Nowshera, also Naushera (Punjabi and Urdu: نَوشہره), is a city and Tehsil (administrative subdivisions) in Khushab District, located in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.

Rose writes, "But in the best available account of the tribe, the Awans are indeed said to be of Arabian origin and descendants of Qutb Shah.

"[2] Sir Lepel H. Griffin writes in his book The Panjab Chiefs (1865 Edition) that: All branches of the tribe (Awans) are unanimous in stating that they originally came from neighbourhood of ghazni to India, and all trace their genealogy to Hasrat Ali the son-in-law of the Prophet.

Kutab Shah, who came from Ghazni with Sultan Mahmud, was the common ancestor of the Awans…….It was only in the Rawalpindi, Jhelam and Shahpur districts that they became of any political importance…….

In Shahpur District the Awans held the hilly country to the north west, Jalar, Naoshera (Naushera) and Sukesar, where the head of the tribe still resides.

The process of industrialisation has been rapidly destroying the age-old customs and traditions of this ancient tribe and patriarchal society.

[citation needed] Sir Michael O'Dwyer, Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab joined the Indian service as Magistrate, Civil Judge, Superintendent of the Jail, and Treasury Officer.

He wrote about the tribes of Salt Range: Of these perhaps the most interesting were the Awans of the Salt Range................It occurred to Wilson and me, who spent much time among them and every year had to send hundreds of them to prison for violent breaches of the peace, that it would be for their good and ours to open a career for the young" bloods" in the Army.

We induced the Commandant to come down to the great Horse Fair in 1888 or 1889, and persuaded the Awan graybeards to bring in some hundreds of their young men- preferably the wilder spirits.

In the Great War nearly every fit man of military age came forward from these Awan villages, and an inspiring sight was to see the batches of young recruits escorted for miles on their way by their mothers, wives, and sisters, singing songs of the brave deeds of their forefathers and urging the young men to emulate them.

Naushera has produced families of qadis, Muslim jurists who used to live in the Mahalla Qazian Wala.

He was grandson of Qazi Kalim Allah, the Muslim qadi and jurist of Naushera in the time of Mughal emperors.