Sardar Naseer Ahmad Khan Tareen The Markhor hero of Balochistan ( 1936-2020) was a well-known
Pashtun tribal chieftain, and a social activist and public philanthropist from
Baluchistan
Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. ...
,
Pakistan.
Background
Naseer Khan was the head, or chief, of a section or
clan
A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship
and descent. Even if lineage details are unknown, clans may claim descent from founding member or apical ancestor. Clans, in indigenous societies, tend to be endogamous, meaning ...
of the
Tareen (or Tarin) Pashtun tribe.
Public service projects
Among the various well-known projects for public benefit founded and run by Tareen, are the BRSP (
Balochistan Rural Support Programme
Balochistan Rural Support Programme (BRSP) was a project funded by the German technical cooperation agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in the early 1980s which was converted into the Balochistan Rural Support P ...
) and the TWCP
Torghar Wildlife Conservation Project for wild life of
Markhor. In 2013 the BRSP was given a special award for dedicated public service in Baluchistan area, or province, of Pakistan. The Torghar Project which was launched by Tareen in early 1980s, is deemed to be one of the most significant efforts at sustainable community-based environmental management in Pakistan.
Various significant wildlife and environmental projects in Pakistan
Retrieved 23 November 2014
References
External links
BRSP Official Website
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1936 births
Living people
People from Quetta
Pakistani philanthropists