Marwat

The Marwats (Pashto: مروت) are a Pashtun tribe, located primarily in Lakki Marwat District, parts of DI Khan and some villages of Tank district, located in the south of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Across the Durand line, a smaller number of the Marwats are scattered in parts of Paktika and Ghazni provinces of Afghanistan. The original homeland of the Marwats is Katawaz (کټواز, which is now called Zarghun Shar District) in Afghanistan, from where Marwats migrated to Daman (present day Tank) and Pezu, and later to Lakki Marwat.^[1] There is a hill in Katawaz still called Marwati, which the Marwat tribe formerly inhabited.

The Marwats are also known as Spin Lohani ("White Lohanis"), and are a cousin tribe of Tokhis, Niazis, Hotaks, Surs and Lodis.

A typical Marwat with his child

See also

• Khan Faizullah Khan, a landlord, and a top contractor, was an elected member of 1937 Legislative Assembly.^[2]
• Khan Habibullah Khan was a justice of West Pakistan High Court, first Chairman of the Senate of Pakistan, and briefly acting President of Pakistan
• Barrister Khan Saifullah Khan, an elected member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. He was a big businessman of the country.
• Khan Niamatullah Khan Ghazni Khel, was a member of Majlis-e-Shoora of Pakistan
• Anwar Kamal Khan, a former senator and a former member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Anwar Saifullah Khan, currently a member of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and formerly a federal minister
• Salim Saifullah Khan, currently a senator, and formerly a federal and provincial minister
• Osman Saifullah Khan, currently a Senator.
• Irfanullah Khan Marwat, a former provincial minister in Sindh
• Mir Nawaz Khan Marwat, a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan and a former federal minister
• Shah Nawaz Khan, a former Chief Justice of NWFP and a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Late Col.Sarfaraz Khan was a colonel in Pakistan who defeated the Indians in Azad Kashmir,he was a member of Majlis-e-shoora and was a land lord of Mullazai and was a Malik in Mullazai.

References

Further reading

• Daily: The Mashriq, Peshawar. 14 January 1993
• Dr Sher Zaman Taizi, Nara Zheba (The Virile Language), (Pabbi, Kamil Pukhto Adabi Jirgah Pabo Seema)
• Olaf Caroe, The Pathans 1550 BC – 1957, (London, MacMilan, NY, 1958)
• Tuffail Ahmad Khan, Bannu Tareekh Kay Ayeenay Main, (Tahi Kulachni Publishers, 1979)
• Insaf, Weekly Magazine (Urdu), Peshawar. 11 July 1955
• Gul Ayub Saifi, Bannu Au Da Waziristan Tareekh, (Bannu, Nazir Medical Store, Lakki Gate. 1969)
• Haim, Haim’s One-Volume Persian- English Dictionary. (Tehran, Farhang Moaser, 1983)
• Dr Syed Chiragh Hussain, Dood-e-Chiragh. (DI Khan. Ishrat Art Press. 1980)
• Parvez Ahmad Khan, The Bannu Valley, (Pakistan Study Centre, University of Peshawar, 1987)
• Syed Bahadur Shah Zafar Kaka Khel, Pashtun Tareekh Kay Ayeenay Main (Translation from Pashto by Syed Anwarul Haq Jeelani). (Peshawar. University Book Agency. 1964)
• Sir Denzil Ibbetson, Lesser Known Tribes of NWFP; India and Pakistan, Vol 11. (Delhi Ammar Prakshan. 1992)
• M.J. Siyal Mohmand, Da Pukhtano Da Qabilo Shajare. (Peshawar. University book Agency, 1986)
• Govt of NWFP. Gazetteer of Bannu District (1883–84). (Lahore. Sang-e-Meel. 1989)
• Sher Muhammad Mohamand, "THE MARWATS", published 1999.
• Brig. (Rtd) Haroon-ur-Rasheed, "History of the Pathans" (Vol. III)