How to pop history of a tab from parent tabs component in ionic v2

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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I have three tabs as follows:

<ion-tabs>
     <ion-tab [root]="tab1Root" tabTitle="Home" tabIcon="home"></ion-tab>
     <ion-tab [root]="tab2Root" (ionSelect)="goToPreviousPage()" tabTitle="Back" tabIcon="arrow-back"></ion-tab>
     <ion-tab [root]="tab3Root" (ionSelect)="goToNextPage()" tabTitle="Next" tabIcon="arrow-forward"></ion-tab>
</ion-tabs>

So tab 1 loads the main content and the other two tabs are for navigating the app. Here is the tabs component:

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { NavController } from 'ionic-angular';

import { HomePage } from '../home/home';

@Component({
  templateUrl: 'tabs.html'
})
export class TabsPage {
  tab1Root: any = HomePage;
  tab2Root: any;
  tab3Root: any;
  navCtrl;

  constructor(navCtrl: NavController) {
  	this.navCtrl = navCtrl;

  }
  goToPreviousPage(){
   // Need logic to navigate back in history for Tab 1
  }

  goToNextPage(){
  	//Logic to navigate forward in Tab 1 content
  }
}

Is there a way to get the NavController for Tab1 so as to navigate it’s history, or is there a way to get component for tab 1, so as to call methods defined within it?