Genealogy of Hunza State

 

Above: Coat of Arms of Hunza State. The Arabic text above the flag, "Allahu Akbar", means "Allah is the Greatest"

The rulers of Hunza were officially called "Tham" which meant "King" in the local Burushaski language - a language isolate - but were known over time as "Mir" by foreigners. "Mir" is the Persian version of the Arabic title "Emir". The Royal House of Hunza was known as the House of Girkis and was related by origin to rulers of Nagar State (House of Maghlot) and the Rajas of Gilgit (House of Shah Malik). 

The story of the dynasty's origin connects it to the local Buddhist monarchs of Gilgit and Iranian noblemen fleeing the Rashidun conquest of Persia (Sassanid Empire). However, it is more of a family legend though that does not mean it does not contain a grain of truth at all. On the contrary the opposite might be true.

Notes: 

• The dates for reigns are based upon the works of Qudratullah Beg.
• Chinese Turkestan is now called "Xinjinag" - officially "Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region"
• The genealogy collected by Major Yousaf Khan (R) in 2004 does not mention female offspring. I had to use other sources like Qudratullah Beg and newspapers to find information on them and I admit that part is incomplete. If you have corrections or changes, you can email at nooraminnawab@gmail.com  

The connection to local Buddhist monarchs is as follows:

Kesar

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Bagartham

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Agartham

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Sri Badad 

(aka. Shri Badat / Sri Badat)

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Nur Bakht Khatun 

(with whom we treat)

The connection with Iranian noblemen fleeing the Rashidun conquest of Persia is as follows:

• N. - an unnamed Iranian nobleman had two sons who fled to Baltistan:
• Abdul Ghani
• Abul Faiz - m. the Queen of Baltistan (who ruled from Skardu) and had issue:
• Yaqut Shah - m. and had issue, 2 sons:
• Shah Murad 
• Azar Jamshed (aka. Uzar Shamsher) - with whom we treat 

Sri Badat was a cannibal and tyrant. Because of this Azar Jamshed killed him. Azar Jamshed had also married Sri Badat's daughter Nur Bakht Khatun and they had a son whom they were forced to hid by putting him in a wooden box and setting him off on the Gilgit River to ensure his cannibalistic grandfather won't eat him. Azar Jamshed then mistakenly killed his foster brother Barcha and in regret committed suicide. His wife succeeded him as ruler of Gilgit and their son was accidentally discovered when the nobility offered him to become her husband - at that point a noblemen who remembered the whole story revealed to them he was in fact her long lost son whom they had to hide from Sri Badat. 

• Azar Jamshed married Nur Bakht Khatun d/o Sri Badat and had issue, a son:
• Su Malik (aka. Gark/Kark)
• Shah Malik - ancestor of the Rajas of Gilgit (see Rajas of Gilgit)
• Deeng Malik
• Son - predeceased his father 
• Mir Malik
• Sahib Khan
• Daulat (Dullah) Shah 
• Shah Malik II - m. a lady from Baltistan named Hasham Begum and had 3 sons:
• Shah Tham (see below)
• Bugha Tham
• Noni Tham

An invader from Ladakh named Lama Yol Kisar invaded after the death of Shah Malik II dispersing his sons. They ended up in Afghanistan according to Major Yousaf Khan (R). 

• Shah Tham married into the House of Gilgit and had issue, a son:
• Lali Tham married Shumul Gas the sister of Torra Khan of Gilgit and had issue, twin sons:
• Sahib Khan (Girkis) - ancestor of the Mirs of Hunza (see below)
• Maghlot - ancestor of the Mirs of Nagar State (see Mirs of Nagar)

The twins were born conjoined but as soon as they were separated, they became sworn rivals of each other to the point their father realized he would have to keep them apart from each other and so he even ended up dividing his domains into two giving Hunza to Girkis and Nagar to Maghlot to keep them from fighting each other over the throne. However, this did not stop Maghlot from killing Girkis - he tricked him into visiting Nagar for a hunt and killed him there. 

