Niazi
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The Niazi are a tribe of Ghilzai
Pashtun people
in Afghanistan
, Pakistan
, and Turkey
. The name Niazi is derived from Niazai, like the other forms of Pashtun tribes, such as Yusufzai and Orakzai
. In the Pashtun tribal hierarchy, Niazi is one of the most respected tribes.
i, Multan
, Dera Ismail Khan
, Bannu
, Lakki Marwat
, Chakwal District
, Swabi
, Mardan
, Hangu
, Quetta
, Attock
, Pishin
, Loralai
, Khanewal
, Faisalabad
, Kohat
and Bhakkar
. However, a large number of the Niazi tribe still lives in parts of Afghanistan, mainly in Qalaye Niazi
, Kandahar
, Ghazni
, Gardez, Logar and Paktia province. A considerable number have also settled in Karachi
and other major Pakistani cities such as Lahore
, Islamabad
, Rawalpindi
and Peshawar
.
Many Niazis are also found in Turkey, and also in the United Kingdom where some descendants live.
Niazi tribe members living in Afghanistan speak Pashto, as do those inhabiting the districts of Hangu, Kohat, Swabi, Mardan, Lakki Marwat, Bannu and Mianwali. However, those Pashtuns living east of Kohat speak Saraiki
dialect which is influenced by Pashto. Niazis strongly follow the honour code known as Pashtunwali
.
Ghilzai
Ghilzai are the largest Pashtun tribal confederacy found in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They are also known historically as Ghilji, Khilji, Ghalji, Ghilzye, and possibly Gharzai...
Pashtun people
Pashtun people
Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...
in Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
, Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
, and Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
. The name Niazi is derived from Niazai, like the other forms of Pashtun tribes, such as Yusufzai and Orakzai
Orakzai
Orakzai is a Pashtun tribe settled in the Orakzai Agency of Pakistan. It consists of eighteen clans. Most of the members are situated in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.-Location:...
. In the Pashtun tribal hierarchy, Niazi is one of the most respected tribes.
People
Niazis in Pakistan mainly live in MianwalMianwal
Mianwal is a town and union council of Mandi Bahauddin District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 31°52'60N 73°5'60E and has an altitude of 183 metres ....
i, Multan
Multan
Multan , is a city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan and capital of Multan District. It is located in the southern part of the province on the east bank of the Chenab River, more or less in the geographic centre of the country and about from Islamabad, from Lahore and from Karachi...
, Dera Ismail Khan
Dera Ismail Khan
Dera Ismail Khan is a city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It is situated on the west bank of the Indus River, west of Lahore and northwest of Multan. The city is the capital of the district and tehsil of the same name. In Pakistan, its name is often abbreviated to D. I...
, Bannu
Bannu
Bannu is the principal city of the Bannu District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. It is an important road junction and market city. Bannu is a very old city, founded in ancient times; however, the present location of the downtown Bannu was founded by Sir Herbert Edwardes in 1848,...
, Lakki Marwat
Lakki Marwat
Lakki Marwat or Lakki is the headquarters of Lakki Marwat District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at 32°41 25N 70°50'5E and has an altitude of 255 metres , the town is administratively divided into 2 union councils.-History:In 1844 Fateh Khan Tiwana, the revenue collector...
, Chakwal District
Chakwal District
Chakwal is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Chakwal district was created in 1985; until the year 2000 when divisions were abolished, it was part of Rawalpindi Division.-Administration:...
, Swabi
Swabi
Swabi is the capital of Swabi District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at 34°7'0N 72°28'0E. Its residents are referred to as 'Swabiwaal.'-Geography:...
, Mardan
Mardan
Mardan , known as The city of hospitality, is a city and headquarters of Mardan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. It is the de facto headquarters of the Yousafzai tribe and the second most populous city in the province, located at 34°12'0N 72°1'60E and an altitude of in the south...
, Hangu
Hangu District (Pakistan)
Hangu is a district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The district takes its name from the town of Hangu. The name Hangu may also sometimes be applied to the Miranzai Valley which is partly within the district, bordering the Samana Range....
, Quetta
Quetta
is the largest city and the provincial capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. Known as the "Fruit Garden of Pakistan" due to the diversity of its plant and animal wildlife, Quetta is home to the Hazarganji Chiltan National Park, which contains some of the rarest species of wildlife in the...
, Attock
Attock
Attock is a city located in the northern border of the Punjab province of Pakistan and the headquarters of Attock District...
