Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli
Nawab
Nawab Shahib
11th last Nawab of Kingdom of Amb
Reign1936–1969
Born(1904-01-01)1 January 1904
Amb, British Raj
Died(1969-07-028)28 July 1969
Darband, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Burial1969
Names
Nawab Sir Khan Bahadur Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli
DynastyTanoli[1]
FatherMuhammad Khan Zaman Khan
ReligionSunni Islam
Military career
AllegianceBritish Raj , Pakistan
RankNawab
Battles/warsIndo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 , Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

Nawab Sir Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli, GBE , GCVO was the last ruling Nawab of the princely state of Amb, from 1936 till 1969. In 1947 he acceded his state to the Dominion of Pakistan. A small state in a subsidiary alliance with British India, in 1958 Amb was reported to have an area of 590 square miles and a population of 48,656.[2]

Seated left to right Sahibzada Mohammad Khurshid, Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Nawab Sir Muhammad Farid Khan Tanoli of Amb (Tanawal), and Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, Thanking to the Nawab Amb for help in Indo-pak war 1947-1948 at Darband, Amb, in 1949.

After 1947

After the independence of Pakistan in 1947, Amb became fully independent, and remained so for the rest of 1947, but on 31 December the Nawab acceded his state to Pakistan.[3]

Nawab Farid khan Tanoli's contributions to the Pakistan movement were acknowledged by the Quaid e Azam.[4][5]

References

  1. "Ancestor Database - Tano Khel -.-> تنو خېل". Archived from the original on 26 September 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. Amiya Ranjan Mukherjee, Current Affairs (1958), p. 337
  3. Z. H. Zaidi, CHRONOLOGY OF ACCESSION OF STATES TO PAKISTAN in Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Papers: The States (Quaid-i-Azam Papers Project, 1993), p. xxxix
  4. Mahomed Ali Jinnah, Z. H. Zaidi, Quaid-I-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Papers: First Series, Volume III: On the Threshold of Pakistan, July 1–25, 1947 (Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-969-8156-07-7, 1120 pp.)
  5. Sana Haroon, Frontier of faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan borderland (Columbia University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-231-70013-9, 254 pp.)


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