Sado Khan

Sado Khan (1558 Multan - 1621 CE) was a Pashtun figure, and the ancestor of the Sadozai clan of the Abdali Pashtun tribe, to which belongs Ahmad Shah Abdali and some known families of Multan. He succeeded his father as chief of the Habibzai section of the tribe, but due to his "bravery and ability" he was selected by the Abdalis (later known as Durrani), then living between Kandahar and Herat, to be their overall leader in 1598.[1]

Shadi Khan, the governor of the Emperor Akbar at Kandahar, was hostile to Sado Khan, so he went over to the interests of Abbas I of Persia, who had lost Kandahar in 1594 and was intriguing for its recovery. This he effected in 1621, after Akbar’s death. Sado Khan died in 1626 leaving five sons, from whom have descended several well-known clans of the Durrani tribe. The descendants of Sado Khan are known as Sadozai,[nb 1] and one branch of the family, to which Ahmad Shah Durrani, Timur Shah, Zaman Shah, Hassan Javaid Khan and Shuja Shah Durrani belonged, reigned for many years in Kabul.[1]

Notes

  1. ↑ A clan of the Niazi tribe, called Sadozai, inhabits the village of Doda on tho Indus. They are not, however, connected with the family of Sado Khan.

References

  1. 1 2 Sir Lepel Henry Griffin (1890). The Panjab chiefs: historical and biographical notices of the principal families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi divisions of the Panjab. pp. 74–. Retrieved 17 April 2012.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: The Panjab chiefs: historical and biographical notices of the principal families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi divisions of the Panjab, by Sir Lepel Henry Griffin (1905)

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