Niazi
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Niazi (Script error: No such module "lang".; Script error: No such module "IPA"., Template:Langx), Niazai or Niyazai is one of the largest Pashtun tribes which resides in Afghanistan and northwestern part of Pakistan.[1][2]
Origin
The earliest work which provides the details about origin of Niazis is Makhzani-i-Afghani (1610 AD), written by Naimatullah under the patronage of Khan Jahan Lodi, an Afghan noble of Mughal emperor Jahangir. Makhzan-i Afghani gives the genealogy of Niazi tribe as:
Notable people with the surname
- Imran Khan, former prime minister of Pakistan.[1]
- Abdul Manan Niazi, former Taliban commander
- Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi, Pakistani politician and religious figure
- Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, Pakistani army general and former Military Governor of East Pakistan
- Amir Abdullah Khan Rokhri, Pakistani politician and activist
- Amjad Khan Niazi, Pakistani admiral
- Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi, Pakistani folk singer and politician
- Abdul Majeed Khan Niazi, Pakistani Politician
- Fazal Niazai, Afghan cricketer
- Gholam Mohammad Niazi, Afghan politician and religious figure
- Ghulam Akbar Khan Niazi, Pakistani-born Saudi Arabian physician
- Ghulam Hazrat Niazi, Afghan footballer
- Gul Hameed Khan Rokhri, Pakistani politician
- Haibat Khan Niazi, senior military commander of Sher Shah Sur, Governor of Lahore (1541–1549)
- Humair Hayat Khan Rokhri, Pakistani politician
- Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee, Pakistani academic and author
- Isa Khan Niazi, Afghan nobleman
- Karamat Rahman Niazi, Pakistani admiral
- Kausar Niazi, Pakistani politician and religious leader
- Misbah-ul-Haq Khan Niazi, Pakistani cricketer
- Muhammad Ayaz Niazi, Afghan Islamic scholar, khatib, and imam
- Munir Niazi, Pakistani poet
- Naheed Niazi, Pakistani playback singer
- Niyazi (Niyazi Zulfugar oghlu Taghizade Hajibeyov), Soviet and Azerbaijani conductor and composer
- Amil Niazi, Canadian writer
- Saifora Niazi, member of parliament of Afghanistan
- Saifullah Niazi, Pakistani politician
- Salma Niazi, Afghan journalist
- Shadab Khan, Pakistani cricketer
- Sher Afgan Niazi, Pakistani politician (MNA) during Benazir and Musharaf eras
See also
References
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