Irfan Pathan
Pathan was born 27 October 1984 in Baroda, Gujarat, India and is of Pashtun (Pathan) ancestry, belonging to the Pathan community in Gujarat. He grew up with his elder brother Yusuf in a mosque in Vadodara, in an impoverished family. His father served as the muezzin. Although their parents wished them to become Islamic scholars, Pathan and his brother took an interest in cricket. Their games on the grounds off and inside the mosque often necessitated apologies from their father to Muslim worshippers who visited it. In the beginning his deliveries did not reach the other end of the cricket pitch, but rigorous six-hour training sessions in blazing heat and his family's sense of discipline saw him progress steadily.
Fawad Khan
Khan was born in Karachi on 29 November 1981 into a Pathan family, and speaks Punjabi as his first language. His father was born in Patiala, British India (now Punjab, India), and moved to Pakistan at a young age after the 1947 partition. His mother's family originated in Lucknow, British India (now Uttar Pradesh). When Khan was young, his father was in pharmaceutical sales, which required the family to live in Athens, Dubai, Riyadh and Manchester during the Gulf War. His family returned to Lahore when he was 13. Since childhood, Khan has been a fan of Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor. He has two sisters; his older sister, Aliya, is an architect and his younger sister, Sana, is a physician.