Origins of Khan family(of squash)

[toughpashtun]

1-The Khan family from Nawakili,Peshawar excel in the game of squash.Legends such as Hashim Khan,Roshan Khan, Azam Khan,Jehangir Khan,Torsam Khan(late) belong to this family.
Does anyone know if this family actually speak Pashto and which tribe they belong to?

2- Jansher Khan was also a great squash player.Does anyone know his tribe and whether he speaks Pashto?Is he linked to the Khan family mentioned in the first question?

[BarakzaiAbdali]

1-The Khan family from Nawakili,Peshawar excel in the game of squash.Legends such as Hashim Khan,Roshan Khan, Azam Khan,Jehangir Khan,Torsam Khan(late) belong to this family.
Does anyone know if this family actually speak Pashto and which tribe they belong to?

2- Jansher Khan was also a great squash player.Does anyone know his tribe and whether he speaks Pashto?Is he linked to the Khan family mentioned in the first question?

Yes. I visited a mosque in Denver years ago and was introduced to Hashim Khan when I was younger. He spoke Pashto, Peshawar dialect so I had a little difficulty at first being able to understand everything (he used words like "tapos") but he understood me completely.

One of his daughters (all of them were raised in the states in an era before any large portion of the ummah was present) was married to someone that we knew in the early group of Pashtuns that migrated over in the 1960s.

Back then the Afghan and Pakistani Pashtuns entered the country in an era where there were no mosques, no big Muslim communities etc. so they tended to be close knit and not focus on Afghan vs Pakistan nationality. This was also before the Russian War so the current dividing issues were not there. Unfortunately this seemed to change after the 1980s.

The person married into their family told me they are Khalil. So this is the first time I heard of that tribe which I find fascinating. The Khalils up till the 1900s really were mainly in the vale of Peshawar... but after the early 1900s hijra movement an enclave of Khalil settled in Afghanistan and became, for all intents and purposes, Afghan nationals. They returned to ancestoral lands in the 1980s war period when they needed to.

Some of the medical trips permitted me to interact with these tribes that are far away from what is now called the region of the Durrani confederacy. I made a lot of Yusufzai, Khattak, and FATA tribal friends on these journeys.

Maybe one day I should put to paper the history of the early Pashtun community in the US.

I still have deeply embedded memories of the muj train that Reagan built where two young boys from Jalalabad were air lifted to a hospital right near where I was growing up... these two young boys woke up after hours of sedatives, narcs given for pain, etc in a US hospital and a cadre of Pashtuns from Afghanistan and Pakistan who had settled in the US were called in to translate for them.

I still recall the adhan that one of these relatively young men would make in the American mosque when his leg injury forced him to stay and his colleague went back to die on the red army's killing fields.

It was in these times that major future players would cross paths (e.g. the Shinwaris, Popalzais in Virginia, Malikyar, and Fida Yunis) and all be in one room and you could get the sense that they were tied to their locale/village but saw no border.

[rooh2]

Yes. I visited a mosque in Denver years ago and was introduced to Hashim Khan when I was younger. He spoke Pashto, Peshawar dialect so I had a little difficulty at first being able to understand everything (he used words like "tapos") but he understood me completely.

One of his daughters (all of them were raised in the states in an era before any large portion of the ummah was present) was married to someone that we knew in the early group of Pashtuns that migrated over in the 1960s.

Back then the Afghan and Pakistani Pashtuns entered the country in an era where there were no mosques, no big Muslim communities etc. so they tended to be close knit and not focus on Afghan vs Pakistan nationality. This was also before the Russian War so the current dividing issues were not there. Unfortunately this seemed to change after the 1980s.

The person married into their family told me they are Khalil. So this is the first time I heard of that tribe which I find fascinating. The Khalils up till the 1900s really were mainly in the vale of Peshawar... but after the early 1900s hijra movement an enclave of Khalil settled in Afghanistan and became, for all intents and purposes, Afghan nationals. They returned to ancestoral lands in the 1980s war period when they needed to.

Some of the medical trips permitted me to interact with these tribes that are far away from what is now called the region of the Durrani confederacy. I made a lot of Yusufzai, Khattak, and FATA tribal friends on these journeys.

Maybe one day I should put to paper the history of the early Pashtun community in the US.

I still have deeply embedded memories of the muj train that Reagan built where two young boys from Jalalabad were air lifted to a hospital right near where I was growing up... these two young boys woke up after hours of sedatives, narcs given for pain, etc in a US hospital and a cadre of Pashtuns from Afghanistan and Pakistan who had settled in the US were called in to translate for them.

I still recall the adhan that one of these relatively young men would make in the American mosque when his leg injury forced him to stay and his colleague went back to die on the red army's killing fields.

It was in these times that major future players would cross paths (e.g. the Shinwaris, Popalzais in Virginia, Malikyar, and Fida Yunis) and all be in one room and you could get the sense that they were tied to their locale/village but saw no border.

Wow, you should publish a book man.

[toughpashtun]

Yes. I visited a mosque in Denver years ago and was introduced to Hashim Khan when I was younger. He spoke Pashto, Peshawar dialect so I had a little difficulty at first being able to understand everything (he used words like "tapos") but he understood me completely.

One of his daughters (all of them were raised in the states in an era before any large portion of the ummah was present) was married to someone that we knew in the early group of Pashtuns that migrated over in the 1960s.

Back then the Afghan and Pakistani Pashtuns entered the country in an era where there were no mosques, no big Muslim communities etc. so they tended to be close knit and not focus on Afghan vs Pakistan nationality. This was also before the Russian War so the current dividing issues were not there. Unfortunately this seemed to change after the 1980s.

The person married into their family told me they are Khalil. So this is the first time I heard of that tribe which I find fascinating. The Khalils up till the 1900s really were mainly in the vale of Peshawar... but after the early 1900s hijra movement an enclave of Khalil settled in Afghanistan and became, for all intents and purposes, Afghan nationals. They returned to ancestoral lands in the 1980s war period when they needed to.

Some of the medical trips permitted me to interact with these tribes that are far away from what is now called the region of the Durrani confederacy. I made a lot of Yusufzai, Khattak, and FATA tribal friends on these journeys.

Maybe one day I should put to paper the history of the early Pashtun community in the US.

I still have deeply embedded memories of the muj train that Reagan built where two young boys from Jalalabad were air lifted to a hospital right near where I was growing up... these two young boys woke up after hours of sedatives, narcs given for pain, etc in a US hospital and a cadre of Pashtuns from Afghanistan and Pakistan who had settled in the US were called in to translate for them.

I still recall the adhan that one of these relatively young men would make in the American mosque when his leg injury forced him to stay and his colleague went back to die on the red army's killing fields.

It was in these times that major future players would cross paths (e.g. the Shinwaris, Popalzais in Virginia, Malikyar, and Fida Yunis) and all be in one room and you could get the sense that they were tied to their locale/village but saw no border.

Wow, thats a nice essay you got there.Thank you brother.When exactly was your meeting with Hashim Khan?

[BarakzaiAbdali]

Wow, thats a nice essay you got there.Thank you brother.When exactly was your meeting with Hashim Khan?

1992. I didn't understand the importance of the meeting. Looking back there were a lot more questions I should have asked about his early life.

[toughpashtun]

1992. I didn't understand the importance of the meeting. Looking back there were a lot more questions I should have asked about his early life.

Who knows , maybe you meet his sons or grandsons in the future; that should give you the chance to get more details about the family.