Muhammad Farid Khan
Nawab Sir Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli, GBE , GCVO was the last ruling Nawab of the princely state of Amb, from 1936 till 1969. In 1947 he acceded his state to the Dominion of Pakistan. A small state in a subsidiary alliance with British India, in 1958 Amb was reported to have an area of 590 square miles and a population of 48,656.[2]
Seated left to right Sahibzada Mohammad Khurshid, Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawab Sir Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli of Amb (Tanawal), and Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Thanking to the Nawab Amb for help in Indo-pak war 1947-1948 at Darband, Amb, in 1949.
| Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nawab Nawab Shahib | |||||
11th last Nawab of Kingdom of Amb | |||||
| Reign | 1936–1969 | ||||
| Born | 1 January 1904 Amb, British Raj | ||||
| Died | 28 July 1969 Darband, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ||||
| Burial | 1969 | ||||
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| Dynasty | Ghilzai Empire[1] | ||||
| Father | Muhammad Khan Zaman Khan | ||||
| Religion | Sunni Islam | ||||
| Military career | |||||
| Allegiance | British Raj , Pakistan | ||||
| Rank | Nawab | ||||
| Battles/wars | Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 , Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 | ||||
After 1947
After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, Amb became fully independent, and remained so for the rest of 1947, but on 31 December the Nawab acceded his state to Pakistan.[3]
Nawab Farid khan Tanoli's contributions to the Pakistan movement were acknowledged by the Quaid e Azam.[4][5]
References
- "Ancestor Database - Tano Khel -.-> تنو خېل".
- Amiya Ranjan Mukherjee, Current Affairs (1958), p. 337
- Z. H. Zaidi, CHRONOLOGY OF ACCESSION OF STATES TO PAKISTAN in Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Papers: The States (Quaid-i-Azam Papers Project, 1993), p. xxxix
- Mahomed Ali Jinnah, Z. H. Zaidi, Quaid-I-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Papers: First Series, Volume III: On the Threshold of Pakistan, July 1–25, 1947 (Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-969-8156-07-7, 1120 pp.)
- Sana Haroon, Frontier of faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan borderland (Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-70013-9, 254 pp.)
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