Talokar (village)

Talokar is the name of a village in the Haripur area of Hazara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly North-West Frontier Province) in Pakistan. and is situated at Latitude 33.9852778 degrees; and Longitude 72.9419444 degrees.

It was founded during the 12th or 13th century AD by the Talokar Jatt tribe, but later on in the 17th century became part of Dheri-Talokar, the Jagir (feudatory estate) of a prominent family of Zamindar Tarin Pashtuns, who were styled Khan of Dheri and Rais of Talokar.

The most well-known members of this family include the late Nawab-Bahadur Sardar Muhammad Habib Khan Tarin, Risaldar, CSI, Khan Sahib Abdul Majid Khan Tarin, OBE, Barrister, Khan Sahib H.E Abdus Salim Khan, former ambassador and Omer Salim Khan (Omer Tarin) the poet, mystic and scholar.

In World War I Talokar and its nearby (smaller) villages (now in Pakistan) made a big contribution of soldiers to the British Indian Army at that time, around 240 men; the village in all of British India with the highest number was Dulmial in Chakwal District of Punjab. Among those people from Talokar who died in action in the Great War, were Jemadar Abdul Latif Khan, IDSM of the 82nd Punjabis , Sowar Ghulam Jan Khan of the 11th Cavalry seconded to Central Indian Horse and Sepoy Sikandar Khan of the 82nd Punjabis, attached to the 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force). A total of 18 people from here are supposed to have died in the War.

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