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THE HYATS of WAH (Jagir)

VILLAGES:  REVENUE: xx  ACCESSION: xx STATE: Pakistan (Punjab Dist.) DYNASTY: Khattar RELIGION: Muslim

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PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The history of the Hyats is buried in many tales, aptly set against the backdrop of the historical Wah village, from where the family originates. The Hyats of Wah are Khattars by descent i.e. of indigenous North Punjabi stock. At the time of Mahmud of Ghazni’s invasions, the clan was mostly residing in the Bagh Nilab area, in the vicinity of the river Indus. They were upper class Kshtriya Hindus, and their main leader at the time was one ‘Kaidu’ or ‘Khattar’ who converted to Islam at that time. He was rewarded for his loyalty to his masters with the title of Khattar Khan. Wah itself was created much later when the Mughul Emperor Shah Jehan in 1645 was marching towards Kabul. Tradition holds that the name of the village, "wah', originates in the Emperor's spontaneous word of praise (wow) as he spotted the humble setting then known as Jalalsar. Estate holders were...

Nawab KARAM KHAN, a leading Khattar Chief, in around 1848, when the Punjab was under Sikh Rule, and the British were fighting the Sikh War, he threw in his lot with John Nicholson against the Sikhs. He was murdered by his brother Fatteh Khan (a Sikh supporter), and his children were forced into exile; he married and had issue. Nawab Muhammed Hyat Khan (qv) Nawabzada Bahadur Khan, Deputy Inspector of Police in Rawalpindi Dist.

Nawab MUHAMMED HYAT KHAN C.S.I. -/1901, born 1833/1834, his cause was taken up by the British and they effected the family’s restoration to their patrimony and they undertook to educate Muhammad Hyat; he was taken on as a native orderly by Nicholson in 1851-1852 who later made him his official Persian interpreter; appointed as an officer under John Nicholson, with whom he ramained until the latters death in 1857, he played a significant part in helping Nicholson overcome rebellious Afghan chiefs in Peshawar, by raising a strong group of Afridis; he was initially appointed a Tahsildar (a junior revenue officer) in the Punjab and later shifted to the Frontier, serving in Kohat and later, Bannu (by which time he was an Extra Asst. Commissioner and Magistrate 1861). In 1865, he was sent on a mission to Kabul and wrote the famous Hyat I Afghan (Persian), translated as "A Report on Afghanistan and its Inhabitants" by H.B. Priestley in 1874. Between 1869-1879, he served as Asst. Political Agent at Kurram, on the Frontier; and was later one of the native assistants to Gen. Lord Roberts (of Kandahar) during the Afghan War of 1879; he was later posted to the Punjab where he remained a Sessions Judge, and later Member (Revenue) on the Punjab Council. He was granted extensive Jagirs in various parts of the Punjab, including his main seat, the Wah Revenue Estate or Jagir, also granted the title of Nawab [cr.1899]; married Zainab Khatun, daughter of Ghulam Jilani, Prime Minister of Kapurthala State; and had issue, five sons, as well as further issue, one son. He died 1901. Nawabzada Aslam Hayat Khan (qv)

Nawabzada Sardar Mahmood Hyat Khan, married and had issue, descendants living in Pakistan and elsewhere.

Sardar Ghairat Hyat Khan, died as a young man sp. Nawab Bahadur Sir Liaqat Hyat Khan, born 1st February 1887, Nawab [cr.1928], Kt. [cr.1932]; he began his career as a police official in Patiala, rose to be Minister for Interior and then Prime Minister of Patiala State; married 1stly, Ashraf Begum of Poonch in Kashmir, married 2ndly, an Indian Christian lady; married 3rdly, Shamshad, daughter of the Prime Minister of Patiala, married 4thly, a Punjabi Hindu lady, and had issue. Sardar Afzal Hyat Khan (by Ashraf Begum), married 1stly, Begum Kishwer Sultana, married 2ndly (his cousin, see below), Sardarni Talal Khatoon, born 1917, died 1984, daughter of Capt. Sardar Sir Sikander Hyat Khan, and his first wife, Zubaida Khatoon, and had issue, two sons and one daughter. Sardar Mohsin Hyat Khan (by Begum Kishwer Sultana), married Nadine Khanum, and had issue, three children. Omer Hyat Khan Sabrina Hyat Khan (Mrs. Sabrina Aftab) Taimur Hyat Khan

Sardar Ahsan Hyatt Khan (by Begum Kishwer Sultana), married Begum Ishrat Hyat, and had issue, three children. Zahid Hyatt Khan, married and has issue, three children. Aliza Hyatt Khan Alisha Hyatt Khan Ali Hyatt Khan Sanam Hyatt Khan (Mrs. Sanam Thariani), married and has issue, two children. Sasha Thariani Maya Thariani Rohail Hyatt Khan, married and has issue, three children.

