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    LeTS START IT FROM THE LARGEST PASHTUN TRIBE IN PASHTUNKHWA KHATAK,Discuss the origin and history

    Khattak




    A Khattak Elderly man, chieftain. (speen geeray)



    A Khattak Warrior with a classical old rifle.


    Khattak or Khatak (Pashto: خټک [xaˈʈak], Urdu: خٹک), is the name of a Afghan tribe. The tribe's territory is located in the Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa province of Pakistan. The tribe is settled along the western bank of the river Indus from as north upwards as Sammah; modern day Lund Khwar & Sher Garh near Malakand to South through the district of Karak, a stretch of territory more than 200 miles long. Their historic capital is Akora Khattak, a town 50 kilometres (31 miles) east of the provincial capital, Peshawar.

    Karlani Afghan Tribes Genealogy & Family Tree.



    Flag of the Afghan Tribe, The Khattak. Made from historical references related to Malik Shehbaz Khan, Khushal Khan Khattak and the Khattak Tribe in general. It shows the famous Eagle of Khushal Khan, the sword of the Khattak Attan Dance, and the book; Khattaks are known as the scholars of the Afghans.





    [edit] Origin

    According to Nimatullah's 1620 work History of The Afghans, Khattaks are amongst the oldest of the Afghan tribes.[1] Their history has been closely knit with that of the Yusufzai Tribe from their first settlement around the mountains of Ghor and Ghazni [1] to present day East-Central and North-Eastern Pukhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan.
    Herodotus, Book 3, 91.[2] (In this and the two succeeding passages the historian is giving a list of the Achaemenian satrapies and their peoples.)
    The Sattagudai and the Gandarioi and the Dadikai and the Aparutai, who were all reckoned together paid 170 talents.
    Herodotus, without assigning a name to the satrapy, tells us that Darius' yth Satrapy was inhabited by four tribes, the Sattagudai, the Gandarioi, the Dadikai, and the Aparutai.[3][4]
    The addition of the Aparutai/Aparidai correspondence helps to buttress the case for finding in Herodotus traces of names which carry through to the present day. Bellew has gone further and identified the Sattagudai with the famous Khatak tribe. "The Pathans 55O B.C.-A.D. 1957" printed St Martin's Press 1958 by MacMillan and Company Limited"[4]
    Historians consider them to be the Tribe of Gad,[5] (Gen 30:3-11, Gen 35:26; 46:16-18; Ex 1:4; I Chr 2:2, Isaiah 65:11),[5] the word meaning to separate out or to "stand out". The Modern day word Khattak the morphed form of the original however means a small hill that "stands out".[6] The Tribe of Gad is among theTen Lost Tribes that was taken by Assyrians and settled in the mountains of Ghor and Ghazni.(page 37 The History of the Afghans by Burnhard Dorn)[7]
    Gad (Hebrew; to stand out, also Luck and Soldier) > Gadak (of Gad) also Satta+Gaddayee or Sattagudai (Herodotus) > Khadak (Kha in the old dialect of Pukhto (not Pushto) for the G of Hebrew) > Khattak (a hill that stands out).
    This is also strongly echoed and verified in the words of Herodotus during the 5th century BC [2] by the fact that of the Nations he mentions were "the Sattagyddae", the Gaddae being the morphed form of the original Gad.
    Khattaks & Shetaks as the Sattagudai

    Sir Olaf Caroe, The Pathans 550BC 1957AD:[4]
    "Let us now refer to the third passage cited, in which Herodotus, without assigning a name to the satrapy, tells us that Darius' ythSatrapy was inhabited by four tribes, the Sattagudai, the Gandarioi, the Dadikai, and the Aparutai.
    Bellew has gone further and identified the Sattagudai with the famous Khatak tribe, and the Dadikai with an obscure branch of Kakars whom he calls Dadi."
    Khattaks and Shetaks ;origins

