The famous figure in Kunduz is Haji Mohammad Omar Khan who is a brother of a Pashtoon Leader and Governor of Kunduz Province, Arif Khan.

Omar Khan served many posts as a Governor of Kunduz Province, Member of National Assembly and is an active Advisor Minister to the President Hamid Karzai.

Some include Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan, Dr. Najibullah President of Afghanistan, Mohammad Omar, Ustad Mojadidi, Professor Rabani, Gorbachov former president of Russia.

His half-brother, Mohammad Omar, whose mother is of high rank and of much ability and ambition, might give trouble, but he is only a boy of twelve, and his mother's great supporter, the commander-in-chief, Gholam Haidar Khan, has lately died.

They trace their family tree to Abdal ( the first and founder of the Abdali tribe ), through Hajji Jamal Khan, Yousef, Yaru, Mohammad, Omar Khan, Khisar Khan, Ismail, Nek, Daru, Saifal, and Barak.

A meeting of the group was held in August 2009 in Peshawar by members including Salim Saifullah Khan, Hamid Nasir Chattha, Humayun Akhtar Khan, Gohar Ayub Khan, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Muhammad Ali Durrani, Sumera Malik, Lala Nisar, Kashmala Tariq, Iqbal Dar and Omar Ayub Khan.

A grand-daughter of his is married to Omar Ayub Khan, who is the grandson of former Pakistani President Ayub Khan and son of Gohar Ayub Khan.

On December 31, 2009, senior Taliban leader and strong Haqqani ally Haji Omar Khan, brother of Arif Khan, was killed in the strike along with the son of local tribal leader Karim Khan.

An examination of the unexploded bomb discarded by Omar Khan Sharif showed that it had been hidden in a book and contained standard explosives.

In addition, Hamas spokesman identified the perpetrators as British Muslims Asif Muhammad Hanif, 22, from London and Omar Khan Sharif, 27, from Derby.

During his early age, Farid was given a village in Fargana, Shahabad ( comprising present day districts of Bhojpur, Buxar, Bhabhua of Bihar ) by Omar Khan, the counselor and courtier of Bahlul Khan Lodi.

His brother Haji Omar Khan assumed his responsibilities.

The German disco group Dschinghis Khan also released a song entitled " Hadschi Halef Omar " on their 1980 album " Rom.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan is accompanied by his three sons: Dara Shikoh, Shah Shuja ( Mughal ) | Shah Shuja and Aurangzeb, including their maternal grandfather Abul-Hasan ibn Mirza Ghiyas Beg | Asaf Khan IV.

* Qulpa becomes Khan of the Blue Horde after the death of Berdi Beg.

* Nawruz Beg overthrows his brother Qulpa as Khan of the Blue Horde.

* Berdibek succeeds Jani Beg as Khan of the Blue Horde.

** Jani Beg, Khan of the Blue Horde

Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan ( his official name and title ) is referred to as Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, or just Mirza Ghalib.

When Babur took Kandahar in 1506 CE, from Shah Beg Arghun, he sent Khan Mirza as governor to Badakhshan.

Sultan Shah returned slew the Governor and regained his country He was attacked by another rival Turrah Baz Khan who supported by Khizri Beg advanced on Faizabad and besieged it.

The territory Mir Muhammad Shah divided as follows Iskashim was given to Mir Khan ; Rushan to Shah Wali and Warduj to Mahmud Khan brother of Mir Ahmad Beg Kataghan.

In fact Badakhshan was now contested by again by Mir Yar Beg, Sikandar Shah, Shahzada Mahmud, Abdul Ghazi Khan and Shah Suliman Beg who were in exile at Tashkurghan under protection of Mir Wali.

He then wrote to Mir Atalik Beg, Chief of Kunduz, requesting his aid against Yusuf Ali Khan and Mir Shah to drive them out of Rustak.

Shah Sulaiman Beg received Dara Aim ; Nasrullah Khan got Kashmir and Mashad.

Uzbeg Khan, Simeon's sovereign, died soon afterwards ; his successor, Jani Beg, secured the control of the Horde through killing his brothers.

In imperial Persia, Khan ( female form Khanum ) was the title of a nobleman, higher than Beg ( or bey ) and usually used after the given name.

* Beg Khan

* Nineveh and Its Remains: A Narrative of an Expedition to Assyria 1867, Massacre of Nestorians by Bedr Khan Beg, Pages 129 – 174.

His father Major Abbas Ali Khan ( Dadash Beg ) became commissioned in the 7th Savadkuh Regiment, and served in the Anglo-Persian War in 1856.

Yaqub Beg and his son Ishana Beg's corpses were " burned to cinders ", on display, this angered the population in Kashgar, but Chinese troops quashed a rebellious plot by Hakim Khan to rebel.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan is accompanied by his and Mumtaz Mahal's three sons: Dara Shikoh, Shah Shuja and Aurangzeb, including their maternal grandfather Abul-Hasan ibn Mirza Ghiyas Beg | Asaf Khan IV.

When Shah Jahan travelled from Balapur fort, to Burhanpur, mother of Mirza Azam and elder daughter of Shahzada Badi uz-Zaman Mirza, alias Shah Nawaz Khan of the Safawi dynasty Dilrus Banu, wife of Aurangazeb along with Mumtaz and cousin / brother Shah Beg Khan, along with military personnel-stayed three nights near Argaon at Hiwarkhed, before the birth of their fourteenth child.

* Khan Mohammed Ali ( Kokand )

For the first few years, he was a vassal of the Khan of Kokand, but eventually declared independence.

Trying ( not always successfully ) to prevent repetition of incursions of Afaqi khojas from Kokand into Kashgaria, such as those of Jahangir Khoja in the 1820s or Wali Khan in 1857, Qing government had increased the troops level in Xinjiang to some 50, 000.

The agreement was confirmed later by the following Kokand rulers: Narbuta Biy ( 1770-1798 ), Alim Khan ( 1798-1810 ), Omar Khan ( 1810-1822 ), and Muhammad Ali Khan ( 1822-1842 ).

He left Kokand for Bukhara in an ill-fated attempt to rescue fellow officer Colonel Charles Stoddart in November 1841 and both were executed in 1842 by Madali Khan.

Despite the best efforts of Omar ’ s widow, the famed poetess Nadira, Madali Khan excelled at cruelty and debauchery, giving Emir Nasrullah Khan of Bukhara an excuse to invade Kokand in 1842.

Preferring their own cruel and debauched despots over outsiders, the people of Kokand soon rebelled, and installed Madali Khan ’ s cousin Shir Ali on the throne.

He was succeeded by his son Nasir ad-din Abdul Karim Khan, whose anti-Russian stance provoked the annexation of Kokand ( after fierce fighting for 6 months with Russian forces ) by Generals Konstantin Petrovich Von Kaufman and Mikhail Skobelev.

" Imitation of Timurids and Pseudo-Legitimation: On the origins of a manuscript anthology of poems dedicated to the Kokand ruler Muhammad Ali Khan ( 1822 – 1842 )".