaznavid army took control of Multan. That is the last we know of this family.<br /><br /><b>Some of the prominent rulers of this family are:</b></span><br />
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<li>Sheikh Hamid Lodhi, circa 980 A.D.</li>
<li>Sheikh Razi, nephew of Hamid, circa 980 A.D.</li>
<li>Abul Futuh Daud bin Nasr, circa 1004 A.D.</li>
<li>Sheikh bin Daud, circa 1040 A.D.</li>
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<br /> </span>Fawad Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12456559222593254947noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4327530819122123203.post-859389299205094022018-09-15T09:26:00.000+05:002018-09-15T09:26:04.695+05:00Haibat Khan Niazi<table class="infobox biography vcard" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-spacing: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); clear: right; color: black; float: right; font-size: 12.32px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0.5em 0px 0.5em 1em; padding: 0.2em; width: 22em;"><tbody>
<tr><th colspan="2" style="vertical-align: top;"><span class="fn"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDGIzCnDKq5coJR-kMXRDlmMpOteCMyISl4xz2pmNlS0gRsjgdVGt703dqb30sWFaoDWGx6Jzi6TP7M7IZWsVj-pISiWTBlcXjCDtD2VEM-xv-xAc4szaysBF-Ot0dcYZe980CO0HCIaNY/s1600/General_A._A._Niazi.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDGIzCnDKq5coJR-kMXRDlmMpOteCMyISl4xz2pmNlS0gRsjgdVGt703dqb30sWFaoDWGx6Jzi6TP7M7IZWsVj-pISiWTBlcXjCDtD2VEM-xv-xAc4szaysBF-Ot0dcYZe980CO0HCIaNY/s200/General_A._A._Niazi.jpg" width="130" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 15.4px;">Haibat Khan Niazi</span></span></th></tr>
<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Died</span></th><td style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">16th Century<br /><span class="deathplace">Punjab</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><th scope="row" style="text-align: left; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Other names</span></th><td class="nickname" style="vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Azam Hamayan</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Haibat Khan Niazi</b> was a Pashtun noble and military leader. He was the most powerful noble of Sher Shah Suri and Commander of the Niazi contingent of his army. He is best known for bringing law and order in Multan by destroying the power of Balochs and Fetah Khan Jat who were laying waste to entire South Punjab. Sher Shah Suri granted him the title of Azam Hamayun and appointed him governor of Maharashtra. Currently, the sub-clans of Gen. Haybat Khan Niazi known as Bhumbra’s, residing mainly in Isakhel;Mianwali, Jaranwala;Faisalabad, Kamalia; Faisalabad (Pakistan) and overseas.</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /><b><u>Conquest of Kashmir, Multan and Sindh</u></b><br />Sher Shah Suri ordered Khan to conquer Kashmir, Multan and Sindh in present-day Pakistan. Haibat Khan first conquered Kashmir and installed the Chak dynasty. The conquest of Multan and Sindh and the restoration of law and order was completed by November, 1543.</span></div>
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