Changez Saleem Jan is from Peshawar in Pakistan. He went to boarding school at Fazle Haq College in Mardan for his 'O' levels, then Dubai College for his 'A' levels, before studying economics at the London School of Economics. He has since spent over thirty years in banking across Pakistan and Singapore — with a brief detour lecturing economics at Aitchison College, Lahore.
History was never a side interest so much as an inheritance. He is the great-grandson of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan — "Badshah Khan," the Frontier Gandhi — and grandson of Mohammad Yahya Jan, who served as Minister of Education for the North West Frontier Province in 1946–47. His writing traces the region his family helped shape: the pre-Islamic Hindu Sahi kings, the warrior-poet Khushal Khan Khattak, and the oral folk romances still sung across the Pashtun countryside.
He now lives in Singapore, where the books get written on weekends and in the evenings.
