Bostan Khan
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Bostan Khan (died 1825), was a warrior of the Tareen (or Tarin) tribe settled in the Haripur, Hazara region of what was to later become the North-West Frontier Province (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan), who was executed for rebellion by the [[Sikh Empire] administrators of the region at that time.[1]
Early life[edit]
Bostan Khan was the nephew of the clan's chief of that time, Sardar Muhammad Khan.[2] After the Sardar of Tareens, Muhammad Khan, was captured for rebelling against the Sikh Empire government of Lahore, in year 1824-25, he was arrested and later executed .
Struggle and death[edit]
After Sardar Muhammad Khan Tareen's capture his nephew, Sardar Bostan Khan, resumed the freedom struggle and went into rebellion against the Sikh administrators.[3] A small garrison fort in Sirikot in Gandgarh district was attacked and taken by the rebels under Bostan Khan. In 1825, Bostan Khan and others were captured and executed by Sardar Hari Singh Nalwa . [citation needed]
Later events[edit]
Late Sardar Muhammad Khan Tareen had a son, Sardar Ghulam Khan, who for a time from 1826 to 1848 became chief of Tareen in this region but later during the Second Anglo-Sikh War, he was arrested by the British and taken to Allahabad jail, and later hanged there.[4][verification needed]