Ghori, (also Ghouri,Gouri) pathans originating from the Ghor region of present-day central Afghanistan came to Indian peninsula during the successive Muslim invasions of the 11th and 12th centuries AD, forming a part of the Afghan armies of Mahmud of Ghazni and Muhammed Ghori. Gradually over the centuries they settled in leading cities of subcontinent. With their martial background, like other pathans, they were in great demand as soldiers and mercenaries for different principalities. The city of Meerut, in Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, has been said to be the earliest settlement of the Pashtuns in North India, and the Ghauris have been settled there for at least eight hundred years. Other Pathan tribes in the district include the Kakar, Bangash, Tareen and Afridi. In Lahore, a historic c