Sheryar Hyatt Charmaine Hyatt Danyal Hyatt Nageen Hyat (by Talal Khatoon), married (her second cousin), Sardar Khawar Hyat Khan, son of Brigadier Sardar Azmat Hyat Khan, and has issue (see below). Sadiqah Khatun (by Ashraf Begum), married Nawab Ashiq Hussain Qureshi, born 1900, son of Riaz Hussain Qureshi, and had issue. Nawabzada Sadiq Hussain Qureshi, married and had issue. Sahibzada Riaz Hussain Qureshi, married Zarmina Durrani (see above) Nawabzada Nasim Hussain Qureshi Safiyah Khatun (by Ashraf Begum) Sakinah Khatun (by Ashraf Begum) Sughran Khatun (by Ashraf Begum) Sardar Asif Hyat Khan (by Sharif Begum), married 1stly (his cousin), Sardarni Talat Khatoon, daughter of Capt. Sardar Sir Sikander Hyat Khan (see below), married 2ndly, Veera, and had issue. Sardar Kaiser Hayat (by Talat Khatoon), married and has issue. Hector Iskander Hayat Yasser Alexander Hayat Khan Jabran Antonius Hayat Sardar Kamal Hyat (by Talat Khatoon), married Tousif Ali, daughter of Sardar Mazhar Ali Khan, and his wife, Begum Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan (see below), and has issue. Kamila Hyat Taimoor Hyat Khan, born February 1976.

Safina Samiuddin (by Veera) Nishat Hyat (by 2nd marriage), married Herbert Feldman. Sardar Arif Hyat (by Shamshad), born 1927, died 1984.

Sardar Asad Hyat (by Shamshad), married and has issue, one daughter. Naheen Hyat Samina Hyat (by Shamshad), born about 1935, married 1stly (div.), aged 15, Nawabzada Hebat Ali Khan of Tonk, eldest of the seven sons of the Nawab of Tonk, married 2ndly, Shakirullah Durrani, Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan, and had issue by both husbands. Rubina Begum (by 1st marriage), born about 1951, married 1968, Kemal (a commercial airplane pilot). Tehmina Durrani, born 18th February 1953, author of My Feudal Lord. Asim Durrani Minoo Durrani Zarmina Durrani, married Sahibzada Riaz Hussain Qureishi, son of Nawabzada Sadiq Hussain Qureishi Adila Durrani, born about 1966. Samar Hyat (by Shamshad), married Akhtar Mirza, a businessman, son of Khan Bahadur Mirza Mohammad Din, a successful engineer and businessman of pre-partition India and also the founder of Anjuman-e-Mughalia of India, a movement for the re-awakening of the Mughals in India who survived British persecution during the Raj period; and has issue, three children. Mehreen Mirza, married to a banker living in Dubai, and has issue, three children.

