for the town in Afghanistan see Niazi, Afghanistan

Major ethnic groups of Pakistan (1980); Pashtun in green.

North-West Frontier Province and region

Niazi (Urdu: نیازی) is a Pashtun tribe, a subgroup of the Ghilzai Pashtuns of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The word Niazi is derived from the word Niazai like the other forms of Pashtun tribes, such as Yusafzai and Orakzai. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 625 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,014 × 972 pixels, file size: 166 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 625 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,014 × 972 pixels, file size: 166 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) (Urdu: Å›imāl maÄ¡ribÄ« sarhadÄ« sÅ«ba شمال مغربی سرحدی صوبہ) is the smallest of the four main provinces of Pakistan. ... Urdu ( , , trans. ... The Pashtuns (also Pushtun, Pakhtun, ethnic Afghan, or Pathan) are an ethno-linguistic group consisting mainly of eastern Iranian stock living primarily in eastern and southern Afghanistan, and the North West Frontier Province, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Baluchistan provinces of Pakistan. ... The Ghilzais (also known as Khiljis or Ghaljis) are one of two largest groups of Pashtuns, along with the Durrani tribe, found in Afghanistan with a large group also found in neighboring Pakistan. ... The Yusafzai are a large group of Pathan tribes, originally immigrants from the neighborhood of Kandahar, now a province of Afghanistan, which includes those of the Black Mountain, the Bunerwals, the Swatis, the people of Dir and the Panjkora valley, and also the inhabitants of the Yusafzai plain in Peshawar... Response International, United Kingdom has recently about to initiate training workshops on Child Health promotion in Orakzai Agency. ...

The history of the Pashtuns is ancient, and much of it has yet to be fully researched. 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, most modern authorities have found this oral tradition to be inconsistent. Ghilzais are reputed to be descended from the Turko-Mongolic Khiljis and Tajiks, as well as the numerous other invaders from Central Asia and the Middle East who have entered 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. Aryan (/eərjən/ or /ɑːrjən/, Sanskrit: ) is a Sanskrit and Avestan word meaning noble/spiritual one. ... A girl in rural Iran. ... The Indo-Aryans are a wide collection of peoples united by their common status as speakers of the Indo-Aryan (Indic/Indian) branch of the family of Indo-European and Indo-Iranian languages. ... Median Empire, ca. ... The Persians of Iran (officially named Persia by West until 1935 while still referred to as Persia by some) are an Iranian people who speak Persian (locally named Fârsi by native speakers) and often refer to themselves as ethnic Iranians as well. ... The Mauryan empire (321 to 185 BCE), at its largest extent around 230 BCE. The Mauryan Empire was Indias first great unified empire. ... The Scythians (, also ) or Scyths ([1]; from Greek ), a nation of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists who spoke an Iranian language[2], dominated the Pontic steppe throughout Classical Antiquity. ... Boundary of the Kushan empire, c. ... The Hephthalites, also known as White Huns, were a nomadic people who lived across northern China, Central Asia, and northern India in the fourth through sixth centuries. ... Languages Arabic other minority languages Religions Predominantly Sunni Islam, as well as Shia Islam, Greek Orthodoxy, Greek Catholicism, Roman Catholicism, Alawite Islam, Druzism, Ibadi Islam, and Judaism Footnotes a Mainly in Antakya. ... // Turks and Turkish may refer to: Ethnic Turks Citizens or residents of Turkey in historical contexts, all Turkic peoples collectively Turk one of any of the peoples speaking any of the Turkic languages Turkic peoples A native or inhabitant of Turkey, or a member of Turkic speaking minorities in neighboring... For other uses, see Mongols (disambiguation). ... The theory that the Pashtun people originate from the exiled Lost Tribes of Israel was widely held as recently as the 19th century. ... The Ghilzais (also known as Khiljis or Ghaljis) are one of two largest groups of Pashtuns, along with the Durrani tribe, found in Afghanistan with a large group also found in neighboring Pakistan. ... Khilji or Khalji was a ruling dynasty of Turkic origin that conquered and ruled northern India (1290-1320). ... Languages Persian Religions Islam (predominantly Sunni (Hanafi), with Shia (Twelver and Ismaili) minorities) Tājik (Persian: ; UniPers: Tâjik; Tajik: ) is a term generally applied to Persian-speaking peoples of Iranian origin living east and northeast of present-day Iran. ... Map of Central Asia showing three sets of possible boundaries for the region Central Asia located as a region of the world Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Ghowr province (sometimes spelled Ghor) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Mahmud and Ayaz The Sultan is to the right, shaking the hand of the sheykh, with Ayaz standing behind him. ...

