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Mir Ahmad Yar Khan Ahmedzai GCIE (1902–1979), commonly referred to as Ahmad Yar Khan, was the last Khan of Kalat, a princely state in a subsidiary alliance with British India and the Dominion of Pakistan, serving from 10 September 1933 to 14 October 1955.
The Khanate of Kalat, also known as the Baloch-Brahui Confederacy, [3] [2] was a Brahui Khanate that originated in the modern-day Kalat region of Pakistan.Formed in 1666 due to the threat of Mughal expansion in the region, [4] [5] it controlled the wider Balochistan at its greatest extent in the mid-18th century, [2] extending from Kerman in the west to Sindh in the east and from Helmand River ...
After that, Mir Ahmad Yar Khan founded a madrasa called "Jamia Nasiriya" in memory of his grandfather to educate Baloch students. [7] In 1942, the governor of Kalat instructed the head of the Jamia Nasiriya to select thirty talented students who were academically advanced to send to Darul Uloom Deoband for further study. The scholars who went ...
Moreover, Kalat's Prime Minister was an Indian Government deputy who did not answer to the khan. [30] In 1933 Ahmad Yar Khan became the Kalat's ruler with an insecure place in the Baluch-Brahui confederacy. [28] To obtain complete control of Kalat, he requested the Government of India to restore his authority.
The area became the Kalat Division when the Union was dissolved. The first head of the Union was the Khan of Kalat, Ahmad of Kalat. The main governing body was the Council of Rulers which comprised the Khan-e-Azam Khan of Kalat, the Jam of Lasbela and the Nawabs of Kharan and Makran.
Kalat finally acceded to Pakistan on 27 March 1948 after the 'strange help' of All India Radio and a period of negotiations and bureaucratic tactics used by Pakistan. [3] The signing of the Instrument of Accession by Ahmad Yar Khan , led his brother, Prince Abdul Karim , to revolt against his brother's decision [ 5 ] in July 1948. [ 6 ]
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Agha Mir Suleman Dawood Jan Ahmedzai (Balochi: آغا میر سلیمان داوود خان احمدزی) is the 35th Khan of Kalat, a position he has held since the death of his father, Mir Dawood Jan, in 1998. [1] Currently, he lives in self-imposed exile in Wales. His only son, Prince Mir Mohammad Khan Ahmadzai, is estranged from him. [2]