M. Omar Mirza, a banker in Dubai, married and has issue, three children.

Nageen Mirza, married and has issue, one son. Sardar Anees Hyat (by 4th marriage) (India) Capt. Sardar Sir Sikander Hyat Khan, born 5th June 1892 in Multan, Western Punjab, educated at M.A.O. College, Aligarh and University College, London; K.B.E., K.B. [cr.1933], D.O.L., recalled from London on the death of his elder brother and went into business on his own account, refusing offers to join junior governmental positions; he was successful in his projects, including the renowned ‘Wah Tea Estate’, Palampur, Kangra Valley, India, and the Lahore-Amritsar Railway, of which he remained a director; Asst. Recruiting Officer in the Punjab during WWI and received commendations for his efforts, as a result he became the first native Indian officer to obtain a King’s Commission 1918; served in Military Intelligence in Peshawar, during the Afghan War of 1919-1921; he joined the Punjab Unionist Party and participated in local bodies/grassroots elections and remained a member and chairperson of the Hasan Abdal area council; served as M.L.C. (Punjab) 1920/-; and was the first Indian to be appointed Acting Governor of the Punjab, in 1932 and 1934, on two separate occasions; acting Chief Minister of Bahawalpur 1928; appointed a Revenue Member of the Punjab Government in 1929, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India 1934/35, he was also the first native Indian to serve as Chairman of the Indian Cricket Board (he was very fond of cricket and hockey and had won college blues in both sports at Aligarh); leader of the Unionist Party 1936/1942, Governor of the Punjab 1937/1942; he was especially active in recruitment of troops for the war effort during WWII, and met Winston Churchill a number of times in Egypt and North Africa, where Indian Punjabi troops were mostly serving; he undertook many important reforms in the Punjab, including those of revenue, agriculture and others; he married 1stly, 12th May 1912, Begum Zubaida Khatun, died 1919, elder daughter of Mir Obaidullah, a prominent Kashmiri merchant settled in Amritsar, she had issue, one sona nd two daughters, married 2ndly, April 1920, Begum Aminah Khatun, younger daughter of Mir Obaidullah, married 3rdly, Sarda Bibi; born of a humble background, and had issue, ten children. He died 26th December 1942 at Lahore of a sudden heart attack, after the conclusion of the wedding festivities of three of his children, and was buried outside the old Badshahi Mosque, on the opposite side from Iqbal, the National Poet of Pakistan. Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan (by Zubaida Khatun), born 1913, married Khan Sahib Abdel Salim Khan Tarin of Dheri Talokar, and had issue. She died 2007. Khan Sahib Javed Salim Khan of Dheri Talokar, married Mrs. S. Javed Salim Khan, born 1946, and has issue (see below). Major Sardar Shauket Hyat Khan (by Zubaida Khatun), born 1915, a prominent Muslim League leader and a former Pakistan M.L.A. and Minister; married 25th December 1942 (his cousin), Begum Mussaret Sultana, and had issue, two sons and six daughters. He died 1998.

Sardar Sikander Hyat Khan, married 1stly, Samina, married 2ndly, Ayesha, and has issue, by second wife, one son and one daughter. Mohammed Ali Hyat Zainab Hyat Sardar Maqbool Hyat Khan, married Zara, and has issue, one son and two daughters. Noreen Hyat Anum Hyat Shahmir Hyat Khan Zubeida Hyat Farhana Hyat, married (div.), Saquib Hameed, and has issue, two sons. (Karachi, Pakistan) Shehryar Hameed, married Uzaira. Shehzad Hameed, married Maliha. Naureen Hyat Asma Hyat, married Ch. Khurram Khan. and has issue, four sons. Kamil Khan, married Farheen Khan.

Yasir Khan, married Dania Habib.

Adil Khan

Momin Khan, married Sara Kamal.

Lalarukh Hyat, married, Aslam Hayat Qureshi. (Islamabad, Pakistan) Uzma Hyat, married Iskander Bawkher, and has issue, one son and one daughter. Zuhare Bawkher Sahar Bawkher

Begum Tallat Hyat (by Zubaida Khatun), born 1917, married 1stly (her cousin), Sardar Asif Hyat Khan (see above), married 2ndly (her cousin), Sardar Afzal Hyat Khan (see above), and had issue. She died 1984.

Brig. Sardar Azmat Hyat Khan (by Aminah Khatun), born 1921, he was a war hero during World War II (Burma, D.S.O.); and was one of the founders and senior members of the early Pakistan Army; he married 1stly, Begum Khurshid Jehan Ara Azmat from the family of Hakeem Ahmad Shujah of Lahore, a prominent family of mystics, scholars and philosophers, married 2ndly, Tasneem Azmat from Sialkot, Punjab, and had issue, seven children. He died 1981. Sardar Yawar Hyat Khan B.A., born 1943 in Lahore, he is an Award-winning TV director and producer, educated at Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan (B.A.); one of the founding-directors of Pakistan Tele Vision (PTV) in 1964; married 1969 in Lahore, firstly, Sardarni Rakshanda Khan, married 2ndly, Sardarni Nasreen Khan, and has issue. Zaigham Ali Hyat Khan (by Sardarni Rakshanda) Yaser Ali Hyat Khan (by Sardarni Rakshanda) Tariq Ali Hyat Khan (by Sardarni Nasreen) Tahira Khan (by Sardarni Nasreen)

Namwar Khan (by Sardarni Nasreen) Hajrah Khan (by Sardarni Nasreen)

Mrs. S. Javed Salim Khan, born 1946, married Khan Sahib Javed Salim Khan of Dheri Talokar, and has issue. Sardar Khawar Hyat Khan, married (his second cousin), Nageen Hyat (see above), daughter of Sardar Afzal Hyat Khan, and his second wife, Talal Khatoon, and has issue.

