Re: your last name is Khan, really?
Also, what’s the deal with Khan with noon-ghunaan at the end ?
Re: your last name is Khan, really?
The Mongols actually never settled in modern day Karachi, Punjab or india. They did however settled in modern day KP. So it makes sense that pashtuns have Khan in their name. It doesn’t make any sense when people of none pashtun origin have Khan in their name especially from Karachi or india.
I have to agree with you. The name can travel from Mongolia to KP, but man it just does not make a sense for it to travel from KP to Karachi.
Fake khans of Karachi should be given naswaar publicly to humiliate them for such crime.
Re: your last name is Khan, really?
Trouble here is not surname but name 
We have unisexual name, jaskirat, lovepreet, jaspreet, gurkeerat only difference that can be made is through singh and kaur, which differentiate the two
So in punjab classroom if you ask a question, “who is gurkeerat here”
5 people may standup, 3 boys and 2 girls
Re: your last name is Khan, really?
There were many Pashtuns who brought the name Khan to India when they settled in different Indian cities. People like Josh Malihabadi (Afridi), Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi (Yousufzai), Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar, Dr. Zakir Hussain; all had Pashtun background. A lot of them opted for Pakistan alongside other Muslims when Pakistan came into being.
So it is not surprising to see the surname Khan among Urdu speaking people of Karachi.
Secondly, Khan Bahadur was also a title awarded by the British government. Thus many people with non-Pashtun background also have the Khan surname.
Re: your last name is Khan, really?
My name is not Khan, and I may be slightly a terrorist… towards bugs.
Re: your last name is Khan, really?
A lot of Pathans settled in Uttar Pradesh and were called Rohilla Pathans. Some of them moved to Karachi after the partition.
Rohilla - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Rohilla Pathans (Pashto: روهیله, Urdu: روہیلہ, Hindi: रोहिला), or Rohilla Afghans, are a community of Muslim Urdu-speaking Pashtuns historically found in Rohilkhand, a region in the state of Uttar Pradesh, North India. They form the largest Pashtun diaspora community in India, and have given their name to the Rohilkhand region.[SUP][1]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohilla#cite_note-1)[/SUP]
Some members of the Rohilla migrated to Pakistan and settled in Karachi after the partition of India, forming a part of the larger Muhajir community ofSindh. The Rohilla Pathans can be found all over Uttar Pradesh, but are more concentrated in Farrukhabad, Malihabad and the Rohilkhand regions ofBareilly, Shahjahanpur and Washim distric,Hiwra Rohila.
Originedit]The Rohilla are descended from a number of Pashtun tribes that settled in the Rohilkhand region in the 17th and 18th Centuries. They belonged mainly to kakar zaiandYousafzai tribe of Pashtuns, particularly of the Mandanh sub-section, but other Pashtuns also became part of the community. Rohilla’s Sardar like Daud Khan, Ali Muhammad Khan, and the legendary Hafiz Rahmat Khan Barech were from the renowned Afghan tribe the Barech, who were originally from the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. The term Rohilla is derived from the Pashtu Roh, meaning mountain, and literally means a mountain air, and was used by the Baluch and Jats of the Derajat region to refer to the Pashtun mountains tribes of Loralai, Zhob and Waziristan regions. In Uttar Pradesh, it was used for all Pashtuns, except for the Shia Bangash who settled in the Rohilkhand region, or men serving under Rohilla chiefs .
The Rohilla Daud Khan was awarded the Katehr region in the then northern India by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir (ruled 1658-1707) to suppress Rajput uprisings, which had afflicted this region. Originally, some 20,000 soldiers from various Pashtun tribes (Yusafzai, Ghori, Ghilzai, Barech, Marwat, Durrani, Tanoli, Tareen, Kakar, Afridi and Khattak) were hired by Mughals to provide soldiers to the Mughal armies and this was appreciated by Aurangzeb Alamgir, an additional force of 25,000 men was given respected positions in Mughal Army. However most of them settled in the Katehar region during Nadir Shah’s invasion of northern India in 1739 increasing their population up to 100,0000. Due to the large settlement of Rohilla Afghans, the Katehar region gained fame as Rohilkhand. Bareilly was made the capital of the Rohilkhand state. Other important cities were Moradabad, Rampur, Shahjahanpur, Badaun, and others.[SUP][3]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohilla#cite_note-3)[/SUP] According to 1901 census of India, the total Pathan population in Bareilly District was 40,779, out of a total population of 1,090,117.[SUP][4]](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohilla#cite_note-4)[/SUP] Their principal clans were the Yusafzais, Ghoris, Ghilzai, Barech, Marwat, Durrani, Tanoli, Tarin, Kakar, Khattak, Afridi and Baqarzai. This region is nowadays located in modern Uttar Pradesh and Maharastra state of India, and still home to a significant Rohilla population.
Rohillas were distinguished by their separate language and culture. They spoke Pashtourdu among each other but gradually lost their language over time and now converse in Hindustani. After thepartition of India in 1947, some Rohillas moved to Karachi in Pakistan and as a result, a significant number of Urdu-speaking Muhajir in Sindh are of Pashtun heritage.
Re: your last name is Khan, really?
people assume that those with last name “shah” are syeds but they dont own this name. Same is case with khan. But i have observed in punjab that any pashtun there is addressed as “khan sahab”, same is situation in india where any one with khan surname is automatically assumed as pathan. If the general conecpt in subcontinent is that khan and shah are pashtuns and syeds respectively then you dont need to get upset over such small things.
Re: your last name is Khan, really?
They also never settled in KP. Mongols settled in central Afghanistan, whose descendants are known as hazaras. It is common misconception that pashtuns have directly borrowed khan from mongolia and mongolians, they borrowed it from chaughtai turks (aka turko-mongols) e.g mughals as they were nobles and soldiers in their courts.
Re: your last name is Khan, really?
Happened to me a few times and always got asked so why can’t you speak in Pushtu…My great great great grandfather was from Sawat, moved to India with a few of his relatives, the rest of the generation was born in India including my grandfather who later moved to Pakistan so Pushtu slowly disappeared. We still have some family who speak Pushtu but people just don’t get it. I would also like to point out that all “Khans” are not Pukhtoons and all Pukhtoons don’t necessarily have a last name of Khan.