BIO, INTRO, CONTEXT… I was requested to write an “intro” to the context of myself and my work, to submit somewhere…..below is the original in English, and below that is its translation in Cyrillic Tajiki Farsi: I am the descendant of medieval Tajik sultans who belonged to the Shalmani-Sawadi (Swati)…

MENTION OF SWATI RULERS IN “ZAKHIRA TUL MULOOK” The famous book "ZAKHIRA TUL MULOOK" [Education of the Princes], by the famous 14th Century Iranian-Kashmiri saint, Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani -- in which he mentions several minor Tajik Swati princes who were at that time under the overall tutelage of the…

PRE-PAKISTAN PERIOD (1917–1947) Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (alias Bacha Khan) was the descendant of unknown Central Asian migrants to Charsadda in the Sikh era who “became Pashtun” and joined the Khwajukhel clan of the Muhammadzais. He was a “Congressite” from the start of his career in 1917 till 1947, though…

OVERVIEW A LOOK at the path to my Y-Haplogroup Q2b1a1b/Q-BZ528 as plotted on the Scaled Innovation SNP tracker program [1] reveals a recent history that is fairly interesting as well as revealing. The timeframe of history we are here concerned with, covers the last four mutations (including the present one)…

Earlier this year, on 2 and 5 January, I had published news about the genetic patrilineal match between me and Mr. Sharafat Miakhil of Ningarhar Province, Afghanistan. Mr. Miakhil is descended from one of the four major Papini patriarchs, Mian (or Mia) Burhan (aka Mia Baba). His family had previously…

RUMINATIONS ON MY GENETICS AND SWATI HISTORY According to the population genetics tool “SNP Tracker”, my Y haplogroup Q-BZ528 mutated somewhere in about the year 1200 AD, in the very center of the Sulaiman Mountains, above the present location of Dera Ghazi Khan. Its immediately preceding parent clade (branch) of…

Muhammad Ibn Suri (c. 940–1010 AD) was an ancestor of Sultan Shahabuddin Ghori (or Ghuri) — who managed quite comfortably to juggle a superficial Islamic identity with his core faith mixture of Zoroastrianism and Hinduism. That was typical in his time: in lower Eastern Iran/lower Khorasan [now Afghanistan] after the…

This article is in continuation of my previous article on ON THE SHALMANIS AND THEIR ORIGINS. Here the issue of Assyrian origins of the Swatis-Shalmanis will be further explored in connection with the name “Swati” itself and how it was derived. “Sawad” is a Sassanian revenue term used for the…

THE ENIGMA OF HAJI QASIM Haji Muhammad Qasim Shalmani is said to have been a charismatic leader figure and adventurer, active across the Peshawar Valley and its surroundings in the second half of the 18th Century. Despite finding mention in many historic sources, he remains a mystery being highly enigmatic…