• Sahib Khan (Girkis)
• Noor Bibi -married twice depending on narrations: Daulat "Dullah" Shah s/o Maghlot (1st), Shah Khan I (Ayasho, 2nd). Her marriage with Ayasho is confirmed but whether she actually married Daulat Shah and had a son with him (legitimate or illegitimate) is debatable.
• Ali Dad of Nagar (s/o Daulat Shah) - all subsequent Nagar Mirs are his descendants (see Mirs of Nagar)
• Mayuri Tham (s/o Shah Khan I "Ayasho) (see below)

Noor Bibi was the only child of Girkis so she succeeded her father as ruler of Hunza. In the meantime, she began a relationship with Daulat Shah of Nagar (Nagaris say it was secret marriage, Hunzais say it was a love affair) and this worried the people of Hunza because not only was it scandalous, but it also threatened Hunza falling under Nagar's rule. They thus found her a husband, a great-grandson of Shah Tham and Hasham Begum who was living in Afghanistan - as per the descendants - named Shah Khan I. He was later known as "Ayasho" meaning "Descended from Heavens". When Ayasho died leaving behind a son, it was feared Noor Bibi would try to marry Daulat Shah and so she was placed under house arrest in her foster father's house thouse some traditions say she was able to marry him. Nobody knows for sure.

• Mayuri Tham married Shah Begum d/o Mir of Darwaz (1) and Meeru Khan d/o Mir Jehan Khan (2), had issue, a son:
• Ayasho II "the Left-handed" (mother unspecified as to which wife) married Shah Khatoon d/o Abdaal Khan of Baltistan (Maqpon dynasty), had issue 7 sons:
• Haider Shah - abdicated/exiled then killed, had issue, a son:
• Shah Khan II
• Ghulam Nasir - succeeded his father but real power was in hands of wazir Dudaar. Killed by Khusrau Khan
• Yousaf Shah - natural death in mysterious circumstances 
• Shaheem
• Shah Bibi - according to Major Yousaf Khan (R) Shaheem was son of Mirza nor Yousaf Shah but Qudratullah Beg says otherwise. Beg's view is shown here.
• Meerza - died (i.e. was not killed)
• Malik - married a daughter of the Raja of Gilgit, he died 
• Salim - died
• Hari Tham - ruler of Nagar on two separate occasions
• Rasheed Khan - his fate is unknown
• Sultan - married Bibi Ghoras d/o Jabbar Khan of Baltistan (Maqpon Dynasty), had issue two sons:
• Shah Abbas/Shaboz/Shahbaz
• Sikandar
• Chillis Khan
• Shah Beg
• Khusrau Khan (see below)
• Ali Khan - married into the family of Rajas of Punial
• Shoat - ruled as Raja of Punial. He had no children

 Ayasho II's sons all ruled in succession starting with the eldest Hader Shah and ending with Sultan the Youngest however some sources say they succeeded each other when the latter died or willingly abdicated other sources say each brother killed or exiled predecessor. The fates mentioned above are those mentioned by the descendants. 

Mir Salim s/o Ayasho II lived in Yardand (Chinese Turkestan) for 24 years before he was crowned. It was during his time Hunza became known as "Kanjut":

 

Source: Qudratullah Beg's work

Hunza became a Chinese vassal state through the efforts of Mir Salim Khan and as per the agreement Hunza was to receive a Chinese agent called the Daroogha each year to ensure Kyrgyz raiders did not raid Hunza and that Hunza would not establish relations with state China did not want. Afterwards the Daroogha would return to Yarqand with the report. The Daroogha would bring presents for the Mir of Hunza too. This tradition lasted till the time of Mir Khisrau of Hunza.

When Mir Salim died, the last two sons of Ayasho II, Sultan and Hari Tham divided Hunza among themselves with Sultan ruling from Altit and Hari Tham from Baltit. Hari Tham realized that just 3 villages were too less to rule and so they reached a mutual agreement whereby one of them would vacate Hunza and other take possession of Nagar after they captured it together. Eventually it was decided that Hari Tham would get Nagar after conquering it.

To capture Nagar, they used a Hunzai woman Minali d/o Phoot and her Nagari husband Jato Minalo. They gave Minali lots of special silk/cloth and told her to win the sympathy of Raja Ali Dad of Nagar’s courtmen and distribute the cloth amongst them and tell them these were gifts from her. In the meantime Minali was to also tell Ali Dad that the Mir of Hunza was conspiring against him and has bribed lots of his courtmen and has gifted them Hunzai clothes that they wore as mufflers and shawls. Ali Dad believed her and imprisoned all the men with those special Hunzai cloth in Hispar and called a great deal of his troops to secure the prison thus leaving borders largely unguarded.

Hari Tham then attacked Nagar and Ali Dad - a fat, lazy and unpopular ruler - managed to hop out of bed and escaped through a backside window and went to Baltistan. Hari Tham released all the imprisoned courtmen and reinstated their positions and gave them gifts. He ruled for an unconfirmed number of years (some say 7 or so) before Ali Dad returned and Hari Tham and his son Rashid Khan were forced to flee to Kashmir. Ali Dad then apologized to his courtmen and beheaded Jato Manalo for his role in the conspiracy - his wife however escaped to Hunza where she remarried to a man from Chaboykutz clan named Chaboy Bati and left descendants.

