Agha Mir Suleman Dawood Jan Ahmedzai ( Balochi: آغا میر سلیمان داوود خان احمدزی) is the 35th
Khan of Kalat
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, a position he has held since the death of his father, Mir Dawood Jan, in 1998. Currently he lives in self-imposed exile in
Wales
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. His only son,
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Mir Mohammad Khan Ahmadzai, is estranged from him. Both Mir Suleman Dawood and his son had applied for asylum but his son later rebelled and withdrew his asylum request. After that Mir Mohammad Khan Ahmadzai left his father and returned to Pakistan. Upon his arrival to Pakistan, he hoisted Pakistani flag at the Quaid-e-Azam’s Residency in Ziarat. Currently, Mir Mohammad Khan Ahmadzai regularly hosts senior figures of law-enforcement in Balochistan at the same place where his father used to hold court.
Mir Suleman Dawood is the 35th
Khan of Kalat
The Khanate of Kalat ( bal, کلاتءِ ھانات) was a Baloch Khanate that existed from 1512 to 1955 in the centre of the modern-day province of Balochistan, Pakistan. Its rulers were Brahui speakers. Prior to that they were subjects of ...
. Ethnic Baloch by origin. His mother tongue is Brahvi while he also speaks Balochi,
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fluently. Mir Suleman Dawood received his initial education in Lahore and Quetta. He got his early education at Aitchison College in
Lahore
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(1972–1983).
Mir Suleman Dawood has lived in exile in
Cardiff
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,
Wales
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, occasionally traveling to
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. Officially, the
Government of Pakistan
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does not recognize his authority, but his voice still carries tremendous weight with much of the populace, and leading politicians like
Chief Minister
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Abdul Malik Baloch
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and
Sanaullah Zehri
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have asked him to return to
Pakistan
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to pacify the restless Baloch. Mir Suleman Dawood Jan's Uncle who is also his father-in-law and his younger brothers, Prince Mohyuddin Baloch (Uncle) and Prince Faisal Dawood and Prince Umer Daud Khan, are politicians in Pakistan.