A number of Panni Pashtuns migrated from their homeland in the
Koh-i-Suleiman and
Balochistan to the
Lodi Sultanate of Afghan king
Bahlul Lodi. During the time of Sultan
Sher Shah Suri, the powerful
Rohtas Fort of Bihar was garrisoned by 10,000 matchlock men with command entrusted on Ikhtiyar Khan Panni, one of the Amirs of the Sultan. The head of the eastern Afghan confederacy,
Sultan Daud Karrani is known to have had Panni generals, who were Jahan Khan Panni and Jamal Khan Panni. ==People==