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Askani (also known as ''Ashkani'') is a Baloch tribe from Balochistan known as Baloch. They are also found in Balochistan, Pakistan.
People
* Akbar Askani *Liaquat Ali Askani
Liaquat Ali Askani is a Pakistani politician who has been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh since August 2018.
Political career
He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of Sindh as a candidate of Pakistan Peoples Party from Constitu ...
Name
The Ferdowsi poem says that the army of Ashkash was from the wanderers of the Koch and Baloch, intent on war, with exalted cockscomb crest, whose back none in the world ever saw. In ancient times, Ashkan (Ashk) was the Persian name for the Parthian Kings.
In History
*Ref. Tabari, specifying Ašk as founder of the Aškānī dynasty, makes him son of Aškān the Great and a descendant of Kay - Abībēh, the son of Kay Qobād. *Ref. Tedesco identifiedParthian Parthian may be:
Historical
* A demonym "of Parthia", a region of north-eastern of Greater Iran
* Parthian Empire (247 BC – 224 AD)
* Parthian language, a now-extinct Middle Iranian language
* Parthian shot, an archery skill famously employed by ...
(Askani ) as dialect belonging to the Baluchi -Caspian group in the [Zagros hills ( Media Greater ) rather than Alburz hills ( Media Raghae ).
*Ref. The Aškāni (Arsacid ) rulers in Ferdawsi 's Shāhnāma. It is 277 verses long in the Moscow edition out of the 777 rhyming couplets devoted to the Aškāni dynasty as a whole ( i . e . , it extends to more than one - third of the chapter ).
*Ref. D.R. Shifiq in his , ' History of the Iranian Literature ' , writes that the word ' Pahlavi originates from Parzav , an Arsacid tribe ( akin to the Baloch tribe Puzz ).
*Ref. T.Kingsmill seems to be the first scholar of ancient China to suggest that An - shi was first used to refer to the Ashkani ( Arsacid ) emperors.
See also
*Baloch people *Askin, Iran *AsaakReferences
Social groups of Pakistan Baloch tribes Pakistani names Balochi-language surnames {{Pakistan-ethno-stub