Maira Amjad Ali
Maira Amjad Ali is a village in the Mansehra district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is part of Union Council Peeran of tehsil Mansehra. The village has a population of approximately 3,000 people. It is located 10 kilometres away from Attar Shisha and 6 kilometres from Sandesar, from where its road diverges from the Kaghan Highway.
History
According to legend, Qutb Shah was a ruler of Herat and a general in the army of Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni.Historical sources attest that the Khorasan and Herat were under the rule of King Nuh III of Samanids, the seventh of the Samanid line—at the time of Sebük Tigin and his older son, Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi.
The governor of Herāt was a noble by the name of 'Faik', who governed on behalf of King Nuh III. Faik was a powerful, but insubordinate governor of Nuh III; and had been punished by Nuh III. Faik made overtures to Bogra Khan and Ughar Khan of Khorasan. Bogra Khan answered Faik's call, came to Herāt and became its master. This person, Faik, had nothing to do with any fictitious 'Qutb Shah'. No real proof exists anywhere of the actual existence of any such individual.
In 994, Nuh III invited Alp Tigin to come to his aid. Alp Tigin, along with Mahmud of Ghazni, defeated Faik and annexed Herāt, Nishapur and Tous.
It is claimed in legend and folklore that Qutub Shah and nine of his sons accompanied and assisted Sultan Mahmud Ghazni in his early eleventh-century conquests; of what today forms parts of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Northern India, who, according to tribal traditions, settled primarily in the Salt Range.
NOTABLE PEOPLE from AWAN tribe in Pakistan.
Notable people
Nawab Malik Amir Mohammad Khan, former Nawab of Kalabagh, Chief of the Awan tribe, Governor of West Pakistan from 1960 to 1966
Air Marshal Nur Khan, Commander in Chief of the Pakistan Air Force, 1965–69, Governor of West Pakistan, 1969–70
and recipient of the Hilal-i-Jurat, the second-highest military award of Pakistan.
Mir Sultan Khan – A chess master also believed by some to be the greatest natural chess player of modern times.
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi – Urdu poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist, short story author, recipient of the Pride of Performance and Sitara-e-Imtiaz, the third-highest civil award of Pakistan.
Sultan Bahu – A Sufi mystic, poet, scholar and founder of mystic tradition known as Sarwari Qadiri.
Khadim Hussain Rizvi – A Pakistani Islamic scholar and the founder of Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan.
Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan – Islamic scholar and spiritual leader of the mystic tradition known as Naqshbandia Owaisiah.
Abdul Mannan Wazirabadi – Islamic scholar, jurist and muhaddith.
Dilip Kumar – An actor in Hindi cinema.