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Ormur Jónsson í Klofa
The Ormur (), also called Burki or Baraki (), are an Eastern Iranic people and Pashtun tribe mainly living in Baraki Barak, in the Logar province of Afghanistan and in Kaniguram, in the South Waziristan district of Pakistan. Background The Pashtun warrior-poet Pir Roshan, born in 1525 in Jalandhar, India, belonged to the Ormur tribe. He moved with his family to their ancestral homeland of Kaniguram in Waziristan, from where he led the Roshani movement against the Mughal Empire. Language and demographics Ormuri is the first language of the Ormurs living in Kaniguram and its vicinity in South Waziristan; today, all are bilingual in the local Pashto dialect of Waziristani (Maseedwola). They are also found in Baraki Barak in Logar and in the outskirts of Ghazni in Afghanistan. However, Pashto and Dari have replaced Ormuri language there. Notable people * Malik Haji Muhammad Qarib Burki * Malik Irfan Burki * Faqir of Ipi * Bilal Omer Khan * Imran Khan * Javed Burki * Ijaz Khan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iranian Peoples
Iranian peoples, or Iranic peoples, are the collective ethnolinguistic groups who are identified chiefly by their native usage of any of the Iranian languages, which are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages within the Indo-European languages, Indo-European language family. The Proto-Iranian language, Proto-Iranians are believed to have emerged as a separate branch of the Indo-Iranians in Central Asia around the mid-2nd millennium BC. At their peak of expansion in the mid-1st millennium BC, the territory of the Iranian peoples stretched across the entire Eurasian Steppe; from the Danube, Danubian Plains in the west to the Ordos Plateau in the east and the Iranian Plateau in the south.: "From the first millennium b.c., we have abundant historical, archaeological and linguistic sources for the location of the territory inhabited by the Iranian peoples. In this period the territory of the northern Iranians, they being equestrian nomads, extended over the whole zone of the ste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baraki Barak District
Baraki Barak District ( ; ) is situated in the western part of Logar Province, Afghanistan. It borders Wardak Province to the west and northwest, Puli Alam District to the north and east and Kharwar District, Kharwar and Charkh District, Charkh districts to the south. The district's population is around 101,000 (2006) with a majority of over 90% Ormur Pashtuns. The district centre is the town of Baraki Barak - the former provincial capital, located in the northern part of the district in the valley of the Logar River. Baraki Rajan is another important town of this district which lies 4 km away from the district centre. The district is named after the historical Ormur tribe, also locally known as ''Baraki''. Politics and security During the Soviet-Afghan War, the Soviet forces perpetrated the Baraki Barak massacre in September 1984. The Baraki Barak District Sub-Governor is Mohammad Rahim "Amin". Mr. Rahim replaced Yasin Lodin in January 2010 Mr. Rahim called the first Shu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wajid Ali Khan Burki
Wajid Ali Khan Burki (28 October 1900 – 17 January 1989) known as the ''Father of Medical Services in Pakistan'', was a distinguished ophthalmologist widely recognized as an expert in the field of eye care, agriculturist, diplomat, and author who was a three-star rank general of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps. He left a lasting legacy as the founder of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Pakistan), Armed Forces Pathological Laboratory, AFPGMI, Founding Chairman of the PM&DC, College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, CPSP, and the National Institute of Health, Islamabad, National Health Laboratories. Wajid had a reputation for the very competent management of the Pakistan Army Medical Corps. Furthermore, he was elected as the first president of the Ophthalmological Society of Pakistan in 1957 and played a key role in co-founding Islamabad, the new capital city. Wajid was further known for introducing Jersey cattle to Pakistan, setting up the first Wage Board for journal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humayun Zaman