Sadia Hyat

Daniyal Hyat Roxana Hyat Khan [Mrs. Roxana Farrakh Khan], married Lt.-Gen. (ret'd.) Choudhry Farrakh Khan, from a Bhatti Rajput family of Attock district, Punjab, former Chief of General Staff, Pakistan Army, and has issue. Mrs. Zeb Amin, married Colonel Umayr Amin, FFR, Pakistan Army. Mrs. Shazia Shuaib, married M. Shuiab, Superindentent of Police. Choudhry Fahad Khan, presently (2011) working as the Senior Vice-President Bank Alfalah, Pakistan; married and has issue. Choudhry Saad Khan, born 11th May 1979. Tabassam Hyat Khan [Mrs. Tabassam Moinuddin], born 1952, married 1970, Pirzada Badar Moinuddin Chishti, of the family of the Sufi Saint Hazrat Sheikh Baba Faridudin Masud Ganj-Shakar, of Pakpattan, and has issue. Ali Moinuddin Chishti, living and working in Canada.

Raza Moinuddin Chishti, born 15th August 1976 in Lahore, married 2004, Dr Rabia Moinuddin, and has issue, one daughter. Hamza Moinuddin Chishti, presently (2011) working as a banker in Lahore. Sardar Amir Hyat (U.S.A.)

Amna Hyat, married (div.). (Lahore, Pakistan) Tahira Hyat [Begum Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan] (by Sarda Bibi), born 1925, educated at Queen Mary School, Lahore; married Sardar Mazhar Ali Khan, died 1993, a paternal second cousin and son of Nawab Muzaffar Ali Khan, and had issue. Sardar Tariq Ali, born 21st October 1943 in Lahore, educated at Punjab University and Exeter College, Oxford; author of The Book of Saladin (1998); The Stone Woman (2000) and others; married 2ndly, Susan Watkins, and has issue.

Natasha Ali (by 1st marriage)

Sardar Chengiz Ali (by Susan)

Aisha Ali (by Susan) Maher Ali, journalist. Tousif Ali [Mrs. Tousif Hyat], married Kamal Hyat (see above), and has issue. Ismat Hyat (by Sarda Bibi) Sardar Riffat Hyat (by Sarda Bibi) Sardar Izzat Hyat (by Sarda Bibi) Zarafa Hyat (by Sarda Bibi), a published Punjabi Poet, died 2010.

Sardar Ghairat Hyat (by Sarda Bibi) Sardar Barkat Hyat Khan, married (his cousin), Mahmooda Begum, and had issue, two sons and two daughters.

Begum Nasreen Nizam Shah, married and has issue, one son and three daughters. Sardar Farrukh Hyat Khan, married and has issue, three children. Sardar Nadeem Hyat Khan Humaira Hyat and Saira Hyat-Malik. Begum Tasneem Yahya Effendi, mother of two sons, Ahad and Ali. Sardar Farooq Hyat Khan, married Durdana Aleem, and has issue, three children. Faisal Hyat Khan Saleha Hyat Dr. Salman Hyat Khan Nawab ASLAM HYAT KHAN, Chief/Head of the Wah family 1901/1924, born 1885, married and had issue, descendants living in Pakistan and some in the U.S.A. He died 1924.

Nawabzada Masood Hyat Khan, born 1915, married and had issue. He died 1955.

Nawabzada Saleem Hyat Khan, born 1936, married and had issue, two sons and a daughter. He died 1962.

Nawabzada Muazzam Hyat Khan, born 1956, married into the Gakkhar Raja family of Khanpur jagir, in nearby Hazara region of NWFP, and had issue, two sons and two daughters. He died 1990.

Sardar Yusuf Hyat Khan, born 29th September 1960, educated in the U.S.A. (B.B.A.); presently living and working in the USA; married 1994 in Wah, Northern Punjab, Pakistan, Mrs. Blair Hyat Khan, and has issue, two daughters. (U.S.A.) Pk263859 (talk) 22:51, 14 November 2011 (UTC)