Sardar Muhammad Aslam Khan (a Kamran Khel Saddozai) was the first Muslim Commandant of Khyber Rifles. Aslam Khan's father Usman Khan, who had served as Grand Wazir of Shah Shuja Durrani in 1840-1842, fled to Peshawar after the Anglo-Afghan war and joined the British.
Mahomed Uslum Khan (Ressaldar-Major, 5th Bengal Cavalry. From London Illustrated News, June 21, 1879.
The newspaper has following details about him: "Sketch portraits of four picturesque-looking natives of the Afghan hill country, types of different races among its very mixed population. One of these men, Mahomed Uslum Khan, is an officer in the rank of Messalder-Major of 5th Bengal lancers, and is acting as one of the Brigadier-General Gough's native orderly officers. But he is a Suddozye, of the late reigning princely family of Cabul; his father was Prime Minister or Wuzeer to Shah Shoojah, the Prince who was for a short time put on the Afghan throne by the intervention of the British Governament in 1839, and who was driven out in 1842. The late Shere Ali was brother in-law to this Mahmoed Uslum Khan, whose brother Afzul Khan, an officer of the 11th Bengal Lancers, was attached to the suite of the Prince of Wales in India, and accompanied his Royal Highness on his return home to England."
Lieut. Colonel Muhammad Aslam Khan and Robert Warburton, 1897.
Aslam Khan, 1906
Aslam Khan, 1900 (c). Photo by W.D.Holmes.
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