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==== Current Members of the National Assembly of Pakistan ====
==== Current Members of the National Assembly of Pakistan ====


*[[Humair Hayat Khan Niazi of Rokhri]]
*[[Humair Hayat Khan Niazi of Rokhri]]


==== Niazi's in Afghanistan ====
==== Niazi's in Afghanistan ====
*[[Ghulam Muhammad Niazi]], Founder of Jamiat-e-Islami Afghanistan.
*[[Ghulam Muhamictmad Niazi]], Founder of Jamiat-e-Islami Afghanistan.
*[[Nasima Niazi]]
*[[Nasima Niazi]]
==== Current Civil & session Judeges ====
* Sadat ullah khan niazi District and session judge.
* Arif khan niazi Wata khel Civil judge (Raheem yar khan).
* Arif khan niazi Civil judge (Bahkar).


==== Current members of the Provincial Assembly of Pakistan ====
==== Current members of the Provincial Assembly of Pakistan ====

Revision as of 20:28, 23 March 2010

Niazi (Pashto: نیازي) is a famous Pashtun tribe, a group of the Ghilzai Pashtuns, of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The word Niazi like the other forms of Pashtun tribes such as Yusafzai and Orakzai the word Niazi is dervied from "Nia-zai".

The history of the Pashtuns is ancient, and much of it has yet to be fully researched. In the Pashtun tribal hierarchy, the Niazi tribe is one of the most respected tribe. From the 2nd millennium BC to the present, Pashtun regions have seen invasions and migrations including Aryan tribes (Iranian peoples, Indo-Aryans), Medes, Persians, Mauryas, Scythians, Kushans, Hephthalites, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, and Mongols. There are many conflicting theories about the origins of the Pashtun people, some modern and others archaic, both among historians and the Pashtuns themselves. Some anthropologists lend credence to the theory of Pashtun descent from Israelites, however, other modern authorities have found this oral tradition to be inconsistent. Ghilzais are reputed to be descended from the numerous invaders from Central Asia and Middle East who have entered India and Afghanistan over the centuries. Their name being another form of Khitali the Turkish word for 'swords man' who early settled, perhaps as mercenaries rather than as a corporate tribe, in the Siah-band range of the Ghor mountains. They first rose into notice in the time of Mahmud of Ghazni when they accompanied in his invasions of India.

History

Imran Khan Niazi: Pakistani cricketer and politician

The tribes of the Dera Ismail Khan district and the surrounding areas belong almost exclusively to the lineage of Sheikh Baitan, third son of Qais Abdur Rashid. His descendents are known as Bitanni. In the early part of the 8th century, when Baitan was living in his original home on the western slopes of the Ghor mountains, prince Shah Husain of Persia, a descendant of the Ghori kings, flying before the Arab invaders took refuge with him, and married his daughter Bibi Matto. From him are descended the Matti section of the nation, which embraces the Ghilzai, Lodi, and Sherwani pathans. The Ghilzai were the most prominent of all the Afghan tribes till the rise of the Durrani power, while the Lodi section gave to Delhi the Lodi and Suri dynasties. To the Ghilzai and Lodi, and especially to the former, being almost all the tribes of warrior traders who are included under the term Pawindah, from parwindah, the Persian word for a bale of goods, or perhaps more probably, from the same root as powal, a Pashto word for 'to graze'.

It is not to be wondered that these warlike tribes cast covetous eyes on the plains of Indus, held as they were by a Jat population. Early in the 13th century, about the time of Shahab ud-Din Ghori, the Prangi and Suri tribes of the Lodi branch, with their kinsmen the Sherwani, settled in the northern part of the district immediately under the Sulaimans, the Prangi and the Suri holding Tank and Rori, while the Sherwani settled south of the Luni in Draban and Chandwan. In the early part of the 15th century the Niazi, another Lodi tribe, followed their kinsmen from Shalgar (Ghazni) into Tank, where they lived quietly as Pawindahs for nearly a century, when they crossed the trans-Indus Salt Range and settled in the country now held by the Marwat in the south of the Bannu district, then almost uninhabited save by a sprinkling of pastoral Jats, where Babur mentioned them as cultivators in 1505.

