Wazir
Wazir often refers to:
- Vizier or wazir, a high-ranking political advisor or minister
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Wazir may also refer to:
Places
- Wazirabad, a City in Punjab, Pakistan
- Waziristan, a region in tribal belt of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Wazir Akbar Khan (Kabul), a neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan
- Wazir, Nangarhar, a village in Khogyani District, Afghanistan
Other uses
- Wazir (chess), a fairy chess piece that moves one space in an orthogonal direction
- Wazir (film), a 2016 Bollywood film starring Amitabh Bachchan and Farhan Akhtar
- Wazir (Pashtun tribe), a tribe in Waziristan, Pakistan
- Wazir (Khogyani clan), a tribe in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
- Wazir dialect, an east-central Pashto dialect spoken in parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan
People with the name
- Wazir Khan (Lahore), 17th-century court physician to Shah Jahan
- Wazir Khan (Sirhind) (died 1710), governor of Sirhind in the Mughal Empire
- Wazir Ali Khan (1780–1817), fourth nawab of Awadh, India
- Wazir Akbar Khan (1816–1845), an Afghan prince, general, and emir
- Wazir Arsala Khan, Foreign Minister of Afghanistan in 1869
- Wazir Ali (1903–1950), India Test cricketer
- Wazir Mohammad (born 1929), former Pakistani cricketer
- Haji Wazir (Bagram detainee), a detainee at Bagram who had a writ of habeas corpus filed on his behalf
- Ali Wazir, Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
- Arif Wazir, Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
- Mir Kalam (Mir Kalam Khan Wazir), Pakistani politician and leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement
- Khalil al-Wazir (1935–1988), Palestinian military leader and senior aide of Yasser Arafat
- Khalid Wazir (born 1936), former Pakistani cricketer
- Abdullah Wazir (born 1979), one of the Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay
- Wazir Mohammed Khan (died October 14, 1974), an Indian actor who acted in many movies including the first Indian talkie Alam Ara (1931)
- Safiya Wazir, American politician
- Usman Wazeer, Pakistani boxer
- Wazir Baig, Pakistani politician and former speaker of Gilgit Baltistan Assembly
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