Qutb Shah

Hazrat Awn Muhammad Qutb Shah is the ancestor of the Awan tribe in Pakistan. His name was Sayyed Awn and Qutb Shah was his title as the leader of the Awan tribe. He was supposedly descended from Abbas ibn Ali, Hazrat Ali’s son and came to Northern Pakistan with Mahmud of Ghazni in the 10th century. Qutb Shah had 4 sons, two of which were assigned the task of border control and security in Peshawar. The other two were sent to areas such as modern day Attock in Northern Punjab to look after agriculture. This is why some Awans today are culturally Pashtuns and other Punjabi Provided by Wikipedia