Babylon to Kot Sultan

Babylon to Kot Sultan Dr. Agha Inamullah Khan Chapter 12 Amir Sultan Muhammad Khan Babar’s Farewell to Afghanistan & forefathers’ link with the Royal Afghan house of Durranis Kings Amir Sultan Muhammad Khan Babar/Baburi was related to Durrani Kings through his grandfather Nur Muhammad Khan Baburi whose daughters were married to King Timur Shah Durrani & King Shah Zaman Durrani. In most of the books, reviewed by the author; the historians have mentioned Babar clan as Baburi. In a discussion on this variation with a Karachi based Pashtun journalist Murtaza Khan Babar, the author learnt that Pashtu has grammatical rules for forming possessives and related terms. In Pashtu, the name ‘Babur’ is written as Babur or Baburi and that the addition of the “i” sound at the end is a common grammatical feature in Pashtu, where it can function as a possessive suffix or be used to create objectives or related terms. So ‘Baburi’ can mean Babur or related to Babur, ...