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'''Najib ad-Dawlah''' ({{lang-ps|نجيب الدوله}}), also known as '''Najib Khan Yousafzai''' ({{lang-ps|نجيب خان}}), was a [[Rohilla|Rohilla Yousafzai Pashtun]] who earlier served as a [[Mughals|Mughal]] serviceman but later deserted the cause of the Mughals and joined [[Ahmed Shah Abdali]] in 1757 in his attack on Delhi. He was also a House chief in the 18th century [[Rohilkhand]], who in the 1740s founded the city of [[Najibabad]] in [[Bijnor district]], [[India]]. He's was great cause for winning [[Third Battle of Panipat]]  

He began his career in 1743 as an immigrant from the village [[Swabi]], District [[Swabi]] [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] as a soldier. He was at first an employee of [[Ghazi ud-Din Khan Feroze Jung III|Imad ul mulk]]. He deserted the cause of the Mughals and joined [[Ahmed Shah Abdali]] in 1757 in his attack on Delhi. He was then appointed as ''Mir Bakshi'' of the Mughal emperor by [[Ahmad Shah Abdali|Abdali]]. Later in his career he was known  as '''Najib ad-Dawlah, Amir al-Umra, Shuja ad-Dawlah'''.<ref>[http://etawah.nic.in/history2.htm History of Etawah] [[Etawah]] Official website.</ref> From 1757 to 1770 he was governor of [[Saharanpur]], ruling over [[Dehradun]]. Many architectural relics of the period of Rohilla he oversaw remain in Najibabad, which he founded at the height of his career as a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] minister.<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Najibabad |volume=19 |page=156 }}.</ref>

[[Najib Khan]] belonged to the UmarKhel section of [[Mandanh]] [[Yousafzai]]. He migrated from Mohallah Nazar Khel village [[Swab]]{{dn|date=July 2021}}, district [[Swabi]], now [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]. He was born in Nazar Khel, village Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He migrated in 1739 to join his uncle Bisharat Khan, who had settled with his families of [[Pakhtuns]] at Bisharatnagar, near [[Rampur, Uttar Pradesh|Rampur]].{{citation needed|date=July 2012}} In 1749, [[Ali Mohammed Khan]], who had captured most of [[Rohilkhand]] by 1740, gave Najib Khan a northern portion,<ref name=bij/> where he established the present day city of [[Najibabad]], a state of [[Najibabad]] independent from other Rohilla tribes, and received the title, ‘Najib ad-Dawlah’.