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, Lodhi, and Sherwani pathans. The Ghilzai were the most prominent of all the Afghan tribes till the rise of the Durrani power, while the Lodhi section gave to Delhi the Lodhi and Suri dynasties. To the Ghilzai and Lodhi, 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'. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For the cricketer from the West Indies, see Imran Khan (Trinidad and Tobago cricketer). ... Location of Dera Ismail Khan District (highlighted in red) within the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. ... Qais Abdur Rashid is thought, among Pashtuns, to be the first Pashtun who traveled to Mecca and Madina during the early days of Islam. ... For other uses of this term see: Persia (disambiguation) The Persian Empire is the name used to refer to a number of historic dynasties that have ruled the country of Persia (Iran). ... Ghauri or Ghori (Persian: غوری) can refer to: A resident of Ghaur province in Afghanistan. ... Lodhi (also sometimes Lodi) is a Pashtun tribe, most likely a sub-group of the larger Ghilzai of Afghanistan and Pakistan who were part of a wave of Pashtuns who pushed east into what is today Pakistan and India. ... It has been suggested that Sarwani pashtun tribe be merged into this article or section. ... DurrānÄ« (Persian: ) or AbdālÄ« (Persian: ) is the name of a chief tribal confederation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ... Suri is a persian word and means red flower or fire-like flower. ... Pashto (پښتو; also known as Afghan, Pushto, Pashto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, and Pukhto) is the language spoken by the ethnic Afghan otherwise known as the Pashtun people who inhabit Afghanistan and the Western provinces of Pakistan. ...

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 Lodhi 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 Lodhi 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. The Indus is a river; the Indus River. ... About 8 million Jats live in the Indian state of Haryana. ... Coin of Muizzuddin Muhammad Bin Sam , circa 1173 AD - 1206 AD , Issued from Delhi following coin typology of Prithviraja. ... Ghazni is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... The Salt Range is a hill system in the Punjab region of India, deriving its name from its extensive deposits of rock-salt. ... Marwat مروت, a well known branch of Pashtun tribe, are the direct descendants of a Persian Prince Shah Hussain of the house of Ghor (Afghanistan) and Bibi Mato (Daughter of Sheikh Baittan). ... Location of Bannu District (highlighted in red) within the North West Frontier Province. ... Zāhir ud-Dīn Mohammad, commonly known as Bābur (February 14, 1483 – December 26, 1530) (Chaghatay/Persian: ; also spelled ), was a Muslim Emperor from Central Asia who founded the Mughal dynasty of India. ...

During the reign of the Lodhi 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 Subahdar of Lahore. In the early days of Akbar's reign the Lohani, another Lodhi 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 Lodhi 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. Subahdar was a title given to governors of provinces in the times of the Mughal dynasty, now bestowed upon native officers in the Indian army holding rank equivalent to an English captaincy. ...   (Urdu: لاہور, Punjabi: لہور, pronounced ) is the capital of the Punjab and is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Daulat Khel is a a sub-division of the Kakazai, Tarklanris, or Tarkanis/Mamund tribe of the Pathans located in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ... Kurram River (Urdu: دریائے کرم) is located in FATA area of Pakistan. ... Awan (Urdu: اعوان), a South Asian Zamindar tribe, putatively of Arab origin, living predominantly in western and central parts of Punjab, Pakistan. ... The location of Hazara relative to surrounding areas Gakhar (also Gakkhar or Ghakhar or Ghakkar) (Urdu: ) are an ancient aristocratic and warlike clan now located in Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Jhelum, Kashmir, Gilgit, Baltistan (Tibet), Chitral, and Khanpur (NWFP) regions in modern day Pakistan. ... See Ahmad Shah Qajar for the Persian ruler (1909-1925). ... Mianwali (Urdu: میانوالی,Hindi: मियांवाली) is the capital city of Mianwali District in the north-west of Punjab province, Pakistan. ... n ...

