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Alternative spelling: Khaibar Rifles
Alternative spelling: Khaibar Rifles, Khaiber Rifles


== Chronology ==
== Chronology ==

Revision as of 00:54, 27 December 2012

Alternative spelling: Khaibar Rifles, Khaiber Rifles

Chronology

  • 1878 raised as the Khyber Jezailchis by Capt Gilbert Gaisford[1]
  • 1881 command taken by Sardar Mohammad Aslam Khan (first Muslim commander)
  • 1887 renamed Khyber Rifles
  • 1919 disbanded
  • 1946 reconstituted from Afridi veterans
  • 1947 allocated to Pakistan

External Links

Historical books on-line

Footnote

  1. later as Lt-Col Gaisford he was political agent in Baluchistan where he was assassinated in 1898 aged 48 years Officers Died website