Family
Brigadier Abbas Ali Khan is from a Pakhtun family of Kohat. His father Rehmat Ali Shah Bokhari also known as RAS Bokhari was a Major General in the Pakistan Army and served as the Inspector General of the Frontier Corps Balochistan and commanded the 35th Infantry Division in Bahawalpur, south of Punjab.
Since his mother married Colonel Musa Ali Khan when he was still a toddler, for all documentation purposes he came to be known as Brigadier Abbas Ali Khan son of Musa Ali Khan, his step father. Brigadier Abbas was the only child of his parents but has a few stepbrothers and -sisters. His wife Salhia Hussain (maiden name) hails from a rajput family and is a direct descendant of the Raja Prithvi Raj Chohan.
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