Wali Kirani
Wali Kirani (Persian: خواجه ولی مودودی چشتی کرانی, fl c.1470) was a Muslim saint.
[citation needed] In 1220 CE, Genghis Khan invaded Afghanistan and the Muslim provinces with widespread destruction, looting, and death.
Rukn-ud-din had a dream in which his father warned him about the impending threat of a Tatari attack on the Herat and advised him to seek shelter elsewhere.
It is said that he was in the fort of Ghour when the Tartar forces surrounded and besieged the city but the Khwaja's prayers prevented their conquering and they left.
[citation needed] Qutub-ud-din Muhammad Ibn-e-Muhammad Moududi Chishti was the grandson of Khwaja Rukn-ud-din Hussain.
After the Tatari assault on Herat in 1221 A.C. many of the residents of Chisht and followers and relatives of Qutubuddin had permanently fled to other areas like Ghour, Ghazni, and Khurrassan (Ref Book: Mohammad Ibrahim Yukpasi by Dr. Tahir Taunsvi).
Their ruler declared safe passage to anyone who wanted to return to Chisht and agreed to follow Qutub-ud-din, and he issued an order that none should be harmed in the vicinity of where the Khwaja lived.
(A few families live in the Manzakai in the Pishin Tahsil, where they were given the proprietary right in a sixth share of their land by "Alizai Tarins".)
[citation needed] Wali Kirani was born during the time Naqr-ud-din lived in Quetta, although his date and year of birth are not known.
After that in 1973, the then-prime minister Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (Shaheed) provided the money for the tomb's renovation.
5 million for this project; his father, the late Mr. Nawab Ghous Bakhsh Rayesani,[3] was also a close ally of the Sadat of Kirani.
Another person who played an important role in the construction of this boundary wall was Mr. Mir Haji Ali Mudad Jatak,[4] the Minister for Food, Balochistan.
The Chishti Syeds of Kirani in the Quetta Tahsil claim Khwaja Naqr-ud-din (Shaal Pir Baba, or Shal Piran) as their ancestor.
Initially the predominant population was descendants of Wali Kirani Chishti, along with some Baluchistan and Pathans who worked on their lands.
Syed Lutuf ullah shah, who was seventh in descent from Khwaja Naqr-ud-din Shah, accompanied Mir Nasir Khan 1 of Kalat (1749–1817)[5] to Persia and was rewarded on his return with the revenue-free holdings of Chashma Shiekh Manda and Sadiq Karez in the Quetta tahsil and with two "angusht" of water at Dhader.
British forces under Colonel Robert Sandeman could not get news from Kandahar, because the route was so deadly that messengers refused to traverse it.
When consulted, the local sardars opined that the news could not be brought by any person other than the Syeds of Kirani because they had been wakeels (agents) of the Kabul courts since time immemorial.
Kirani also became home to a large number of Hazara people, who came to Pakistan as refugees during the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan (1979–1989).
In 1905 Asia's largest military academy staff college was established in Quetta and the Durranis were removed from the land.
Therefore, Ghullam Sarver Khan Durrani s/o Sardar Saeed Khan Durrani bought a very large piece of land from Syed Mohammad Ashraf Shah s/o Syed Mohammad Sadiq Shah adjacent to killi Kirani Quetta and formed a village there called killi Gulzar.
In 1908, a Kirani Moudodi Chishti Syed family sold land in western Quetta to Haji Nasir Ali, who built housing there.