, Pishin
Pishin District
Pishin was a part of Quetta Pishin district. In 1975 it was separated from Quetta for administrative reasons. It derives its name from the locality Pishin. Pishin is a modernised form of ‘Pushang’, which is old Persian for the Arabic Fushang. Myth attributes the origin of the name to a son of the...
, Loralai
Loralai
Loralai is the principal city of Loralai District in the northeast of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. It was formerly known as Bori. It is four thousand seven hundred feet above the sea level....
, Khanewal
Khanewal
Khanewal is the capital city of Khanewal District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is notable for being the host city to the second largest train station in Pakistan. Khanewal is located at 30°18'0N 71°56'0E with an altitude of 128 metres and is named after the earliest settlers here who...
, Faisalabad
Faisalabad
Faisalabad , formerly known as Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan, the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has...
, Kohat
Kohat
Kohat is a medium sized town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at 33°35'13N 71°26'29E with an altitude of 489 metres and is the capital of Kohat District. The town centres around a British-era fort, various bazaars, and a military cantonment. A British-built narrow gauge...
and Bhakkar
Bhakkar
Bhakkar is the principal city of Bhakkar District, Punjab, Pakistan. It lies on the left bank of the Indus river. It has a population of almost 300,000 and was given status of district in 1981.-Administration:...
. However, a large number of the Niazi tribe still lives in parts of Afghanistan, mainly in Qalaye Niazi
Qalaye Niazi
Qalaye Niazi is a village located about 2.5 miles north of the capital city Gardez, Paktia Province, Afghanistan. It is also about 84 miles south of Kabul....
, Kandahar
Kandahar
Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 512,200 as of 2011. It is the capital of Kandahar Province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m above sea level...
, Ghazni
Ghazni
For the Province of Ghazni see Ghazni ProvinceGhazni is a city in central-east Afghanistan with a population of about 141,000 people...
, Gardez, Logar and Paktia province. A considerable number have also settled in Karachi
Karachi
Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...
and other major Pakistani cities such as Lahore
Lahore
Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...
, Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...
, Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...
and Peshawar
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....
.
Many Niazis are also found in Turkey, and also in the United Kingdom where some descendants live.
Niazi tribe members living in Afghanistan speak Pashto, as do those inhabiting the districts of Hangu, Kohat, Swabi, Mardan, Lakki Marwat, Bannu and Mianwali. However, those Pashtuns living east of Kohat speak Saraiki
Saraiki language
Saraiki , transliterated as Sirāikī and sometimes spelled Seraiki and Saraiki, is a standardized written language of Pakistan belonging to the Indo-Aryan languages. It is a language spoken in the heart of Pakistan...
dialect which is influenced by Pashto. Niazis strongly follow the honour code known as Pashtunwali
Pashtunwali
Pashtunwali or Pakhtunwali is a non-written ethical code and traditional lifestyle which the indigenous Pashtun people from Afghanistan and Pakistan follow. Some in the Indian subcontinent refer to it as "Pathanwali". Its meaning may also be interpreted as "the way of the Pashtuns" or "the code of...
.
Notable people
Sofia Niazi is the current Empress of the Niazi tribe. She resides in a castle in the hilltops.Given name
Niazi can be used as a given name among Muslim people.- NiyaziNiyaziNiyazi Zulfigar oglu Tagizade Hajibeyov was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani musical conductor, composer, author of the famous "Rast" symphonic mugam.-Early life:...
(1912-1984), Azerbaijani musical conductor and composer - Niazi DemiNiazi DemiNiazi Rustem Demi was an Albanian politician.Niazi Demi was born in 1919 in Filiates, a town of northwestern Greece . He studied in Vlorë and then in Tiranë's high school, graduating in late 1930s. In 1942 he joined the ranks of the Albanian National Liberation Front and in 1943 became political...
, Albanian politician - Njazi KuqiNjazi KuqiNjazi Kuqi is a Finnish footballer of Kosovar Albanian origin who plays in the Greek Superleague for Panionios....
, Finnish footballer - Niyazi ManyeraNiyazi ManyeraDr. Niyazi Manyera was the first minister of health of the 1960 Republic of Cyprus. Dr. Manyera was born 1911 in Famagusta and died on 24 October 1999 in London. After completing his high school studies, he studied medicine in Turkey at the University of Istanbul which he finished in 1939.Dr....
