•
Mullah Naqib (c.1950 – October 11, 2007), famous
freedom fighter during the
Soviet–Afghan War, politician and peace maker from Kandahar. He was one of the most respected elders of the Alakozai Pashtun tribe in the Kandahar area. •
Queen Zarghoona Alakozai (mother of
King Ahmad Shah Durrani, founder of the
Durrani Empire). • Abdul Ghani Alakozai, governor of Nadirabad and chieftain of the
Durrani, under
King Nader Shah. • Juma Khan Alakozai, governor of
Kashmir (1788–1792). His administration was faced by serious floods,
Shia–
Sunni riots and rioting by the Bambas. He died of
dysentery in 1792. • Abdullah Khan Alakozai, governor of Kashmir (1795–1807, under
King Zaman Shah Durrani). • Yar Mohammad Khan Alakozai (Died June 11, 1851) Minister under
King Shahzada Kamran Durrani. Minister-regent at
Herat, he served as
Vizier of Herat from 1829 to 1842. In Early 1842 he deposed Kamran Shah and ruled Herat until his death on June 11, 1851. He was the son of 'Ata Mohammad Khan Alakozai, vizier of Herat from 1818 to 1829. • Sa'id Mohammad Khan Alakozai, son of Yar Muhammad Khan and ruled Herat from June 11, 1851, to September 1855. Herat was briefly occupied by
Iran in the spring of 1852 due to an attempted invasion of the Kandahar Sardars. • Queen Alakozai, stepmother of King
Dost Mohammad Khan of Afghanistan, and wife of Sardār Pāyenda Khan, chief of the
Barakzai clan. •
Salman Salim Khan (born Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan, 27 December 1965) is an Indian actor, film producer, and television personality who predominantly works in
Hindi films. In a career spanning over three decades,
his awards include two
National Film Awards as a film producer, and two
Filmfare Awards as an actor. He has been cited in the media as one of the most popular and commercially successful actors of
Indian cinema.
Forbes included him in listings of the highest-paid celebrities in the world, in 2015 and 2018. According to Salim, his paternal great-grandparents are Alakozai
Pashtuns from
Afghanistan who immigrated to
Indore State,
Indore Residency (now in
Madhya Pradesh),
British India in the mid-1800s; however, author Jasim Khan in his biography of the actor states that his ancestors belonged to the
Akuzai sub-tribe of the
Yusufzai Pashtuns from
Malakand in the
Swat Valley of
North-West Frontier Province,
British India (present-day
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan). His grandfather Abdul Rashid Khan was a Deputy Inspector General of the
Indore state who was awarded the Diler Jung award of the Holkar times. ==See also==