Kheshgi

The Kheshgi or Khaishgi (Pashto: خیشکی) is a prominent Sarbani Pashtun tribe and Imperial dynasty in South Asia, mainly in India and Pakistan.^[1][2][3]

Administration

The Kheshgi tribe is divided into the following sub-tribes:^[5]

• Umerzai
• Utmanzai
• Ismail

Notable Kheshgis

• Zakir Husain
  , third President of India
• Nawab Hussain Khan Kheshgi, founder of the city of Kasur (now in Pakistan)
• Waliullah Kheshgi, Pakistani diplomat
• Mahmood Hasan Khan, Indian Member of Parliament
• Ahmad Raza Khan Kasuri, lawyer, politician, founder of multinational law firm Kasuri PLLC
• Haji Bahadar Ali Abdullah Shah, Sufi saint
• four-star general of the Pakistan Army, former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, 7th Governor of Balochistan, 16th Governor of Sindh
• Nawab Muzaffar Khan Khaishgi, founder of Muzaffargarh, Governor of Multan
• three-star general of the Pakistan Army, 13th Governor of Balochistan
• Nawab Jamaluddin Khan Kheshgi, founder of Mamdot
• Foreign Minister
• Fayaz Khan Kheshgi, Pakistani musician
• Nawab Muhammad Ahmed Khan Kasuri, former Nawab of Kasur
• Senain Kheshgi, film director, writer and producer
• Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, former Prime Minister of Pakistan
• Mohammad Iqbal Azizi, Afghan governor
• Nawab Sir Shahnawaz Khan Mamdot, politician, Punjabi landlord
• Asma Mamdot, Pakistani politician
• Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions, Deputy Minister of Defense, Foreign Affairs and Finance
• Masud Husain Khan, Indian linguist
• Salman Khurshid Alam, Indian politician
• two-star general of the Pakistan Army
• Yousuf Hussain Khan
  , Indian historian, scholar, educationist, critic and author
• Nawab Iftikhar Hussain Khan Mamdot, former Chief Minister of West Punjab and former Governor of Sindh

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