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Nahar are Ghorghast Afghans being descended from Naghar or Nahar, one of the four sons of Danai, son of Ismael the Gorghast and so akin to Kakar, Dawai and Parnai. Nahar name is also said to have been given on account of their rapacity , 'Nahar; meaning tiger in Sanskrit.
Never very numerous they once held all the hill country from near Nigaha or Sakhi sarwar pass to the south comprsising the Southern parts of the Koh-i-Siyah or Suleiman range, where it trends to the west and is much mixed up with lower ranges of Koh-i-Surkh or red range. At the hieght of their prosperity , the Nahars spread east and south into plains of Indus valley, and they are siad to have once held the tracts around harrand, Siw Sitpur and Kinkot. As a tribe they were gradually dispossessed by the Baloch.
As a dynasty Nahars rose to power under Islam Khan, a kinsman of Bahlol Lodhi, who had charge of southern parts of Multan province including Sitpur now in Muzaffargarh, Kin In Dera Ghazai khan and Kashmor in Sindh, all then on right bank of the Indus. He cut himself adrift from Langah at Multan and set up an independent government at Sitpur. But the Mirrani Balochs came soon into conflict with Nahars who had extended their dominion North-ward from Sitpur over Harrand and Dajal, but were expelled from those tracts by Ghazi khan in 1482 A.D. The Nahar territory thus diminished was soon divided between Kasim Khan , a grandson of the first islam Khan, who held the southern part,and Islam Khan his brother who held the northern, with Sitpur. The Mazari Balochs expelled the Nahars from Kin in 16th century and the Nahars of Sitpur fell into decay about the same time as as the Mirranis i.e about 1789. Makhdum Shaikh Rajan userped part of their territories and expelled them from Sitpur.
Tomb of Tahar khan Nahar at Sitpur, Muzaffargarh
Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North West ..., Volume 1
Nahars | History of Pashtuns
Never very numerous they once held all the hill country from near Nigaha or Sakhi sarwar pass to the south comprsising the Southern parts of the Koh-i-Siyah or Suleiman range, where it trends to the west and is much mixed up with lower ranges of Koh-i-Surkh or red range. At the hieght of their prosperity , the Nahars spread east and south into plains of Indus valley, and they are siad to have once held the tracts around harrand, Siw Sitpur and Kinkot. As a tribe they were gradually dispossessed by the Baloch.
As a dynasty Nahars rose to power under Islam Khan, a kinsman of Bahlol Lodhi, who had charge of southern parts of Multan province including Sitpur now in Muzaffargarh, Kin In Dera Ghazai khan and Kashmor in Sindh, all then on right bank of the Indus. He cut himself adrift from Langah at Multan and set up an independent government at Sitpur. But the Mirrani Balochs came soon into conflict with Nahars who had extended their dominion North-ward from Sitpur over Harrand and Dajal, but were expelled from those tracts by Ghazi khan in 1482 A.D. The Nahar territory thus diminished was soon divided between Kasim Khan , a grandson of the first islam Khan, who held the southern part,and Islam Khan his brother who held the northern, with Sitpur. The Mazari Balochs expelled the Nahars from Kin in 16th century and the Nahars of Sitpur fell into decay about the same time as as the Mirranis i.e about 1789. Makhdum Shaikh Rajan userped part of their territories and expelled them from Sitpur.
Tomb of Tahar khan Nahar at Sitpur, Muzaffargarh
Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North West ..., Volume 1
Nahars | History of Pashtuns