Hari Tham did later return to Hunza from Kashmir but his son Rashid did not - some say he fell in love with a prostitute in Kashmir while others say he died on the way to Kashmir but nobody knows for sure.

Back in Hunza Hari Tham asked his brother Sultan for support in attacking Nagar to which he agreed and they attacked Nagar which was now under the rule of Ali Dad’s son Shah Kamal. Shah Kamal was defeated like his father and fled to Baltistan and Hari Tham again took over but this time after nearly 3 years he learned that Hari Tham was no longer a popular ruler in Nagar because of the harsh and unreasonable taxes he had imposed on the people. He asked the ruler of Baltistan to assist him and he did. Afterwards he asked a saint named Shah Burya Wali (Sangeen Ali the ancestor of Chitral’s Katoor dynasty was actually the keeper of Wali’s tomb) to pray for his victory and defeated Hari Tham who fled to Hunza where his brother Sultan had died and his son Shah Abbas now ruled. Shah Kamal however did not abolish the taxes imposed on people by Hari Tham.

Sultan was himself a cruel ruler known for making men do forced labor for his projects. When he died his two sons began fighting over the throne. Baltit backed Shah Abbas and Altit backed Ali Khan while Ganish (third of the three villages in the state) remained neutral. It was Shah Abbas who managed to convince Ganish to join his side and together they attacked Altit and killed Ali Khan and his son Shoat went into hiding - the Raja of Punial was his maternal uncle so he fled there and once his uncle died childless he took over and ruled ruthlessly till he was himself killed by the Mehtar of Chitral at a very old age - he had no children. Shah Abbas then killed Hari Tham by sending an assassin and himself died naturally and was succeeded by his Shah Beg. 

Shah Beg repelled a Nagari invasion and ruled for nearly 7 years after which he was killed by Hunzai rebels whose leaders included Haider Khan’s son Shah Khan II who became the next ruler. Shag Beg’s son Khusrau Khan fled to Darel. In the meantime Shah Khan II had a wazir (vizier) named Dudaar. Shah Khan II died and his minor son Ghulam Naseer succeded him but power was in hands of Dudaar and elders of Ganish and Baltit did not like this and so invited Khusrau Khan to come back and take over as Dudaar had appointed a wazir in Baltit and Ganish as well and made himself (based in Altit) their chief and effectively the head of state. Khusrau Khan returned and Dudaar fled and Ghulam Naseer was killed. He was now the ruler of Hunza. In his reign a Nagari invasion of Shimshal was repelled when the invaders were ambushed and the captives released.

It was also in Khusrau Khan’s time that the Hunzai possessions in China were increased through purchases by his son Salim as well as by grants by the Chinese officials. Salim was sent to renew the oath of loyalty to China and it was decided that the tradition of China sending a Daroogha will now be replaced with the Elchi system - Hunza would send envoys (called Elchis) to Yarqand with tribute each year and in turn receive presents for the Mir of Hunza and his men.

• Khusrau Khan - married a daughter of Rahim Khan of Nagar (and perhaps others as well), had issue:
• Mirza (Ghuwati Mirza) - killed 1788 by Mir Salim Khan
• Mir Salim Khan (s/o of Rahim Khan of Nagar's daughter) (see below)
• Chillis Khan - foster son of Abdaal s/o Noor Ali (Abdaal was brother of Darwesh who was wazir of Khusrau Khan)

Khusrau Khan had a liking for Salim Khan, but Mirza (the eldest) did not like this and killed his frail bedridden father in bed after he had reigned for almost 35 years. Salim and Chilis Khan were exiled to Wakhan. Chillis Khan died on the way to Wakhan. Mirza was a fat and lazy ruler which is why he is called ‘Ghuwati Mirza’. In Wakhan Salim Khan met a famous athletic man named Moosingh and asked him to go to Hunza and check the situation. He returned with news that people were fed up of Mirza and were waiting for Salim’s return. Salim Khan spent 5 or 7 years in Wakhan. He then proceeded to Gilgit where he met his maternal cousin Gauri Tham Khan of Gilgit (both were sons of two different daughters of Mir Rahim Khan I of Nagar) and asked Gauri Tham to provide him reinforcements against Mirza which he did and he defeated Mirza and became the next Mir of Hunza as Mir Shah Salim Khan II after killing Mirza in 1788.

