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 Marathhas 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-independent territory. After
independence most of the family's property was forcibly seized during the
Ayub regime in the 1960s. Area comprises of 62.2 Km2. 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.
TARIN, TOR BATEZAI (Afghan)
(title: Chief of Hazara Tarins, Khan of Dheri
and Rais of Talokar)
Sardar Bostan Khan
Sher Khan
Sardar Nadir Khan
[Malik Darwesh]
Sardar Ilyas Khan
[Malik Ilyas]
Sardar Gadai Khan
Sardar Najibullah
Khan
Sardar Muhammad
Khan
Sardar Ghulum
Ahmad Khan (nephew)
Sardar Habib Khan..........................................?
- Dec 1888
He was known as Hakim-i-Hazara,
Nawab of Dheri and Rais of Talokar. Born in 1833/1834, he initially
supported the British against the Sikhs but in 1868 to 1869, 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. He did manage to
get some of his claims back. He died in December 1888.
Known as Khan of Khangi,
was born in 1866. He was made a ward of the government, educated privately under English
tutors and later qualified as a Barrister from Inns of Court, London;
served as a Senior Magistrate, Sessions Judge and M.L.A. for his area.
Died in September 1839.
Khan Sahib Abdel Salim
Khan.........................Sep 1939 - 1957
Born in 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 died 1957.
Khan Sahib Javed Salim
Khan............................1957 - 1979
Born in 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. (served from 1988 to
1993); daughter of Brig. Sardar Azmat Hayat Khan of the Wah family and
had three sons; Omar (born: 1965) Osman (born: 1969) and Abid (born:
1971). Javed Salim Khan died in Rome in 1979. After his early passing,
the family set up the Javed Salim Khan Memorial Trust (JSKMT) in the
Hazara District, in collaboration with the FAO, and this is still very
active under his widows guidance. The Trust operates, in addition to
earlier family projects, a women’s school and college, a Mother-Child
Clinic and Hospital catering to 8 villages, a women’s vocational and
employment center, an educational and cultural/area research
institution, a number of village community projects and an environmental
preservation center. He elder son Dr. Omar Salim Khan, assists in
running various family charities and is also manages a small research
centre from Abbottabad, Pakistan.
