Marwat
The Marwats (Pashto: مروت) are a Pashtun tribe, a branch of the Lohani[1] Lodi confederacy, located primarily in Lakki Marwat District, Frontier Region Lakki Marwat, parts of DI Khan and some villages of Tank district, located in the south of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Across the Durand line, a smaller number of the Marwats are scattered in parts of Paktika and Ghazni provinces of Afghanistan. The Marwats are also known as Spin Lohani ("White Lohanis"), and are a cousin tribe of Sur, Niazi, Dotani, Kundi and Hotak. The Marwat are also related to the Ghilji, who are also a Bettani tribal confederacy like the Marwat and the Lodi. The Marwats were named for their ancestor Marwat.[2]
History
- See also Bannu
Marwats lived in Katawaz (کټواز, which is now called Zarghun Shar District) in the Paktika province and in the Tutki area(now Parachinar)[3] along the present Pak-Afghan border, from where they migrated in about 1500 CE,[4] after coming into dispute with the Sulaiman Khels. The Marwat migrated eastwards to Daman (present day Tank) and Pezu, Pakistan. The Marwat were settled in Daman during the Lodi period but many Marwats also participated in military conquests of the Sur Empire in India. Khawas Khan Marwat was a famous Marwat general from the Sur period. Eventually the Marwats migrated from Daman to their current location, the district of Lakki Marwat in the province of Khyber Pashtunkhwa.[5] There is a hill in Katawaz still called Marwati, named for the Marwat that formerly lived there.[6] Marwats were assigned parganas in Bihar by Lodhi Sultans.
Subtribes
- Dawar Khel
- Mehdad Khel
- ShahAlam Khel (clans; KAKAKhel AbaKHEL Matora *Khadarkhel (clans: Khawajikhel, Hajikhel, Nazarkhel)
- Bahram (clans: Tatterkhel, Ghaznikhel, Umer Khan Khel and Totazai; subclans: Tajazai, Dalkhozai, Landiwa, and Tapi)
- Meenakhel (clans: Hakeem khankhel and Muhammad Khan khel)
- Achukhel (clans: Begukhel, Isakkhel, Ahmadkhel etc.)
- Khadkhel (clans: Skanderkhel, Mamakhel etc.)
- Besides these the Suleman khel, Dallo Khel and Abbakhel Sayeds, Machinkhel, Sarhang Niazis and Mulakhel groups also live among the Marwats.[5][7]
- Lohani, from Lohana, clans: Adam (Zai), Bahram, Chando (Khel), Dallo (Khel), Khodo (Khel), Khwaedad (Khel), Mahander (Khel), Mama (Khel), Rajo (Khel), Skande (Khel), Salar, Tapi and Zangi mandra (khel).
Notable Marwats
- Khawas Khan Marwat, was a famous general of Sher Shah Suri.
- Irfanullah Khan Marwat, a politician based in Karachi. Member of the Sind Assembly and former Minister for transport, health, home, education and mines & mineral development.
- Khan Habibullah Khan was a justice of West Pakistan High Court, first Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, and briefly as acting President of Pakistan[4]
- Anwar Kamal Khan, former senator, Provincial Senior Minister and a former member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa[8]
- Anwar Saifullah Khan, a former DMG officer, Deputy Commissionar and Commissionar, currently a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and three times a federal minister.[9]
- Mir Nawaz Khan Marwat, a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a former federal minister
- Salim Saifullah Khan, currently a senator, and formerly a federal and provincial minister of KPK[9]
- Shah Nawaz Khan, a former Chief Justice of the Khyber Pakhtunhawa Province and a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, former Governor NWFP[4]
- Dil Jan Khan, a former Inspector General of Police and Secretary to the government of Pakistan. He also remained President International Narcotics Control Board at the United Nations.[10]
References
- ↑ "War Ballads of West Pakistan". The Pakistan Review (Ferozsons) 19: 10–11. 1971. ISSN 0031-0077.
- ↑ Mohmand, Sher Muhammad, The Marwats. p. 50-53
- ↑ Dr Syed Chiragh Hussain, Dood-e-Chiragh. (DI Khan. Ishrat Art Press. 1980). PP 31-34
- 1 2 3 Walsh, Declan (2010). "Arithmetic on the Frontier". In John Freeman. Granta 112: Pakistan. Granta Books. ISBN 9781905881536.
- 1 2 Akram Khan Marwat. Lakki Marwat. Khyber.ORG.
- ↑ Languages from Glued Ideas retrieved 10 June 2013
- ↑ Marwat Tribe from NPS.edu retrieved 10 June 2013
- ↑ "Honour among them". The Economist. 19 December 2006. Retrieved 23 June 2012.
- 1 2 Candidate extends support from Dawn.com retrieved 10 June 2013
- ↑ Tribe Elders to Decide on Candidate from Dawn.com retrieved 10 June 2013
Further reading
- Sher Zaman Taizi, Nara Zheba (The Virile Language), (Nowshera: Kamil Pukhto Adabi Jirgah).
- Olaf Caroe, The Pathans : 550 B.C. – A.D. 1957, (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1958). OCLC 32721857.
- Parvez Ahmad Khan, "The Bannu Valley (A Perspective)", Pakistan, vol. 15 & 16. (Pakistan Study Centre, University of Peshawar, 1987)
- Sher Mohammad Khan Mohmand, The Marwats, (Peshawar, 1999) OCLC 62341253
- Haroon Rashid, History of the Pathans (Vol. III). (Islamabad, 2002) OCLC 52853206
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