1788-1823 Mir Salim Khan II repulsed a Nagari invasion by Azur Khan of Nagar. It was also during his reign that Babar Khan of Nagar invaded but his ministers made a plan whereby they used Naseeb Khatoon to convince her father to go back, which he did. He killed his own son Jamal Khan after he was seen as threat. Salim also converted from Twelver Shia to Ismaili. He died in 1823 leaving four sons: Shah Sultan, Abdullah Khan, Ghazanfar Khan and Amin Khan. Amin Khan tried to coup against Ghazanfar (the most popular son) and failed and was arrested. During house arrest he tried to kill Ghazanfar but the wife of Ghazanfar’s wazir caught him and so Ghazanfar reordered a poisoned drink to be given to Amin Khan which killed him and made his death look natural. His marriages and children:

• Mir Salim Khan II married Naseeb Khatun d/o Babar Khan of Nagar (1), N. d/o Mir Nadir Khan of Darwaz or Shignan (2), Khushhal Begum daughter of Qalam Ishqaqa of Sariqol in Chinese Turkestan (3), had issue:

1. Mir Ghazanfar Khan I of Hunza (s/o Naseeb Khatun) (see below)
1. Son who died in infancy during the reign of Mir Salim Khan II (s/o unidentified mother)
2. Jamal Khan (s/o Naseeb Khatun) - married a daughter of Mir Muhammad Amin of Wakhan, had issue:
1. Bakhtiyar Khan
1. Khudayar - Qudratullah Beg mentions he had 3 sons: Bakhtiar Khan, Akram Khan and Faizullah Khan. According to Major Yousaf Khan (R) his children are as follows:
1. Bakhtiar Khan
1. Gauri Tham
2. Hari Tham
3. Khudayar
4. Ibrahim
2. Akram Khan
1. Aliyar Khan
2. Son
3. Son
3. Wazzda Khan
1. Yadgar Khan
4. Juma Bai
1. Murad Khan
2. Son
1. Mubarak
2. Mastan
2. Mastana
1. Amir Khan
1. Haider Beg
2. Khusrau Khan
1. Mubarak
2. Mastan
3. Sarfaraz
4. Zar
5. M. Sajad
3. Badshah Begum (d/o Mir Nadir Khan's daughter)
4. Parri (most likely d/o Mir Nadir Khan's daughter)
5. Mehr Nigaar (most likely d/o Mir Nadir Khan's daughter)
6. Abdullah Khan (s/o  Khushhal Begum) - married Bibi Mutreba d/o Mehtar Suleiman Shah of Yasin (1st,Katoor dynasty), Bibi Daulat w/o Muhammad Nazar Baig of Fasso (kidnapped, 2nd), Pak Daman (sister of Bibi Daulat, 3rd). Killed by Ghazan Khan I in 1853-53, had issue:
1. Ali Parast (s/o Bibi Daulat)
1. M. Aadab
1. Bati
1. Ashraf
1. Ejaz
2. Ebhah
2. Siyub
1. Ghulam Din
3. Shangul
1. Siyub
2. Tareef
3. Aadab
4. Iqbal
2. Abdul Bari (s/o Bibi Daulat) - had no issue
3. Ali Fatah (s/o Pak Daman)
1. Gharib Muhammad 
1. Abdul Aman
1. Salman
1. Farhan
2. Rehan
3. Qurban
4. Adnan
2. M. Khan
1. Rehan
2. Najeebullah
3. Safdar
1. Karim
2. Abdullah
2. Ali Fatah
1. Sadr-Ud-Din
2. Sultan Ali
1. Salman Ali
1. Mustansar
2. Karim
1. Zeeshan
2. Ejlal
3. Moeen
3. Yahya
1. Mudasir
2. Raqib
4. Ali
5. Rashid
4. Abdullah Baig (s/o Pak Daman)
1. Sikandar
1. Bakhtawar
1. Muhammad Ullah
2. Abdullah
3. Ghulam Rasool
2. Tawakal Shah
3. Alif Atta
4. Ghulam Sarwar
2. Aziz Ullah Beg
7. Shah Sultan - married a Burusho woman from a commoner family, had issue:
1. Yousaf Shah
1. Dost Muhammad
1. Ibrahim
1. Muhammad Haji
1. Irfan Karim 
2. Nouman Karim
3. Adnan Karim
4. Qudratullah Beg mentions a son named Farman while Mayor Yousaf Khan (R) mentions only 3 sons. 
2. Muhammad Shah
1. Jehandar Shah
2. Imtiaz Shah
3. Nazim Shah
4. Imran Shah
2. Ali Khan
1. Tawwakal Shah
1. Shah Sultan
2. Tawakkal Shah 
3. Tausef Shah
2. Naunihal Shah (later Air Commodore)
1. Muhammad Dost Khan
8. Daughter - married Babar Khan of Nagar, had issue:
1. Habib Khan of Nagar
1. Ali Dad
9. Daughter - married Alif Khan (as mentioned by Qudratullah Beg both Habib Khan and Rahim Khan III were sons of a sister of Ghazanfar Khan I)
1. Rahim Khan III of Nagar - Ghazanfar Khan I lured him to Hunza under the pretext of marrying him to one of his own daughters and then beheaded him and his party there. 