, Turkish Cypriot politician - Niyazi ÖktemNiyazi ÖktemNiyazi Öktem is a Turkish academic. Born in Elazığ, he is a professor of Public Law, Philosophy of Law, and Sociology of Law in the Faculty of Law at Istanbul Bilgi University. He is president of the Intercultural Dialogue Platform, the most prominent inter-faith organisation in Turkey.-References:...
, Turkish academic - Niyazi SayınNiyazi SayinNiyazi Sayın , spelled Niyazi Sayin in the West, is a Turkish ney flautist and music educator. For a long time, he has performed duets with tanbur lute player Necdet Yaşar...
, Turkish musician
Surname
- Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, Pakistani Army Lt Gen
- Aamir Hayat Khan NiaziAamir Hayat Khan NiaziAamir Hayat Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician, and a current member of the Punjab Provincial Assembly. He is the son of the late Pakistani politician and political activist, Amir Abdullah Khan Rokhri, and comes from the renowned Rokhri family which include other of his distinguished relatives...
, Pakistani politician - Abdul Sattar Khan Niazi, Pakistani politician
- Amil NiaziAmil NiaziAmil Niazi is a Canadian writer, broadcaster and columnist, currently residing in Toronto, Ontario.Amil served as a long-time section editor at Vancouver's now defunct alternative weekly Terminal City...
, Canadian writer, broadcaster and columnist - Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi, Pakistani general
- Gul Hameed Khan NiaziGul Hameed Khan RokhriGul Hameed Khan Rokhri is a Pakistani politician. Throughout his political career, he has been a member of the Provincial Assembly, been elected as an MNA, and then later became the Punjab Revenue, Relief & Consolidations Minister...
, Pakistani politician - Hakim Hakimzade Niyazi (1889-1929), Uzbek poet and playwright
- Humair Hayat Khan NiaziHumair Hayat Khan RokhriMuhammad Humair Hayat Khan Niazi of Rokhri is a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan. He defeated federal minister Dr Sher Afghan Khan Niazi in the 2008 Elections for NA-72 . He had previously served as District Nazim Mianwali from 2001 to 2005...
, Pakistani politician - Imran Khan NiaziImran KhanImran Khan Niazi is a Pakistani politician and former Pakistani cricketer, playing international cricket for two decades in the late twentieth century. After retiring, he entered politics...
, Pakistani cricketer and politician - Isa Khan Niazi, Afghan noble
- Mehmet NiyaziMehmet NiyaziMehmet Niyazi Cemali was an Ottoman-born Romanian and Crimean Tatar poet, journalist, schoolteacher, academic, and activist for ethnic Tatar causes. Present for part of his life in the Russian Empire and Crimea-proper, he wrote most of his works in Crimean Tatar language and Ottoman Turkish...
(1878-1931), Romanian and Crimean Tatar poet and activist - Misbah-ul-Haq Khan NiaziMisbah-ul-HaqMisbah-ul-Haq Khan Niazi is a Pakistani cricketer and the captain of the Pakistan national cricket team for s and s...
, Pakistani cricketer - Munir NiaziMunir NiaziMunir Ahmad, better known as Munir Niazi, SI was an Urdu poet from Pakistan who also produced poetry in the Panjabi language.Niazi was born in Khanpur on 19 April 1928, a village near Hoshiarpur, India. He was from the Niazi tribe...
, Urdu poet - Tariq NiaziTariq NiaziTariq Niazi was a Pakistani field hockey player between 1961 and 1969 and also member of the Olympic team. Niazi was part of the 1964 games in Tokyo where they won a silver medal and the 1968 games in Mexico City where they won the gold. He also competed in the Asian Games...
, Pakistani field hockey player - Sikander Khan Niazi, Student of computer department of univercity of gujrat 03056162842 ]]
Niazi tribe locations
- Niazi, Mianwali, Punjab
- Niazi, Jaranwala, District Faislabad, Punjab
- Niazi, Katora, Khanewal, Punjab
- Niazi, Union Council Kot Gulla,Lawa. Tehsil Talagang District Chakwal , Punjab
- Katti Khel, Tank, Pakhtunkhwa
- Niazi,Tehsil Dunyapur ,District Lodhran , Punjab
- Niazi,Basti Boher Tehsil Multan ,District Multan , Punjab
- Sindh, Sukkur, New Pind, Pathan Coloney, Pano Aqil,
- Bahrain, Riffa Manama,