The Tiwana family has dominated
politics in Khushab, mainly because they are scattered over most of
the plains of the district while other tribes are more concentrated
in the valleys and the mountains. In the Soon Valley politics
centred Pir Nowbahar Shah of Pail-Piran during his life time.Hos
other contemporaries were Malik Shahnawaz of Khabaki and Malik hayyat
of Jabba.
The leader of Tiwana party,
Malik Khuda Buksh Tiwana, was Chairman of Sargodha district before
Khushab became a district. He then served as the first Chairman of
Khushab. Later he became Provincial minister and was also elected as
MNA. His younger brothers Malik Ghulam Mohammad Tiwana, Malik Ehsan
Ullah Tiwana and Malik Saif Ullah Tiwana also are famous political
figures.
Malik Ghulam Mohammad Tiwana
is Zila Nazim of Khushab and has served Khushab as member, National
Assembly and member, Provincial Assembly defeating Shakir Bashir
Awan and Shuja Khan (candidate from PML-Q).
Malik Ghulam Rasool Sangha is
the Thesil Nazim of Thesil Khushan. He belongs to the Awan family
from Daiwal. He was elected Tehsil Nazim by defeating Haroon Bandial
and Malik Mukhtar.
Malik Ehsan Ullah Tiwana was
the first Zila Nazim of Khushab and is now the President of the
Pakistan Muslim League in there. Saif Tiwana is the serving MNA.
The Tiwana party is widely
known as the Awami group and have a very strong allegiance in the
whole district unlike other political groups, whose popularity is
confined to certain specific areas like Awans in Padhrar and the
Maliks in Soon valley.
Malik Karam Bakhsh Awan of
Padhrar was the famous person of the area. He founded Tanzeem-ul-Awan
for the betterment of Awans. He provided his own land for the
establishment of Government College Naushera.
Malik Naeem Khan was another
important personality and an influential politician. He worked very
hard for the development of Soon Valley.
Other famous people of the
Khushab district include the sitting federal minister Sumaira Malik,
Brigadier Muhammad Nazar Tiwana followed by his younger cousin
brother Brigadier Muhammad Azam Tiwana and Major Ahmed Khan Tiwana
(Shaheed - Kargil 1999), Tamgha-e-Basalat.
Malik Muhammad Waris Kalu is
also a very important figure of the area he belongs to the desert
area and very popular among the poor masses. He always love to do work
for the people in Thal Desert. Malik Saleh Muhammad Gunjial MPA.(Ex
Minister of Punjab).
One of the famous young
political personalty is Malik Tahir Raza Baghoor , he is emerging
leader of baghoor family in Tehsil Noor Poor Thal , this young person
inherted politics from his family , in recent local body election ,
this young person lost his tehsil nazim election on toss.
Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, (Urdu: احمد ندیم قاسمی) born Ahmed Shah Awan(Urdu:
احمد شاہ اعوان ) was a legendary Urdu and English language Pakistani
poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author. He
wrote 50 books including poetry, fiction, criticism, journalism and art.
He was a major figure in contemporary Urdu literature. His poetry stood
out among his contemporaries' work for its unflinching humanism, and
his Urdu afsana (novel) work is considered by some second only to Prem
Chand in its masterful depiction of rural culture. He was also editor
and publisher of literary magazine Funoon for almost half a century,
grooming generations of new writers. He wrote many English poems and
short stories. His poem The Feed is included in the syllabus of
intermediate classes in Pakistan. He received awards the Pride of
Performance in 1968 and Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 1980 for his literary work.