1823-1863 Mir Ghazanfar Khan I succeeded his father and ruled till he was killed by his own children Ghazan Khan I and Bibi Tahira who mixed small amounts of poison in his meals till they killed him. This was because Ghazanfar Khan had punished Ghazan Khan for killing Abdullah Khan. His wives and children - this list excludes the aforementioned infant son who during the reign of Mir Salim Khan II when Ghazanfar Khan was kept in house arrest by his paranoid father:

1. Bibi Jee d/o Mer Shah brother of Mehtar Suleiman Shah (Katoor dynasty) - had issue
1. Bakhtawar Shah
1. Saadat Bakht (daughter)
2. Zebunnisaa -married Mir Zafar Khan of Nagar
1. Ghuri Thum - married a daughter of Raja Bahadur Khan of Astore
2. Babar
3. Mir Sikandar Khan of Nagar (for his other children see Mirs of Nagar)
1. Shams un Nahar - married Mir Muhammad Jamal Khan of Hunza. Had issue (see below)
4. Deeng Malik
3. Bibi Aftab - married Mir Mahmood Shah of Badakhshan
2. Bibi Mutreba d/o Mehtar Suleiman Shah of Yasin (Katoor dynasty) - had issue:
1. Mir Ghazan Khan I (see below)
2. Bibi Roshan -married Raja Sikandar Shah of Gilgit (1st), Raja Zafar Zahid Khan of Nagar (2nd), had issue:
1. Muhammad Khan (s/o Raja Zafar Zahid Khan of Nagar)
1. Khusrau Khan
2. Abbas Khan
3. Badshah
4. Tahir Shah
3. Bibi Tahira -married Mir Shah of Badakhshan (1st), Sher Ghazab s/o Azmat Shah of Yasin (2nd)
4. Bibi Zareen - married Raja Muhammad Khan s/o Raja Karim Khan of Gilgit (1st), Mir Ghazi s/o Mehtar Gauhar Aman (2nd, 2 children), Raja Kamal Khan of Nomal (3rd)
1. Badshah
2. Sher Ghazi (aka. Mulolo) - married and had issue
3. Gul Chehra d/o Mehtar Suleiman Shah (Katoor dynasty) - he killed her first husband, Sardar and then detained her for a year till she agreed to marry him, had issue:
1. Naseem Khatoon - married Mir Fateh Ali Shah of Wakhan, had issue:
1. Mir Ali Mardan, governor of Ishkoman
2. Aasman Parri - married Mir Safdar Khan of Hunza (see below Genealogy of Mir Safdar Khan)
2. Sahib Jamal (Bulbul) - m. Raja Bahadur Khan of Astore, had issue:
1. Raja Shah Sultan (Maqpoon)
2. Ghulam Reza
3. Daughter - married Mir Mohammad Nazim Khan of Hunza
3. Parri Chhera - married Firdaus Shah brother of Raja Muhammad Khan of Gilgit
4. Bibi Misraah d/o Syed Muhammad Shah of Nomal, had issue:
1. Rehan Shah - exiled to Kashmir. He left descendants there:
1. Fida Muhammad
2. Nisar Ali
3. Neamat
4. Zulfiqar Ali
1. Ghazanfar Ali
1. Shoukat Jamal
2. Nasir Jamal
3. Shah Jamal
2. Muzaffar Ali
1. Maqsood Ali
5. Bibi Hamza d/o Mehtar Gauhar Aman (Katoor dynasty) - originally wife of Raja Zafar Khan of Nagar she was abducted in a raid and married off to Mir Ghazanfar, had issue:
1. Tawwakal Shah - killed, childless
6. Bibi Suleimani d/o Wazir Holo of Nagar - also captured in the raid on Nagar and married off to Mir Ghazanfar. Her 2nd marriage (after the death of Mir Ghazanfar) was to someone in Gilgit. Her issue with Mir Ghazanfar:
1. Bibi Gulshan - m. Ali Fatah s/o Abdullah Khan (brother of Mir Ghazanfar) (see above)
7. Rozah d/o Show of Budalas - no children but when Mir Ghazanfar I died, his son Mir Ghazan Khan I gave her in marriage to Farash Sangi Khan and they had 4 sons: Trangfah Kalba Ali , Muhammad Raffi, Gul Bahar and Sanaa Khan
8. Sud Burg - no children but when Mir Ghazanfar I died, his son Ghazan Khan I gave her in marriage to Mirza Hasan s/o Farhat Beg and they had a son: Malool
9. Kursuni from Chaprot, had issue:
1. Shaboak - mentally retarded. Lived till the initial years of Mir Muhamamd Nazim Khan’s rule and worked as gardener in Altit Fort. Died childless
10. Mehar Mah (Mirmo) d/o Muhammad Sakhi of Fasso - After Mir Ghazanfar died she married wazir Asadullah Beg but had no children because both were old. Her issue with Mir Ghazanfar:
1. Bibi Gulshah - Khwaja Qasim of Wuchah in Sariqol (Chinese Turkestan)
1. Haji Darwesh
11. Lady from Shignan, had issue:
1. Naunihal Shah - likely her son 
12. Unknown/Unidentified wives' children:
1. Bibi Zahidah (aka. Zaidah) - married Abul Hassan Beg s/o Babosh Beg of Sariqol (Chinese Turkestan)
2. Bibi Jamal - married Tajammul Beg s/o Gauhar Ishqaqah of Sariqol (Chinese Turkestan) (1st), Alif Beg of Sariqol (2nd, after he killed her husband)
3. Bibi Hayat - married Aishaan lsmatullah of Badakhshan, had issue:
1. Aisham Ghulam Qadir
4. Bibi Nabat -married someone in Badakhshan
13. Illegitimate children:
1. Son (s/o Wakhani mistress) - Ghazanfar kept a Wakhani woman as mistress. When she got pregnant, he married her off to a trusted man and when his illegitimate son grew up, he gave him two pieces of agricultural land at Ali Abad as estate. The name of this son is lost to history.

