Do Syed Pakhtuns belong to a tribe.

[Kushan Prince]

Al-Afghani always claimed to be of Afghan descent not Arab, i don't know why modern historians like to see him as a sayed, maybe some biased beliefs there?

Anyway's didn't so called "Arabs" mostly settle in Kabul and parts of the north like takkhar and Baghlan since they originally came down north from Bukhara to introduce Islam into Afghanistan?

I was obviously talking about the capital of Kabul, and Kunar is at least 95% Pashtun in population with the remaining rest being Pashai's with not Tajiks or Sayeds at all. And Al-Afghani looks Pashtun with only his first name being Sayed.

[Kushan Prince]

Can you give me some links on where you found out that Kakakhels are pure pashtuns. It's not that I doubt you I am just curious as you are the second person who has said that Kakakhels are pure Pashtuns which suggests that the history and origins of the Kakakhels is well known.

Well the Kakakhel website says something intersting about their origins; take a look;

The name "kakakhel" was not very popular till the 12th century, but slowly and steadily it got its popularity in 13th century. The reason behind this fact is that till 12th century, the number of "kakakhels" was in a less amount, so less that it cannot be included as a definition of a tribe. When their population grew more and the sources of media also developed then slowly and steadily they were considered as a "tribe"...A tribe of pustoon nation with "Arab blood".

http://www.kakakhel.com/history.html

It may not be the best source or even an answer to your question, but its the best we've got. So basically their leader's first name was Sayed and the tribe were devout muslims causing people to believe they must be of "Arab" origin which is totally ignorant. Btw this is not the first time a Pashtun tribe has been doubted of being Arab, the Bangash have also been rumoured to be of Arab descent and so have the Ormurs (despite being 100% of Iranian stock) and they deny this strongly. Like i said, Arab descent claims are totally farse in a region like Pashtunistan which the Arabs saw as a last resort to even settle.

[Brown Skinned Savage]

Lol your Arab monkey ass is doubting my pedigree. **** off.

Hey according to you you're Arab too ...checkmate

[Samandri]

Do Syed Pakhtuns belong to tribes?

Your question indicates that you have little or no idea about Pashtun society

[tilla_jogian]

Pretty sure most South Asian "Syed" are the descendants of upper class Hindu converts who still wanted to maintain some prestige in society after they left the caste system.

Also,

The Islamic invasion in the 7th century CE left an immense cultural impact on the region, with reports of Arabs settling in Afghanistan and mixing with the local population [49]. However the genetic signal of this expansion is not clearly evident: some Middle Eastern lineages such as E1b1b1-M35 are present in Afghanistan, but the most prevalent lineage among Arabs (J1-M267) was only found in one Afghan subject. In addition, the three Afghans that identified their ethnicity as Arab, had lineages autochthonous to India.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...l.pone.0034288

Any syed who claim upper class status here is beaten like rabid dog, most syed have kammi job of moulvi in villages in our ilaqa ghair at least. In our ilaqa hindu converts are supreme and we are proud of it.

[Asadkhattak]

Syed is a title for mr
anyone can write syed with his name
as far as the family of prophet Muhammad PBUH is concerned i know one (arab) tribe by the name of mashwanis that claim to be from the tribe of prophet Muhammad
dont know how authentic it is, but for the op
syed, khan, arbap, saib, mian, pir are not tribes but infact titles or family names
for example in my homeland we have certain mian families who are ethnic bangash of izatkhel clan
Hope this helps