People

Niazis in Pakistan currently live mainly in Mianwali district of Punjab , Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Chakwal District, Mardan and Kohat. However, a large number of the Niazi tribe still lives in parts of Afghanistan, mainly in Qalaye Niazi, Gardez, Logar and Paktia province. A considerable number have also settled in Karachi and other major Pakistani cities such as Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar. Mianwali (Urdu: میانوالی,Hindi: मियांवाली) is the capital city of Mianwali District in the north-west of Punjab province, Pakistan. ... This article is about the Pakistani province. ... Location of Bannu District (highlighted in red) within the North West Frontier Province. ... Lakki Marwat was created as an administrative district on July 1st 1992. ... Chakwal (Urdu: چکوال) is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. ... Location of Mardan District (highlighted in yellow) within the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. ... Kohat (Urdu: کوہاٹ) is a medium sized town in North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. ... Qalaye Niazi (Niazi Fort) is a village located about 2. ... Gardez is the capital of Paktia province, Afghanistan. ... The Logar (also Lowgar) is a river and valley of Afghanistan. ... Paktia province is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. ... Not to be confused with Karachay-Cherkessia. ...   (Urdu: لاہور, Punjabi: لہور, pronounced ) is the capital of the Punjab and is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi. ... Location within Pakistan Coordinates: , Country Pakistan Province Constructed 1960s Union Council 40 UC (District Govt. ...   (Urdu: پشاور; Pashto: پښور) literally means City on the Frontier in Persian and is known as Pekhawar in Pashto. ...

Tribe members living in Afghanistan speak Pashto, as for the ones living in Pakistan have lost their ancestral language after crossing the Indus, and mostly speak the Mianwali form of Saraiki dialect which is influenced by Pashto and Hindko. Like other Pashtun tribes, Niazis observe a pre-Islamic honor code formally known as Pashtunwali. Pashto (پښتو; also known as Afghan, Pushto, Pashto, Pashtoe, Pashtu, and Pukhto) is the language spoken by the ethnic Afghan otherwise known as the Pashtun people who inhabit Afghanistan and the Western provinces of Pakistan. ... ... Hindko is an ancient language spoken in the Indian subcontinent. ... Pashtunwali (Pashto: ) is a concept of living for the Pashtun people (also known as Pathans), which dates back to pre-Islamic eras. ...

Niazis in Afghanistan And Pakistan

• Niazi, Ghazni, Populated Place, Long 68.44722, Lat 33.41
• Niazi, Ghazni, Populated Place, Long 68.42722, Lat 33.37528
• Niazi, Ghazni, Populated Place, Long 68.37306, Lat 33.465
• Niazi, Kabol, Populated Place, Long 69.21833, Lat 34.46889
• Niazi, Lowgar, Populated Place, Long 69.10833, Lat 33.7575
• Niazi, Lowgar, Populated Place, Long 69.1475, Lat 34.27278
• Niazi, Parvan, Populated Place, Long 69.22917, Lat 34.99278
• Niazi, Vardak, Populated Place, Long 68.68333, Lat 34.3
• Niazi, Paktika, Populated Place, Long 68.87028, Lat 33.37889
• Niazi, Paktika, Populated Place, Long 68.75167, Lat 33.1588
• Niazi, Kunduz, Populated place, Long
• Niazi, Mardan, Sawabi, N.W.F.P
• Niazai, Bannu, N.W.F.P
• Niazi, Mianwali, Punjab
• Niazi, Union Council Fazil & Ghulama, Kalurkot, Bhakkar, Punjab
• Niazi, Jaranwala, District Faislabad, Punjab
• Niazi, Katora, Khanewal, Punjab
• Niazi, Union Council Kot Gulla,Lawa. Tehsil Talagang District Chakwal , Punjab
• Kundi, Dera Ismail Khan, N.W.F.P
• Katti Khel, Tank, N.W.F.P

See also

• List of Niazi people