It is said he had more daughters who married visiting Syeds and Akhunds (religious clerics) from Skardu, but this is hard to ascertain.

1863-1886 Mir Ghazan Khan I succeeded his father and ruled till he was killed by his ownson Safdar Khan and nobleman Dara Beg. Safdar Khan became the next Mir of Hunza. Mir Ghazan Khan I's wives and children are as follows:

1. Murad Begum d/o Azur Khan s/o Babar Khan of Nagar - no issue
2. Noor Jehan sister of Zafar Khan of Nagar. Killed upon orders of Mir Ghazanfar Khan I after the murder of his brother Abdullah Khan by Ghazan Khan, had issue:
1. Mir Safdar Khan of Hunza (see below)
2. Bibi Mutreba (Zeeyo) -married Anwar Beg (relative of Alif Beg of Sariqol) - no issue
3. Bibi Zarr Afza - m. Muhammad Khan s/o Raja Zafar Khan of Nagar , had issue:
1. Khusrau Khan
2. Abbas Khan
3. Badshah
4. Tahir Shah
4. Jehan Ara Begum - married Azur Khan s/o Raja Zafar Khan of Nagar, had issue:
1. Ayub Khan
2. Alif Khan
3. Mow Begum d/o Mir Haya (Meerayo) of Ganish - a commoner, had issue:
1. Muhammad Nafees Khan
1. Khisro Khan
1. Abdullah Khan
2. Sherullah Khan
3. Safdar Khan
2. Shahadat Khan
1. Majeedullah
1. Tariq
2. Iqbal
3. Zafar
2. Aminullah
1. Noor Ul Amin
2. Nazim
3. Karim
4. Raheem 
3. Ghazi
1. Shahadat
2. Ghazi Karim
3. Naeem
4. Afsar
1. Waseem
2. Jasim
5. Aslam
1. Faris
3. Salim Khan
4. Bibi Qurbani d/o Loaq - a fatherless and brotherless commoner lady, she became maidservant of Ghazan Khan and they later married, had issue:
1. Mir Muhammad Nazeem Khan of Hunza (see below)
5. Bibi Fahmeedah d/o Bubosh Beg of Tung in Sariqool, had issue:
1. Salim Khan (Bappo) - married a daughter of Mehtar Aman ul Mulk of Chitral. Killed by his brother Safdar Khan
2. Bibi Ashrafi - married Karim Beg, the last Beg of Sariqol
6. Shaista/Sharista d/o wazir Abdullah Beg - she was already married to Nazar Shah s/o Taighoon s/o Muhammad but Mir Ghazna kidnapped and married her. Safdar Khan forced her to commit suicide and when it didn’t work, he hanged her. Had issue:
1. Sakhawat Shah (Mikki) - killed by Safdar Khan
2. Jehandar Shah - killed by Safdar Khan
7. Mehtar Afroze d/o Muhammad Sakhi of Fasso - originally wife of Arbab Khairullah s/o Muhammad Ali of Gulmit till the Mir kidnapped and married her. Had issue:
1. Bono - m. Syed Shah Abdul Hassan s/o Syed Ghulam Ali Shah of Hassan Abad Chitra. Had issue:
1. Hazrat Jan
2. Mir Haa Muki
3. Syed Nadir Shah
4. Syed Afsar Jan
5. Bibi Uross - married Mehtarjao Khadev Ul Mulk of Chitral (Katoor dynasty)
2. Mahi Cherah (Moi) - m. Tordochi s/o Syed Shah Abdul Hameed of Chitral.