During the reign of the Lodi and Suri sultans of Delhi, the Prangi and Suri tribes from which these dynasties sprang, and their neighbors the Niazi, seem to have migrated almost bodily from Afghanistan into Pakistan, where the Niazi rose to considerable power, one of their being the Governor of Lahore. In the early days of Akbar's reign the Lohani, another Lodi tribe, who had been expelled by the Sulaiman Khel Ghilzai from their homes in Katawaz in the Ghazni mountains, crossed the Sulaiman range, the other Lodi tribes were too weak to resist them; and they removed the remaining Prangi and Suri from the Tank. The Lohani are divided into four subtribes, the Marwat, Daulat Khel, Mian Khel and Tator. About the beginning of the 17th century the Daulat Khel quaralled with the Marwats and the Mian Khel and drove them out of Tank. The Marwats moved northwards across the Salt Range and drove the Niazi eastwards across the Kurram and Salt Range into Isa Khel and the banks of the Indus, where they found a mixed Awan and Jat population whom they expelled. Their ancestor Niazai had three sons, Bahai, Jamal and Khaku. The descendents of the first are no longer distinguishable; while the Isa Khel among the Jamal, and the Mushani and Sarhang clans among the Khaku, have overshadowed the other clans and given their names to the most important existing divisions of the tribe. The Isa Khel took root in the south of their new country and shortly developed into agriculturists; the second settled farther to the north round about Kamar Mushani, and seem for a time to have led a pastoral life; while the majority of the Sarhangs, after drifting about for several generations, permanently established themselves across Indus, on the destruction of the Gakhar stronghold of Muazam Nagar by one of Ahmad Shah's lieutenants. That event occurred about 1748, and with it terminated the long connection of the Gakhars with Mianwali. They seem to have been dominant in the northern parts of the country even before the Emperor Akbar presented it in jagir to two of their chiefs. During the civil commotions of Jahangir's reign, the Niazi are said to have driven the Gakhars across the Salt Range, and though in the following reign the latter recovered their position, still their hold on the country was precarious, and came to an end about the middle of the nineteenth century. The Niazi established themselves in Isa Khel about 270 years ago, but their Sarhang branch did not finally obtain its present possessions in Mianwali until nearly 150 years later. The acquisition of their cis-Indus possessions was necessarily gradual, the country having a settled though weak government, and being inhabited by Awans and Jats.

People

A considerable number of Niazi's have settled in major Pakistani cities of Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore and Rawalpindi. However, other Niazi's still live in parts of NWFP province and Qalaye Niazi, Gardez, Logar, Laghman, Ghazni, kunduz and Paktia province of Afghanistan. Also, there is a less scattered population of Niazi people in India. Like other Pashtun tribes, Niazis strongly observe a pre-Islamic honor code formally known as Pashtunwali.

List of Niazi people

The Niazi tribe has produced some of the most famous people of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Former members of the National Assembly/Punjab/Sind Assembly of Pakistan

Current Members of the National Assembly of Pakistan

Niazi's in Afghanistan

Current Civil & session Judeges

  • Sadat ullah khan niazi District and session judge.
  • Arif khan niazi Wata khel Civil judge (Raheem yar khan).
  • Arif khan niazi Civil judge (Bahkar).

Current members of the Provincial Assembly of Pakistan

Notable Police Officers=

  • SP(Retired)Khan Ikhlass Khan Niazi (from daud khel)....He was brave and honest police officer who arrested the Nawab Akber Bugti.
  • DSP Ikram ullah khan Niazi (Shaheed).
  • IG(Retired)Habib ullah khan niazi.
  • DIG Rehmat ullah khan niazi of daud khel.He is son of Sp khan Ikhlass khan niazi.
  • IG Salahudin khan niazi.
  • SSP Sana ullah khan niazi commdant Elite Force.

= Notable military personnel

  • Muhammad Akram khan Niazi of Daud khel martyred in 1965 war on Barki sector and Pakistan army founded his died body from Indian soul..He fought with enemy bravely in their territory and got shahadaat.
  • Maj General(Retired) Anyat ullah khan niazi
  • Maj General Javid Sultan khan niazi (SHAHEED)
  • Col Munsif khan niazi of Rohkari was a great personality of Niazi tribe.He is not more in this world.
  • Brgadier Sana Ullah khan niazi Of Daud Khel

Sportspeople

Language

Tribe members living in Afghanistan speak Pashto, as do those inhabiting the districts of Hangu, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Kohat, Swabi and Mardan in the NWFP. Some families living in Mianwali also speak Pashto. However, those living east of Kohat and in Punjab have not retained their ancestral language and mostly speak hindko like but not saraiki which is influenced by Pashto and Sindhi.

Niazi-inhabited places in Pakistan and Afghanistan

  • Ghazni, Long 68.42722, Lat 33.37528
  • Qalaye Niazi
  • Kabol, Long 69.21833, Lat 34.46889
  • Logar, Long 69.10833, Lat 33.7575
  • Parwan, Long 69.22917, Lat 34.99278
  • Wardak, Long 68.68333, Lat 34.3
  • Paktika, Long 68.87028, Lat 33.37889
  • Kohat, NWFP, Pakistan
  • Mardan, Sawabi, NWFP
  • Hangu, NWFP
  • Bannu, N.W.F.P
  • Katti Khel, Tank, N.W.F.P
  • District Mianwali, Punjab, Pakistan
  • Basti Boher Multan , Punjab
  • Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab
  • Union Council Fazil & Ghulama, Kalurkot, Bhakkar, Punjab
  • Jaranwala, District Faislabad, Punjab
  • Katora, Khanewal, Punjab
  • Union Council Kot Gulla,Lawa. Tehsil Talagang District Chakwal , Punjab
  • Pishin bazar, Balochistan, Pakistan

References

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