Hazarewals or Hazarawals (Urdu: ہزارہ وال) also known as Hazara (ہزارہ) is term used for the multi-ethnic community belonging to the Hazara region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[1][2]
Language and Culture edit
Hindko is the most spoken language of Hazara Division followed by Pashto and various Kohistani languages. Hindko speaking Hazarewals reside in and form the majority in the Haripur District, Abbottabad District, and Mansehra District. The Hindko speaking population consists of the Awans, Gujjars, Tanolis, Swatis, Abbasis, Karlals, Mughals and Jadoons. Pashto speaking Hazarewals include the Yusufzais of Torghar District and the Swatis of Battagram District. The Kohistani people such as the Mankiyalis and Yashkuns inhabiting the northern most districts of Hazara speak in various Kohistani languages.[3][4][5]
Other minority languages include Pahari-Pothwari, spoken by sections of the Karlal and Abbasi tribes of the Galyat region of Abbottabad District (where the langauge is locally called Dhundi-Kairali) and Gujari[3] spoken by Gujjars of the Kaghan Valley.[6][7][8]
The Hazarewal,[9] are not to be confused with the ethnic Hazara people inhabiting parts of Balochistan province in Pakistan or areas of neighbouring Afghanistan. The Hazarewals have, over the last few years, found themselves increasingly in favour of separation and autonomy from the rest of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on administrative basis.[10][11]
Notable Hazarewals edit
Swatis:
- Khan Khudadad Khan Swati – Pakistan independence movement activist, former politician and member of All India Muslim league.
- Abdul Hakeem Khan Swati – former governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan and former Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court.
- Muhammad Nawaz Khan Swati – Former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Battagram.
- Shehzada Gustasip Khan Swati – member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Mansehra.
- Zubair Khan Swati – Former member of Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from Battagram.
- Taj Muhammad Khan Swati – Former member of Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from Battagram
- Munir Hussain Swati – member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from Mansehra.
- Babar Saleem Khan Swati – Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- Zahid Chanzeb Khan Swati – member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from Mansehra.
- Laiq Muhammad Khan Swati – former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. Current member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from Torghar.
- Khan Muhammad Abbas Khan Swati – MLA(1937) of Indian National Congress from Mansehra & Minister of Industries British India.
- Bashir Khan Jehangiri Swati– 17th Chief Justice of the Pakistan Supreme Court
- Azam Khan Swati – politician and businessman who served as the Minister of Narcotics Control and Railways from 2020 to 2022. Senior vice president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
- Haji Muhammad Yousaf Khan Swati – member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Battagram.
- Saleh Muhammad Khan Swati – former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Mansehra.
- Mufti Kifayat Ullah Swati – former member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly from Mansehra.
- Reham Khan Swati – British-Pakistani journalist, author, and filmmaker.
Karlals
- Sardar Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi – companion of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Founding member and first president of Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan as well as the first recipient of Nishan-e-Imtiaz.
- Sardar Haider Zaman Khan – leader of the Hazara Province Movement, former Mayor of Abbottabad District, and former minister in the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- Sardar Aurangzeb – 3 time member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- Sardar Muhammad Idrees – Member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2002 to 2007 and 2013 to 2018.
- Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob – Former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Abbottabad and 16th Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
- Sardar Muhammad Aslam Khan – Former Senator and President of the Pakistan Peoples Party Hazara Division. Member Central Executive Committee of PPP from 1967–77. Three-time president of the District Bar Association Abbottabad.
- Sardar Raza Khan – Former Chief of the Election Commission of Pakistan and the Chief justice of Peshawar High Court.
Jadoons
- Amanullah Khan Jadoon – Former Federal Minister for Petroleum & Natural Resources and former member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly as well as the National Assembly of Pakistan from Abbottabad.
- Iqbal Khan Jadoon – 7th elected Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
- Ali Khan Jadoon – member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Abbottabad.
- Muhammad Azhar Jadoon – former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Abbottabad.
- Iftikhar Ahmad Khan Jadoon – member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from Abbottabad.
Abbasis
- Javed Iqbal Abbasi – member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 1985 to 1988 and again from 1990 to 1993.
- Murtaza Javed Abbasi – Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2008 to 2024 and served as the 18th Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
- Mehtab Abbasi – former Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan from 2014 to 2016, Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 1997 to 1999, and Federal Minister for Railways in 2008.
- Muhammad Javed Abbasi – member of the Senate of Pakistan from 2015 to 2021 and member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 2008 to 2013.
Tanolis
- Nawab Salahuddin Saeed Khan Tanoli – Nawab of former princely State of Amb and former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan.
- Suba Khan Tanoli – was the king Of Amb/Tanawal.
- Muneeb-ur-Rehman – former chairman of Ruet-e-Hilal Committee.
Tareens
- Muhammad Ayub Khan the third Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Army from 1951 to 1958, Chief martial law administrator and unelected President of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969.
- Omar Ayub Khan – Current Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Pakistan , former Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, Federal Minister for Energy, and current member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from Haripur.
- Gohar Ayub Khan – 4th Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan, 20th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, and former Minister for Water and Power.
Others
See also edit
References edit
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- ^ a b Rensch, Calvin Ross; O'Leary, Clare F.; Hallberg, Calinda E. (1992). Sociolinguistic Survey of Northern Pakistan: Hindko and Gujari. National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University. pp. 10–11.
Members of a variety of ethnic groups speak the language called Hindko. A large number of Hindko speakers in Hazara Division (Mansehra and Abbottabad Districts) are Pashtoons. Some of those speak Hindko as a second language; many others speak it as their mother tongue. These include the Tahir Kheli Pashtoons, who claim to have migrated to Hazara Division from Afghanistan during the eighteenth century. Many other mother- tongue speakers of Hindko are Swati Pathans, who are said to have formerly spoken Pashto while living in the lower Swat valley. After migrating across the Indus River into Hazara Division, which Ahmed dates around A.D. 1515, the Swatis adopted the Hindko language. There are also Pashtoons belonging to three other groups, the Yusufzai, the Jadun and the Tarin, who have replaced Pashto with Hindko. Many speakers of Hindko belong to groups other than the Pashtoons: Some of these are Saiyids, said to have come to the area in the early centuries of Islamic history, many of whom live in the Peshawar area. Large numbers of Hindko speakers are Avans, particularly in Attock District and Hazara Division. Still others belong to groups of Moughals, Bulghadris, Turks and Qureshis. In Jammun significant numbers of Gujars have adopted Hindko as their first language.
- ^ Watson, Hubert Digby (1908). Gazetteer of the Hazara District, 1907. Chatto & Windus.
- ^ Organization (Pakistan), Census (1975). Population Census of Pakistan, 1972: Hazara. Manager of Publications.
- ^ "Language in India". www.languageinindia.com. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
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- ^ "Gujari | Ethnologue Free". Ethnologue (Free All). Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ Essentially representing a linguistic and cultural/regional rather than ethnic entity
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