    Sir Olaf Caroe, The Pathans 550BC 1957AD:[4]
    "Neither Khataks nor ****aks appear by name until the period of publication of genealogies under the Mughals, and the time of Akbar's dealings with the Khataks for the protection of the highway to Peshawar. Babur indeed in his memoirs mentions the Karranis (Karlanris) whom he encountered in 1505 around Bannu along with the Niazis and Isakhel. It is probable that this reference of his is to Khataks or ****aks, or both, for both are Karlanri tribes, and the other Karlanris who live in that area, Wazirs and Bangash, Babur mentions by name when he comes to them."It is thus clear that Babur & other Mughals in their descriptions identify Khattaks & Shetaks together without any differentiation.
    [edit] The unique place of Khattaks/Shetaks in Afghan History

    Sir Olaf Caroe, The Pathans 550BC 1957AD:[4]
    "Taken together, the Khataks and the ****aks, who now have a common boundary close to Bannu, cover a stretch of territory as large as that held by any Afghan or Pathan tribe, whether Ghilzai, Yusufzai or Durrani. From the Khatak settlements around Lundkhwar, close to the Malakand Pass, to the ****ak villages in Upper Daur in the Tochi, the distance is over 200 miles. The wide extent of their present territory, their large population, and the association of both groups of tribes at one time or another with the rich oases of Bannu and the Tochi, suggest sufficiently their importance in this family of peoples."[edit] Theory of Khattak Descent from the Greeks

    After the creation of Pakistan, some Pakistani scholars, suggested a Greek descent for the Khattaks. However from the Histories of Herodotus, Herodotus, Book 3, 91.,[2] it is clear that a tribe by the name of SattaGydae (or Sattagudai) were already settled in the area around current day Ghor in Afghanistan and paid as tribute coinage and materials to the Greeks when they subjugated these areas:
    "The Sattagudai and the Gandarioi and the Dadikai and the Aparutai, who were all reckoned together paid 170 talents."
    Later Bellew, Caroe and other historians both Afghan and Western through their works identified the Sattagudai with the famous Khatak & ****ak tribes. "The Pathans 55O B.C.-A.D. 1957" printed St Martin's Press 1958 by MacMillan and Company Limited"[4]
    Though all Afghan DNA[8] including Khattak DNA has minor contributions from haplogroups more common to the Greeks,[9] these are minor enough to rule out a direct lineage. Together with works from Herodotus and more recent historians, the theory of Khattak descent from the Greeks is unfounded.[10][11]
    [edit] Afridis & Khattak blood throughout the ages

    Sir Olaf Caroe, The Pathans 550BC 1957AD:[4]
    "The Afridis and Khataks lumped together as Karlanris, can be held to reflect a knowledge that they represented a more aboriginal stock, which only later absorbed the characteristics of the invaders. In other words, it is not surprising that in looking for a prototype in the oldest recorded history bearing on this region we hit on the ancestor of the Pakhtun."Though Afghan DNA has minor contributions from Greeks, Turks, Arabs & Persians, this represents the inter marriages (albeit in minor proportions) between local Afghan Tribes and foreign invaders throughout the ages. This is the basis for some of the Theories though in error of Afghan descent from these peoples.
    [edit] Afghan molding and amalgamation through the ages

    Sir Olaf Caroe, The Pathans 550BC 1957AD:[4]
    "This is not to assert that the ethnic or linguistic stock can be traced through to tribes of similar names today. The case would be rather that these were sub-stratum agglomerations of people who, through contact with later-comers, modified their language and were assimilated to later cultures, but retained in the more inaccessible places sufficient of their older inspirations to boast their original names. The theory does at least give a starting-point to Pathan history & the stock belief in the Bani Israel."
    Migration of the Khattak & Shetak Tribe through the ages.


