Muhammad Farid Khan
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Nawab Sir Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli, GBE , GCVO was the last ruling Nawab of the princely state of Amb, from 1936. After his death, the fighting between the descendants of the state of Amb for power, the Pakistani army ended or occupied the integration, so the rule and power ended in 1971. In 1974, the Tarbela Dam completely destroyed the Capitals of Amb and the palaces of the Amb state.
Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli | |||||
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Nawab Nawab Shahib | |||||
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Reign | 1936 – 1969 | ||||
Born | Amb, British Raj | 1 January 1904||||
Died | Darband, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 28 July 1969||||
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 |
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]
After 1947[edit]
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[edit]
- ↑ "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.)