Mir Yar Beg Sahibzada was a

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n ruler who, in 1651 became chief of the

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tribes in Yaftal, as they had invited him to come to them from

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. However, two years later his dissatisfied subjects rebelled against him, built a fort at Lai Aba, and raised the Tajik Shah Imad (Qazi Arab's father-in-law) as their chief. Mir Yar Beg then retired to the court of

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via

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. At that time Shah Nasir was the ruler of Chitral. Both the ruling families of Badakhshan and Chitral had decades-long genial relationships. Shah Nasir Rais welcomed the ousted ruler of Badakhshan and his family members; elder son Qazi Arab; two years old grandson Qazi Arbab; and daughter-in-law (wife of Qazi Arab) in Chitral. Mir Yar Beg calculatingly left behind his son Qazi Arab and his family in Chitral and traveled to

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. To update his father about the Badakhshan's situation, Qazi Arab had succeeded to keep up linkages with their brothers and notable elites of Badakhshan. On the other hand, the Badakhshanis, according to their nature and custom became dissatisfied with the reign of Shah Imad, and secretly sent a group of Badakhshi elites via Chitral to fetch Mir Yar Beg from Hindustan. On oath, they guaranteed his safety in Badakhshan and thus he agreed to regain control of Badakhshan in his hand. The Badakhshi representatives and Mir Yar Beg reached Chitral where he advised his son Qazi Arab to stay in Chitral and asked Shah Nasir Rais to settle him in Chitral. Mir Yar began his crusade of Badakhshan salvage from Chitral, knowingly leaving his dog behind with Qazi Arab in Chitral. On reaching the mountain of Khatanza he refused to go on, and to find out the intentions of the Badakhshanis towards him and to find out their good faith, he said—" until you bring me my dog from Chitral, I will not move a step forward from this place." The Badakshanis went to Chitral and brought the dog. When he reached Zebak the Badakshanis raised the standard of revolt against Shah Imad, and turned him out of the government. According to the Taʾrīkh-i- Badakhshan and the Armughan-i- Badakhshan, Mir Yar Beg had several sons, possibly with different wives. Mir Yar Beg died in 1699, leaving behind ten sons and dividing Badakhshan among his nine sons. A Persian manuscript, written by Walizada Qazi Arab the elder son of Mir Yar Beg in 1662, gives the genealogical account of the latter's ten sons. It also narrates that Shah Nasir Rais settled Walizada Qazi Arab in Chunj village of Chitral and also gave him agriculture and pasture lands in Yarkhun valley near Tupkhana-i-Ziabeg. The descendants of Walizada Qazi Arab are living in Chunj, Khoosh, and

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valley in upper Chitral.Qazi Arab, Walizada;(1072 A.H), A Persian manuscript about the brief history of Yar Beg regime and genealogy of his decedents: his trip from Badakhshan via Chitral to the court of Abul Muzaffar Muhy-ud-Din Muhammad Aurangzeb Alamgir; Archives Library Peshawar holding N0.176-177/10.

References

*''Revelations Regarding Badakhshan''. The Asiatic quarterly review, Volume 9. Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 189

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sahibzada, Mir Yar Beg People from Badakhshan Province 1699 deaths Year of birth unknown