Draft:Kohat Behzadi Bangash's

Behzadi Bangashs
The Behzadis constitive an important sub-division of the baizai.Presently they settled on the old Bannu Road near the Cantoment, the Malik Miris, the Karamdadis were massacred by the Behzadis and the few remnants took refuge in the chahch tract in the Attock district, the Alladadis, like Karamdadis also suffered at the hands of Behzadis and migrated to other areas. A few of their families are settled in Nusrat Khel settlement on the west of Kohat city, some with the Behzadis in Behzadi Chikar Kot, while their majority moved to Chahch and other parts od Hind. Alladad and Karamda were from the same mother.The elder of the clan narrate that Alladad was the eldest of the faur brothers.The clans was than settled on the source o the water springs near the Company Bagh in Kohat.Allahdad Khan and Karamdad Khan had contiguous area with Behzad Khan that extentd from Kohat city, including the present cantonment,Kohat Development Authority town,down in the south to village jarma included and in the east up to Ghandiyali and Shadi Khel,Being elder,Allahdad Khan allocated major portion of the tract to the Karamdad and to himself,which was resented by Behzad Khan.Allahdad Khan refused to listen to reasons and consequenty,Behzad Khan and his decendants connived to destroy Allahdad Khan,his full brother,Karamdad Khan and their decentants.They invited them to a feast and subsequently massacred them except for a few.The remnants took refuge in Hazro and from the descended the karamdadis Bangashes of Chahch and to his Group of Bangashes family of General jehandad khan belongs.A few of the fugitive Allahdadi families subsequenly returned to Kohat and are presently settled with the Behzadis.They are settled in the Kandi Allahdadi in the Village Behzadi Chikarkot where as some of the Allahdadi families to Bengal in Hind and are there to this day. As for the property of Allahdad, except for some Lands in other Villages, the whole of the Jarma tract, Shahpur and the Kharmatu lands were confiscated by the Emperor Akbar. This tract of land remained resumed by the government and was used by the Mughals,Durranis,Sikhs and the later,British Government as a bait for good service by the local and has been given as 'jagir' to various families who served their cause, The Jarma tract was given to Mubarak Shah Banuri,the Kharmatu surrounding area to Nawab Sher Khan Bangash and Shahpur to the Kiyani Family for their servies during the War of Freedom 1857.

== References = 1.This settlement is located in the suburbs of Kohat city Bannu road. Their former site was resumed by the British Government on Annexation; the village having been removed to its present site by Capt Coke in 1855.

2. Tucker mention a seasnal nullah called Jhang Katha, to be to be roots of discord amongst the sons of Behzad Khan,which deos not seem plausible as this Katha is an insignificant drain as for irrigation is concerned.See Appedix-I of Kohat Settlement report,1884.

3.Village Kharmatu is located 7 miles south east of Kohat, under a low range o hills.It was founded about 1570 AD by Rustaam Khan, Musa Khel and Dakni Khan, Behzadi. A century after Amin and Wilayat Awan from cis-indus,came and settled here as tenant.After the time descendant of Rustam Khan and Dakni Khanreturned to Behzadi ,and the village lanf all fell to the descendant of Amin and Wilayat ;subsequently there was a further emigration of awans.After 1857 this village was given,with other lands, in a jigar to Bahadur Sher Khan Izzat Khel Bangash, who settled some afridis in the village.