Malik Akor Khan Khattak

Malik Akor Khan Khattak , a 16th-century chieftain of the Khattak tribe and contemporary of Mughal emperor Akbar. He was the great-grandfather of Khushal Khattak. Akora Khattak town in Nowshera district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan was founded by and named after him.

It was during 1581 when a Mughal emperor ‘Jalal ud Din Muhammad Akbar’ paid a visit to the city of Peshawar in an effort to curb the mutiny of his own brother ‘Mirza Hakim’ and remained over there for a few years. During his stay in Peshawar, he arranged the meeting (Tribal Jirga) of all the tribal chiefs for the betterment of the law and order situation. The name Malik Akor Khan came into consideration who was residing at Neelab (Khwara) and struggling for independence from the Mughal emperor. Because Malik Akor Khan had direct control over the major pathway at the crossing of the Indus River at Attock that trade caravans were using at that time. Therefore,  the Mughal emperor’s solution to this problem was thought that the king make him a government servant so the king gave him the responsibility of taking toll tax from the caravans on the crossing of the Indus at Attock.
Malik Akor Khan came to the Sarai Malik Pura (Akora Khattak) for this purpose and made this area his living place after some time this place was renamed Sarai Akor Khattak and by the passing of time its name became “Akora Khattak”.

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