Formen Qazilbash ser ut til å brukes først og fremst i Pakistan; det er bekreftet, f.eks. i Gupta, Hari Ram (editor) (1956) Panjab on the eve of first Sikh War: a documentary study of the political, social and economic conditions of the Panjab as depicted in the daily letters written chiefly from Lahore by British intelligencers during the period 30 December, 1848 to 31 October, 1844 Department of History, Panjab University, Hoshiarpur, India, s. 199, OCLC 460671525; and Khan, Tahawar Ali (1985) "Imtiaz Ali-Qazilbash" Biographical encyclopedia of Pakistan Biographical Research Institute, Lahore, Pakistan, s. 101, OCLC 14193680
