Malik Saddu Khan or Sado Khan was a Pashtun figure, and the ancestor of the Sadduzai or Sadozai clan of the Abdali Pashtun tribe, to which belongs Ahmad Shah Abdali and some known families of Multan.[1][2][3][4][5][6] He succeeded his father as chief of the Habibzai section of the tribe, but due to his "bravery and ability" he was selected by the Abdalis (later known as Durrani), then living between Kandahar and Herat, to be their overall leader in 1598.[7]

Saddu Khan
Born11 October 1558
Multan
Died18 March 1627
Kandahar

Shadi Khan, the governor of the Emperor Akbar at Kandahar, was hostile to Saddu Khan, so he went over to the interests of Abbas I of Persia, who had lost Kandahar in 1594 and was intriguing for its recovery. This he effected in 1621, after Akbar’s death. Saddu Khan died in 1626 leaving five sons, from whom have descended several well-known clans of the Durrani tribe. The descendants of Saddu Khan are known as Sadduzai and one branch of the family, to which Ahmad Shah Durrani, Timur Shah, Zaman Shah, Hassan Javaid Khan and Shuja Shah Durrani belonged, reigned for many years in Kabul.[7]

He has been wrongly called 'Asadullah Khan' or 'Saadullah Khan' by some historians, but his real name was 'Saddu Khan'.[8]

    References

    1. ↑ Rashid, Haroon (2002). History of the Pathans. p. 136.
    2. ↑ Alexei, Voskressenski (19 May 2017). Is Non-western Democracy Possible?: A Russian Perspectiveedited. World Scientific. p. 303. ISBN 9789813147393.
    3. ↑ Pakistan Journal of History and Culture, Volumes 1-2. Pakistan: National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research. 1980. pp. 10, 19.
    4. ↑ Rashid, Haroon (2008). History of the Pathans: The Ghurghushti, Beitani and Matti tribes of Pathans.
    5. ↑ (India), Punjab (1902). Gazetteer of the Multan District.
    6. ↑ Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society. 1991. p. 111.
    7. 1 2 Sir Lepel Henry Griffin (1890). The Panjab chiefs: historical and biographical notices of the principal families in the Lahore and Rawalpindi divisions of the Panjab. pp. 74–. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
    8. ↑ Pakistan Journal of History and Culture. National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research. 1980.
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