Jemadar Jemadar or jamadar is a title used for various military and other officials in the Indian subcontinent. Etymology The word stems from Urdu (), which derives through Persian ''jam'dar'' from Arabic ''jamā‘a(t)'' 'muster' + Persian ''-dār'' ...

Yazdan Khan Hazara ( haz, سردار یزدان خان هزاره) (born 1880s) was a Viceroy's Commissioned Officer of the

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from

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(today

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) from 1906 until 1926. He served in the 106th Hazara Pioneers during World War I. He was a descendant of Sher Ali Khan, a Hazara elder from

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, Afghanistan. He was not amongst the fugitive warring tribe of Hazara and belonged to the Afghani Hazara Jaghuri sub tribe Oqi. He migrated from sangi masha jaghuri to Quetta in the year 1908 and joined British army and was dismissed from his service in the year 1926 by captain Ali Dost incharge Hazara Pioneer. He was the father of

General Muhammad Musa Khan Hazara General Muhammad Musa Khan ( ur, ; ) was a Pakistan Army senior general who served as the 4th Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan Army from 1958 to 1966, under President Ayub Khan. Following his tenure as C-in-C of the Army, he later became a po ...

who was the Commander-in-Chief of the

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from 1958 to 1966.

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