PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
This
branch/clan of the Tarin tribe came from Tarin Kot in Qandahar,
Afghanistan
during Durrani rule circa 1752. The chief at that time was the uncle of
King Ahmad Shah Durrani and he led a flank of Afghan cavalry (Risalah)
in the Third Battle of Panipat in 1761, in which the Marathas were
defeated
comprehensively. Later he was give the title of Sher Khan and
the
lands that he held for the Afghan Kingdom as Subedar previously, were
thereafter
conferred on him as a personal and semi-independant territory. After
independence
most of the family's property was forcibly seized during the Ayub
regime
in the 1960s. The family today is noted for its very active public and
social traditions which were set in place by Khan Abdel Salim Khan, and
continued by his descendants.
- Sardar BOSTAN KHAN Sher Khan,
- Sardar NADIR KHAN [Malik Darwesh]
- Sardar ILYAS KHAN [Malik Ilyas]
- Sardar MUHAMMAD KHAN, died sp.
- Sardar GHULAM AHMED KHAN (nephew)
- Sardar HABIB KHAN -/1888, Hakim-i-Hazara, Nawab of
Dheri
and Rais of
Talokar,
born 1833/1834, he initially supported the British against the Sikhs
but in 1868-69, when the British were making their new Permanent
Revenue Settlement for the Hazara area (completed in 1872), he objected
to the reduction of his property in favour of some other chiefs and
then rebelled against the newly instituted British Government from 1869
to 1878,
he was
caught, and remained imprisoned in exile, for some time, he was finally
released on parole, in 1884 and thereafter he remained engaged in
litigation against the Government for the last years of his life, and
did manage to get some of his claims back; he married and had issue. He
died in December 1888.
- Khan ABDEL MAJID KHAN (qv)
- Khan Abdel Rahim Khan, he served with the British Army
and died in Mesopotamia, in World War I (1917), and received a
posthumous I.D.S.M. (Indian Distinguished Services Medal).
- Khan ABDEL MAJID KHAN, Khan of Khangi 1888/1939, born
1877, he was made a
ward
of the government under the Court of Wards until he attained his
majority; educated privately under
English tutors and later
qualified
as a Barrister from Inns of Court, London; he served as a Senior
Magistrate,
Sessions Judge and M.L.A. for his area, married and had issue, three
sons. He died
September 1939.
- Khan Sahib ABDEL SALIM KHAN (qv)
- Col. Abdel Rashid Khan, he served with 5th Cavalry,
Pakistan Army; married and had issue, one son. He died 1969.
- Abdel Hamid Khan, married and had issue, two sons.
- Hafiez Khan, died young sp.
- Waheed Khan, died young sp.
- Khan Sahib ABDEL SALIM KHAN 1939/1957, born 1907; a
progressive thinker, he understood that a major change was afoot and
he changed the family’s role accordingly, he believed that service,
i.e. public service, was where
old families had a role to play in modern Pakistan. He himself served
as Pakistan’s High Commissioner/Ambassador in several countries,
including Afghanistan, Ceylon (Sri Lanka, Pakistan's first Ambassador
there),
Japan (he set up the Pakistan embassy there) and, as his last posting
at the time of his death, Deputy High Commissioner in Britain (1957).
He also undertook a number of charitable initiatives in his native
area, including setting up a Boys School (primary to high school to
serve 5 villages), a vocational college for men, two wards in the
district hospital and also, a well-known agricultural research station
for the development and improvement of farming and livestock; he
married
Mahmooda Salim Khan, born 1913, died 2007, daughter of Capt. Sardar Sir
Sikandar Hayat Khan, K.C.S.I. of the Wah family, and his first wife,
Zubaida Khatun, and had issue, two
sons. He died 1957.
- Khan Sahib JAVED SALIM KHAN (qv)
- Zahid Salim Khan, born 1945, married Mrs. Anne Morrison
of Virginia, U.S.A., and had issue, three sons and one daughter. He
died 2002.
- Christopher Salim Khan (U.S.A.)
- Robert Salim Khan (U.S.A.)
- Timothy Salim Khan (U.S.A.)
- Elizabeth Salim Khan [Mrs. Elizabeth Whitney-Flew],
presently working with the Asia Foundation, and also running several
small charitable concerns in the Northern Areas of Pakistan and Kashmir
with her husband; married Mr. B. Flew. (Pakistan)
- Khan Sahib JAVED SALIM KHAN 1957/1979, born 1939, educated
at the University of Cambridge, U.K. (Ph.D. Economics); Secretary of
the Frontier Provincial Planning Department, the Federal (Pakistan)
Planning Commission, the Pakistan Agricultural Development Board, and
Pakistan’s Representative to the F.A.O., Rome, Italy, and received
awards for his services there. He married Mrs. S. Javed Salim Khan,
born 1946, a prominent social worker of the area, and an M.P.
1988/1993; daughter of Brig. Sardar Azmat Hayat Khan of the Wah family;
and had
issue, three sons. He died 1979 in Rome (#1).
- Dr. Omer Salim Khan, born 1965, assists in running
various family charities and is also managing a small research centre. (Abbottabad,
Pakistan)
- Osman Salim Khan, born 1969.
- Abid Salim Khan, born 1971.
The help of Dr. Omer Salim Khan is gratefully
acknowledged, July 2008.
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