Wazir often refers to: * Vizier or wazir, a high-ranking political advisor or minister Wazir may also refer to:

Places

* Wazirabad, a City in Punjab, Pakistan * Waziristan, a region in tribal belt of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan * Wazir Akbar Khan (Kabul), a neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan * Wazir, Nangarhar, a village in Khogyani District, Afghanistan

Other uses

* Wazir (chess), a fairy chess piece that moves one space in an orthogonal direction * Wazir (film), ''Wazir'' (film), a 2016 Bollywood film starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar * Wazir (Pashtun tribe), a tribe in Waziristan, Pakistan * Wazir (Khogyani clan), a tribe in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan * Waziri language, a language spoken in Waziristan region of Pakistan * Wazir Khan Mosque, a mosque in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

People with the name

* Wazir Khan (Lahore), 17th-century court physician to Shah Jahan * Wazir Khan (Sirhind) (died 1710), governor of Sirhind in the Mughal Empire * Wazir Ali Khan (1780–1817), fourth nawab of Awadh, India * Wazir Akbar Khan (1816–1845), an Afghan prince, general, and emir * Wazir Arsala Khan, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan in 1869 * Wazir Ali (1903–1950), India Test cricketer * Wazir Mohammad (born 1929), former Pakistani cricketer * Haji Wazir (Bagram detainee), a detainee at Bagram who had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf * Ali Wazir, Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement * Arif Wazir, Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement * Mir Kalam (Mir Kalam Khan Wazir), Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement * Khalil al-Wazir (1935–1988), Palestinian military leader and senior aide of Yasser Arafat * Khalid Wazir (born 1936), former Pakistani cricketer * Abdullah Wazir (born 1979), one of the Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay * Wazir Mohammed Khan (died October 14, 1974), an Indian actor who acted in many movies including the first Indian talkie Alam Ara, Alam Ara (1931) * Safiya Wazir, American politician * Usman Wazeer, Pakistani boxer * Wazir Baig, Pakistani politician and former speaker of Gilgit Baltistan Assembly

Places

Other uses

People with the name

See also