Afridi - List of Notable Afridis

List of Notable Afridis

  • Darya Khan Afridi and Aimal Khan Afridi, resistance leaders allied with Khushal Khan Khattak against Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, defeating the Mughal army around the Khyber Pass in 1672.
  • Sher Ali Afridi, a former policeman from Peshawar who assassinated Lord Mayo, the Viceroy of British India, in 1872.
  • Ajab Khan, who murdered the wife of Major Ellis and kidnapped his daughter, Mollie Ellis, from a bungalow adjoining a British cantonment in Kohat, in 1923. Ajab and his accomplices were declared enemies by their own tribe, and sentenced to jail by a jirga of fellow Afridis after surrendering.
  • Rahimuddin Khan, Pakistani general, military Governor of Balochistan (1978-1984) and Governor of Sindh (1988).
  • Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer and former national captain, and the world record-holder for the fastest century in One Day International cricket.
  • Zakir Hussain, Indian politician and educationist who served as the first Muslim President of India from 1967 to 1969. Hussain was a descendant of Hussain Khan, an Afridi who migrated from Kohat to Kaimganj in 1715.

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