1886-1891 Mir Safdar Khan succeeded his father. Around 1890-91, he received a message from Agha Khan III instructing him not to obstruct British passage through his territory but to instead provide them support whenever needed. The Mir and his men consulted and wrote back to Agha Khan II requesting him not to write such messages again. This led to the 1891 Hunza Nagar campaign where the British deposed the rulers of Hunza and Nagar. Mir Safdar Khan fled to Chinese Turkestan and the British installed his brother Muhammad Nazim (Nazeem) Khan as the next Mir of Hunza. In the meantime, the exiles from Hunza and Nagar had to come back eventually and, on the way, back the Chinese authorities confiscated their weapons, so they had to come back unarmed. In Nagar the British reinstated Raja Zafar Khan and his son Sikandar Khan assisted him as he was an old and frail man while his other son Azur (Uzar) Khan had fled to Chinese Turkestan, but the Chinese returned him to the British who then sent him to Srinagar where he left descendants. Wives and children of Mir Safdar Khan are as follows:

1. Sultan Nisab - widow of Bakhtawar Shah and sister of Zafar Khan of Nagar. Divorced.
2. Aasman Parri d/o Mir Fateh Ali Shah of Wakhan and Naseem Khatoon (sister of Ghazan Khan I), had issue:
1. Muzaffar Ali Khan (Kuchak)
1. Hari Tham (Hatum Khan) - living in Yarqand in 1962
2. Bibi Mehtar Nigaar (Bullo Tush) -married Syed Gadda Mohammad of Yarqand, had issue:
1. Abdul Karim
3. Bibi Ghulmittee - m. Nausherwan s/o Azur Khan of Nagar
4. Daughter - m. Karim Beg s/o Abul Hasan Beg of Sariqol, had issue:
1. Tash Timur Beg
3. Wife of Humayun Beg (kidnapped), had issue:
1. Durre Numa - m. Syed Saddruddin s/o Khan Khawaja of "Wachah" (Wacha Township in Tashkurgan, Chinese Turkestan), had issue:
1. Syed Sultanat Shah Muki - alive in Sariqol in 1962
4. Durri Numa of Yor (kidnapped)- originally wife of Arab Shah s/o Khurram Shah of Ghulkin, had issue:
1. Bibi Hayat - m. Naib Khan s/o Jaafar Ali Khan of Gilgit
1. Shah Suleiman - alive in Gilgit in 1962. It's worth mentioning that Raja Shah Rais Khan from the Rajas of Gilgit family says Raja Jaafar Ali Khan had no children. Perhaps this is a mistake by Shah Rais. 

Mir Safdar Khan is notorious for passing a law that allowed a man to kidnap another man's wife if he liked her. He used that to obtain two of his wives and his brother did similar actions and so did many other men.  He lived his last days in Chinese Turkestan while his brother was installed by the British as the next Mir of Hunza. 

1892-1938 Mir Muhammad Nazeem Khan succeeded his brother. He ruled till 1938 and is known for leaving behind his own memoirs. His marriages and children are as follows:

• Mir Muhammad Nazeem Khan married Anjeer d/o Taighoon - the kidnapped wife Kalabe Ali s/o Sangi Khan and had issue (though I'm not sure if all were from same wife or not):

