Awan's family was landowning family and his father belonged to the Awan caste tribe of the Potohar Plateau.
A solid Awan tract intervenes between the Johdras and the Pathans and runs from the south to the north of the tehsil.
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Most of the Hazara region was home to Hindko speaking tribes such as the Awan, Gakhar, Sarara, Karral, Turk and Dhund, as well as Gujjars.
The Syed, Khattar, Awan, Shaikh, Gheba, Jat, Qanungoh Shaikhs, Paracha, Arains, Pashtun, Gakharss, Gujjars, Rajput, Mughal and Qureshi are the main tribes and clans of Attock district.
The town or village of Balakot is occupied mainly by Swati family, Pathan(Madakhail), Gujjar, Awan, Swati, Syed, Turk, Mughal and Hanki tribes.
Among them are Siddique-ul-Farooq, Raja Ashfaq Sarwar Malik Shakeel Awan (PML-N), Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed (AML), Ijaz Khan Jaazi (PTI) and Amir Fida Paracha (PPP).
The main tribes of the district are Rajput, Ghakars, Awan, Dhund Abbasi, Dhanyal, Kethwal, Bhatti, Chauhan, Janjua, Maliar, Mangral, Jasgam, Mughals, Pashtuns, Jats, Qureshi, Rawal, Satti, Sheikh, Kashmiris, Gujars and Sayyid.
In the Pothohari language "Dhoke" means a small chunk of people or houses, while Budhal is the title given to a specified group of "Awan" Tribe.
Two Elamite dynasties said to have exercised brief control over parts of Sumer in very early times include Awan and Hamazi; and likewise, several of the stronger Sumerian rulers, such as Eannatum of Lagash and Lugal-anne-mundu of Adab, are recorded as temporarily dominating Elam.
Gen. Malik belongs to the Awan tribe and he is from Khushab which is one of the prime recruiting areas for Pakistan army.
At a meeting of the Canadian Arab Federation on the day after the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal heard the complaint, Hall served on a panel along with Khurrum Awan, one of the student lawyers who helped file the complaint who testified at the BC Human Rights Tribunal against Maclean's, and Haroon Siddiqui, editor emeritus of the Toronto Star.
The majority of the population of the surrounding are is Arain, Gujjar, Jutt, Kamboh, Awan, Naich, Mirali, Sahu, Dhudhi, Bhatti, Khokhar and Sial.
There has been the classic system of "Punchayat" (informal legal courts) being administered by a Landlord Malik Mumtaz Hussain Awan.
They unanimously nominated Muhammad Siddique Dar as the successor of Silselah-e-Alia Tauheediyah after Abdus Sattar Awan.