Mirza Aquil Hussain Barlas

Nawab Mirza Aqil Hussain Barlas was a direct descendent of Nawab Qasim Jan,[1] and Nawab Jafishan Khan.

His father was Mirza Shakir Hussain Barlas,[1] a Barrister from Oxford University, England, and his mother was Bibi Mehmooda Begum, the sister of Sirdar IQbal

Shah.

He represented Muslim University school cricket team. Meerut Gymkhana team and Indian Home Ministry team.

He was for three years Chess champion of Delhi Clubs chess tournaments

He produced an English translation of the first part of the Bostan of Saadi of Shiraz, published in London by the Octagon Press[2] (the publishing firm of his cousin Idries Shah,[3] the son of Sirdar IQbal Ali Shah and grandson of Nawab Syed Amjad Ali Shah). Idries Shah recounts a story about his cousin in his book Kara Kush (in the chapter 'Mirza in a mulberry tree').

His only child is Adil Hussain Barlas.[1] He died of heart failure in the Govind Ballabh Pant hospital in New Delhi, and was buried in the family graveyard in Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia Dargah.

He used to coach his sister Nafisa's sons when they played cricket.He told Naved,amongst them,to emaluate the style of Australian fast bowler,Lindwall.Once Feroz was bowling fast with 'Bata' rubber ball to his brother Naved and Naved was getting scared.Mira Aquil directed Feroz to bowl 'bhimar" or that came directly on chest.