Humayun Zaman Khan (31 January 1936 – 17 June 2019), was a Pakistani sportsman who took part in soccer, hockey, and cricket. He played first-class cricket from 1956 to 1971. He captained the cricket teams of Government College University, Lahore, in 1957 and Lahore Gymkhana Club until 1975. Early life Humayun Zaman Khan was born on 31 January 1936 in Jullundur into the renowned Burki Pashtun sports family. He was the eldest son of Khan Bahadur Mohammad Zaman Khan, who held the position of Post Master General, Punjab, in British India. Humayun's family produced notable cricket figures like Jahangir Khan and Baqa Jilani, and had a strong presence in various Olympic disciplines, especially hockey. Humayun's family built a seven-bedroom house in Lahore in 1940, becoming the second Muslim family in the Canal Bank area which is now known as Zaman Park. Humayun's father was an uncle of Iqbal Bano, Naima Khanum and Shaukat Khanum, who were the respective mothers of Javed Burki, Maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Raza (civil Servant)
Khan Ahmed Raza Khan (20 August 1910 — 21 December 1996), known as ''Aghajan'', was a Pakistani civil servant, hockey player, tennis player, football player, first-class cricketer, and colour holder of the Punjab University cricket team. Throughout his career, Khan held the positions of Extra Assistant Commissioner of Gujrat, Deputy Provincial Superintendent of Census Punjab & Bahawalpur state, Deputy Commissioner of Jhelum and Lahore, Deputy Rehabilitation Commissioner and Deputy Settlement Commissioner of Lahore, President Lahore District Volleyball Association, President District Football Association of Lahore, Vice President Lahore Zone Hockey Association, Secretary Lahore Division Cricket Association, President Central Zone Cycling Association and national selector on the Board of Control for Cricket in Pakistan. Early life Agha Ahmed Raza Khan was born on 20 August 1910 in Basti Nau, Jullundur, into a noble Burki Sunni Pashtun family originally from Kaniguram. His f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamshed Burki
Jamshed Burki (born 1 August 1936) is a Pakistani former military officer and retired Grade 22 District Management Group (DMG) civil servant. As the Interior Secretary of Pakistan, Burki was responsible for the hostage release from the Afghan Embassy during the 1994 Peshawar school bus hijacking. Alongside Lt. General Ghulam Malik, he ordered the assault on the three hostage takers resulting in their deaths. Jamshed first gained popularity while serving as the Home Secretary & Tribal Affairs Department North-West Frontier Province in the 1980s. In February 2009, he was invited to give a speech at the Pakistan Ex-Servicemen Association seminar on the Defence of Pakistan. Geoffrey Moorhouse in his book, ''To the Frontier: A Journey to the Khyber Pass'', recalled his initial meeting with Jamshed in the 1980s, depicting him as a "brisk, hatchet-faced man, friendly enough but at pains to indicate how very busy he was." In his autobiography, Jahan Zeb of Swat writes, "After the mer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ijaz Khan (cricketer)
Ijaz Hussain Khan (9 November 1938 — 27 June 2019), known as ''Jahaz Khan'', was a Pakistani former first-class cricketer who played for Lahore and Pakistan Railways between 1961/62 and 1973/74. Khan was described as ‘the finest off-break bowler, I faced in my entire career’ by his cousin Majid Khan, who was the leading Pakistan batsman of his era. Ijaz Khan could not convince the BCCP selectors in the 1960s, for national recognition. Instead it was his rivals, Haseeb Ahsan, Afaq Hussain, Salahuddin and his Railways colleague, Mohammad Nazir Jr who got the nod. He was employed with the Pakistan Railways from 1958 to 1980. Early life and family Born on 9 November 1938 in Basti Guzan Jullundur, Ijaz Hussain Khan was one of Fazal Hussain Khan's four sons. They hail from the Burki family who is deeply rooted in cricket. The family's cricketing lineage traces back to Mahmood Khan, the brother of Ijaz's maternal grandmother, who played for FC College in the 1897-98 peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javed Burki
Javed Burki (; born 8 May 1938) is a Pakistani former cricketer, government official, and businessman. Early life and family Burki received his early education from Saint Mary's Academy at Rawalpindi. He also played cricket while studying at Oxford University (1958–1960). Javed Burki is the son of General Wajid Ali Khan Burki (1900–1988). General Burki's sister-in-law, Shaukat Khanum (Burki), was the mother of Imran Khan, cricketer and a former Prime Minister of Pakistan. Another of Burki's cousins, Majid Khan (cricketer, born 1946), Majid Khan, also was Pakistan's cricket captain. Burki's brothers include Nausherwan Burki, a founding member of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Centre, and Jamshed Burki, a career civil servant who was the Interior Secretary of Pakistan, Interior Secretary. Career Cricket Burki played in 25 Test cricket, Test matches from 1960 to 1969, Captain (cricket), captaining Pakistan cricket team, Pakistan on its Pakistan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imran Khan
Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi (born 5 October 1952) is a Pakistani politician, philanthropist, and former cricketer who served as the 19th prime minister of Pakistan from August 2018 until April 2022. He was the founder of the political party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and its chairman from 1996 to 2023. Born in Lahore, Khan graduated from Keble College, Oxford. He began his international cricket career in a 1971 Test series against England. Khan learned reverse swing bowling from Sarfraz Nawaz and passed on this technique to Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis, who developed and popularised it in subsequent years. He was named one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1983. Khan is also credited with advancing the idea of neutral umpiring in cricket during his captaincy. Khan led Pakistan to its first-ever Test series victories in India and England during 1987. He was awarded the International Cricketer of the Year award in 1989. Playing until 1992, he captained the Pakist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bilal Omer Khan
Bilal Omer Khan (Pashto, Urdu:; 3 February 1954 – 4 December 2009) known affectionately as ''Billy'' was a two-star rank general in the Pakistan Army who died in the December 2009 Rawalpindi attack along with 39 others. He was posthumously awarded the Sitara-e-Basalat on Pakistan Day 2010. His cousin is the former Prime Minister Imran Khan. He held the positions of Director General Armoured Corps (Pakistan), Director General Plans and Operations at JS HQ (Pakistan), Commander 11th Infantry Division (PAK), Commander 10th Infantry Division, and Commander 111th Infantry Brigade. On 23 August 2005, as the GOC 10 Division, Bilal was the chief guest at the Pakistan Cricket Board and Pepsi National School Cricket Tournament, where Ibrahim Ali Bhai School Karachi competed against Government High School Nanakpura Peshawar. Early life and family Bilal Omar Khan was born on 3 February 1954 to a respected Burki Pashtun family. His father Omer Khan, was a retired Colonel in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faqir Of Ipi
Haji Mirzali Khan Wazir (), commonly known as the Faqir of Ipi (), was a tribal chief and adversary to the British Raj from North Waziristan in what is now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. After performing his ''Hajj'' pilgrimage in 1923, Mirzali Khan settled in Ipi, a village located near Mirali in north Waziristan, from where he started a campaign of guerrilla warfare against the British Empire. In 1938, he shifted from Ipi to Gurwek, a remote village in north Waziristan on the border with Afghanistan, where he propagated idea of an independent state, Pashtunistan, and continued his raids against the British, using bases in Afghanistan. He had the support of Nazi Germany in his warfare against British Raj. On 21 June 1947, the Faqir of Ipi, along with his allies including the Khudai Khidmatgars and members of the Provincial Assembly, declared the Bannu Resolution which demanded that the Pashtuns should be given a third choice to have an independent state of Pashtunistan. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malik Irfan Burki
Malik (; ; ; variously Romanized ''Mallik'', ''Melik'', ''Malka'', ''Malek'', ''Maleek'', ''Malick'', ''Mallick'', ''Melekh'') is the Semitic term translating to "king", recorded in East Semitic and Arabic, and as mlk in Northwest Semitic during the Late Bronze Age (e.g. Aramaic, Canaanite, Hebrew). Although the early forms of the name were to be found among the pre-Arab and pre-Islamic Semitic speakers of the Levant, Canaan, and Mesopotamia, it has since been adopted in various other, mainly but not exclusively Islamized or Arabized non-Semitic Asian languages for their ruling princes and to render kings elsewhere. It is also sometimes used in derived meanings. The female version of Malik is Malikah (; or its various spellings such as '' Malekeh'' or ''Melike''), meaning "queen". The name Malik was originally found among various pre-Arab and non-Muslim Semitic speakers such as the indigenous ethnic Assyrians of Iraq, Amorites, Jews, Arameans, Mandeans, other Syriac speak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
