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Urdu Urdu (; , , ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia. It is the Languages of Pakistan, national language and ''lingua franca'' of Pakistan. In India, it is an Eighth Schedule to the Constitution of Indi ...

Dari Dari (; endonym: ), Dari Persian (, , or , ), or Eastern Persian is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the Afghan government's official term for the Persian language;Lazard, G.Darī – The New Persian ...

: دوست محمد), Dost Mohammad, Dost Mahomet and other variants is a male Muslim given name meaning ''friend of

Muhammad Muhammad (8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. Muhammad in Islam, According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the tawhid, monotheistic teachings of A ...

''. Notable bearers of the name include: *

Dost Muhammad (Moghul Khan) Dost Muhammad Khan ( Chagatai and Persian: دوست محمد خان; ; 1445 – 1468/9) was Khan of Aqsu in Moghulistan from 1462 until his death. He was the son of Esen Buqa II. When Esen Buqa died in 1462, the Dughlat amirs were divided over ...

(1445–1468/9), Khan of Aqsu in Moghulistan *

Dost Mohammad of Bhopal Dost Mohammad Khan (c. 1657–1728) was the founder of Bhopal State in central India. He founded the modern city of Bhopal, the capital of the modern day Madhya Pradesh state. An Pashtun people, Afghan from Tirah, Dost Mohammad Khan joined th ...

(1657–1728), founder of the Bhopal State in central India *

Dost Mohammad Khan Dost Mohammad Khan Barakzai (Pashto/; 23 December 1792 – 8 June 1863), nicknamed the Amir-i Kabir, was the founder of the Barakzai dynasty and one of the prominent rulers of Afghanistan during the First Anglo-Afghan War. With the decline of ...

(1793–1863), Amir of Afghanistan, founder of the Barakzai dynasty * Dost Muhammad Khan Chowdhury, 18th-century zamindar of Natore, Bengal, India *

Haji Dost Muhammad Qandhari Khwaja Haji Dost Muhammad Qandhari (Pashto: ) was an Afghan Sufi master in the Naqshbandi tradition in the 19th century (1801–1868). Biography Dost Muhammad was born and received his early education in Kandahar in Afghanistan. While still a you ...

(1801–1868), Afghan Sufi master *

Dost Mahomet Dost Mahomet (1873 – 1909), sometimes spelt Dost Mohammad, was a Baloch "Afghan" cameleer in Australia. He used his animals to transport goods between the ports and remote inland mining and pastoral settlements of the Goldfields, Pilbara ...

(1873–1909), Australian cameleer * Dost Mohammad Khan Baloch (died 16 January 1930), ruler of Western Baluchistan until 1928 * Dost Muhammad Khan (judge) (born 1953), judge of the Supreme Court of Pakistan *

Dost Muhammad Khosa Dost Muhammad Khosa (; born 22 October 1973) is a Pakistani politician affiliated with Pakistan People's Party. He was appointed as the Caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab on 12 April 2008, serving until 8 June 2008. He joined the Pakistan Peo ...

(born 1973), Pakistani politician * Dost Muhammad Rahimoon (born 1976), Pakistani politician, former Member of the Provincial Assembly of Sindh *

Dost Muhammad Mazari Sardar Dost Muhammad Mazari (born 15 August 1970) is a Pakistani politician who served as the Deputy Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab, from August 2018 to July 2022 before being removed via a motion of no confidence. He had been a memb ...

, Pakistani politician, Deputy Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab *

Dost Muhammad Khan (senator) Dost Muhammad Khan () is a Pakistani politician who is currently serving as a member of the Senate of Pakistan from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since March 2021. He belongs to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is a po ...

, Pakistani politician, member of the Senate of Pakistan

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* Several "Afgan" cameleers in Australia, 1860s–1930s

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