Abdul Majid Khan Tarin

On returning to India, Tarin became a junior magistrate in the Punjab service, then a 1st class magistrate, extra assistant commissioner and then deputy commissioner; he also served briefly as a judge in the Punjab Sessions Courts.^[11] On retiring from service in 1934, he became an early and active member of the NWFP (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan) chapter of the All India Muslim League and a close associate of Sir Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum, and was a member of the NWFP Legislative Assembly (1937–1939).^[12] Although keen to protect Muslim rights, he remained a firm proponent of a consolidated Muslim entity within a larger Indian confederation until his death at his ancestral village, Talokar, in June 1939.^[13]

Tarin was also a philanthropist. Apart from his support of the establishment of the Islamia College, Peshawar, and support of various Indian Muslim charities, he played a considerable role in the early development of his native Haripur area in Hazara, NWFP. He founded several charitable schools, set up a public tuberculosis ward at the Haripur Government Hospital, provided for a system of educational scholarships for local students, as well as supporting numerous needy people.^[14]

Khan Sahib had three sons and two daughters. His eldest son, Abdus Salim Khan, a Pakistani diplomat,^[15] was married to former Pakistani minister, Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan, daughter of the late Punjab Premier, Sardar Sir Sikandar Hayat Khan (1892–1942).^[16] His second son Abdul Hamid Khan was an agriculturist of NWFP,^[17] whilst his third son, Abdul Rashid Khan, was commissioned in the British Indian Army^[18] and later served in the Pakistan Army after the independence of Pakistan in 1947. The Pakistani poet and research scholar, Omer Tarin is a great-grandson of Abdul Majid Khan Tarin.^[19]