1. Mir Ghazan Khan II of Hunza (see below)
2. Ghani Khan - had issue:
1. Sardar Ayub Khan
1. Ghani
1. M. Ayub
2. M. Akhtar
2. Bahram
3. Nonihal
1. Adnan
2. Imran
3. Kamran
4. Sakhi
1. M. Sakhi
2. Hyder Sakhi
2. M. Yaqub Khan
1. Chillis
1. Mansoor Khan
2. Anwar Khan
2. Riaz A. Khan
1. Iqbal A. Khan
3. Ghazi
1. Karim Khan
2. Rahim Khan
3. Wasim Khan
4. Salah Ud Din
1. Sultan Khan
2. E
3. Amin Khan - no issue
4. Sahib Khan - settled in UK, had issue:
1. Adam Khan
2. Iskandar Khan
5. Ghazi Johar - had issue:
1. Karim Johar
1. Ghazi Johar
2. Rahim Johar
6. Gp. Capt. Shah Khan - played a role in Gilgit Rebellion (1947), had issue:
1. Colonel Sher Khan
1. Ali Khan
2. Shamyl Khan
2. Asif Khan
1. Asim Khan
2. Qasim Khan
3. Sheim Khan
3. Major Yousaf Khan (R) - he compiled the dynasty's family tree in 2004, had issue:
1. Changez Khan
2. Shahmir Khan
7. Shahbaz Khan -married a daughter of Abdul Hasan Beg of Sariqol (possibly, see genealogical table of the Begs of Sariqol below. It is from the works of Qudratullah Beg), had issue:
1. Sultan Khan
2. Bahadur Khan
1. Hussayn 
2. Shabaz
1. Sultan
8. Daughter - married a son of Mir Sikandar Khan of Nagar

1938-1945 Mir Ghazan Khan II succeeded his father and ruled till death. His issue is as follows:

• Mir Ghazan Khan II

1. Ayash Khan (d.1978) - no issue
2. Jamshed Khan
1. Nazim Khan
1. Jamshed Khan
3. Mir Jamal Khan of Hunza (see below)
4. Daughter - married Babar Khan - another son of Mir Sikandar of Nagar

1945-1976 Mir Jamal Khan succeeded his father and ruled till death. He acceded his state to Pakistan. In 1974, Pakistan's Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto abolished Hunza State and from then onwards his role became ceremonial. His issue is as follows:

• Mir Jamal Khan of Hunza - married Shams un Nehar d/o Sikandar Khan of Nagar and had issue, 9 children:

1. Ghazanfar Ali Khan - see below 
2. Amin Khan 
1. Jamal Khan 
3. Abbas Khan 
1. Haider Khan 
2. Ayaz Khan 
3. Ghazan Khan 
4. Dur e Shawar -m. Son of her mother’s older brother 
5. Nilufar Nur Begum Mehr Jamal - m. Pir Karam Ali Shah 
6. Azra - m. Colonel Sher Khan s/o Shah Khan (Gilgit Rebellion hero) (see above in Genealogy of Mir Muhammad Nazeem Khan)
7. Daughter

1976-Present Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan succeeded his father upon death as Mir Ghazanfar Khan II. He has blue eyes. He is married to Rani Atiqa and has issue:

1. Shah Salim Khan - his mother filed a complaint against him for disobedience and hooliganism over a property dispute in June 2018. In October of the same year, his father declared him to be ‘disobedient' and disinherited him from his share of the family properties located in Islamabad and Hunza, Gilgit (Naltar)
2. Shehryar Khan
3. Salman Khan

For additional information, here is the Genealogical Table of the Begs of Sariqol:

Source: Qudratullah Beg's work (the author just missed a son of Abdul (Abul) Hasan Beg: Karim Beg who was the last Beg of Sariqol

References

1. Family Tree of Ayasho Dynasty compiled by Major Yousaf Khan (R) can be found online:

• IDENTITY NEGOTIATION AND SELF CONSTRUCTION: A CASE STUDY OF BERICHO COMMUNITY IN HUNZA by  Shehnaz Akhter on pp. 596. Available at: 60.-Vol.-5-No.-2-June-2023-Akhter-Identity-Negotiation-and-Self-Construction.pdf
• A Clearer picture of the chart is Available at: hunza-rulers-family-genealogy.jpg (1920×1164) 

1. History of. Ancient Era. Hunza State. (Part-I) (English Edition). By. Haji Qudratullah Beg. Son of Sahib Muhabbatullah Beg of Baltit, Hunza. English Translation By Lt Col (Rtd) Saadullah Beg, TI(M) psc, Son of Haji Qudratullah Beg Baltit – Hunza. Available at: History of 
2. Shah Rais Khan's History of Gilgit. Edited by Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani. With the Assistance of Late Mr. Abdul Hamid Khawar and Mr. Akbar Husain Akbar. Available at: 1987 Shah Rais Khans History of Gilgit ed by Dani s.pdf
3. Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan disinherits son Shah Salim Khan 
4. A Thrilling Voice from Inside the Palace: Alluring Recollections of the Last Rani of Hunza State – Fazal Amin Beg