    [edit] Eastern Migration from Afghanistan

    Earliest records show their migration from Ghazni, Ghor and Loghar and Qandahar to Zhob. Afterwards to Bannu, then northwards towards modern day Kohat, Karak, Nowshera, attock, Mianwali and finally Mardan and Malakand. .[12] A warrior poet by the name of Khushal Khan Khattak (1613–1690) was once the chief of this tribe, and his contributions to Pushto literature are considered as classic texts .[13] His life and times are one of the most chronicled and discussed subjects in Pashtun history, as he was active on the political, social and intellectual fora of his times and contributed significantly at each front. He was a most voluminous writer, and composed no less than three hundred and sixty literary works, both in the Pushto and Persian languages .[14] His poetry revolves around concepts of Honour, Justice, Bravery and Nationalism and his works have been translated into numerous languages, English and Urdu being the primary ones. .[15] The Khattaks have achieved positions of influence throughout history .[16]

    Khushal Khan Khattak (1613 - 1690)


    [edit] History

    The earliest accounts of the Khattak tribe appear in the writings of Herodotus during the Fifth Century BC [2] where he mentions the four ancient nations comprising the Pactyans he encountered in Pactya as the Gandarn, the Aparytae, the Sattagyddae, and the Dadicae. The first having long since been identified with the ancient inhabitants of that part of the Peshawar valley now known as the Yusufzai and Mohmand country. The second and third are identified with the Afridi, and the Khattak of the present day. The last, or Dadicae, are most probably represented by the nearly extinct tribe of the Dadi, who dwell amongst the Kakar, on the southern border of the ancient Sattagyddae country. It is curious to find these very nations now, after a lapse of more than two thousand years, retaining the identical names and the same positions as those assigned to them by the ancient Greek author.
    The first settlement of the Khattaks was at Shawal, a valley in the Waziri country lying to the west of Bannu, near the Pir Ghal peak. They migrated thence eastwards to the British district of Bannu and settled with the Afghan tribes of Honai and Mangal, who then held it. These tribes were driven out by the ****aks, a clan allied to the Khattaks, also from Shawal, probably during the 14th century. [17] [18] The ****aks gradually drove back the weak Khattak communities previously settled along the left bank of the Kuram. The Khattaks thus pressed from behind gradually spread over the southern portion of the Kohat district. They first took Possession of the Chauntra Bahadar Khel and Teri valleys, and jointly with the Bangashes drove out the tribes previously occupying the north-eastern part of the district, and obtained the Gumbat, Pattiala and Zira tappas as their share .[12]

    The Khattak super Tribe and sub tribes. Khattak Family Tree.


    [edit] Khattak super tribe & sub tribes

    [edit] Khattak Super Tribe

    [edit] Bolak

    [edit] Akori Khattak

    Areas: Peshawar, Nowshera. City Centers: Peshawar, Akbar Pura, Akora Khattak.
    [edit] Yusufzai Khattak

    Areas: Mardan, Sawabi, Malakand, Charsadda. City Centers: Lund Khwar, Jamal Garhi, Sher Garh, Katlang, Hatian, Sakha Kot.
    [edit] Taraki

    [edit] Tari

    [edit] Bangi Khel/ Mangi Khel

    Areas: Shakar Darra
    [edit] Barak

    Areas: Karak
    [edit] Narri

    [edit] Seni

    Areas: Kohat
    [edit] Sagri

    Areas: Shakardarra, Narra Kanjoor, Jand, Attock.

    The distribution of the Khattak Tribe in modern day Pakistan. Also shows major Khattak centers, cities, Tribal capitals and Districts where the Khattak Tribe is populated. All percentages shown are related to census demographics of population surveys of Pakistan.


    [edit] Demographics

    The Khattak sub tribes include the Seni Khattak(Kohat), Barak Khattak(Karak), Akora Khel Khattak(From Lundkhur to Nizampur), Mungi Khel Khattak(Shakar Dara), Mattu Khel Khattak (Shakar Darra), and the Saghri Khattak (Narra Kanjoor, Jand - Attock). They also live in Sndh, Balochistan, and Punjab provinces of Pakistan. In past there was democratic process to make a new leader of the tribe by vote of leaders of clans. each tribe leader was given extra land as Jagir (padgai or pagrrai) to cover the expenses of his Public Kitchen (Langer). There are 3 Chieftain of Khattak's , Khan of Terri, Akora and Makhad . it seems till the time of Khushal Khan, khattak's were having one Chieftain at Akora. Bangi khel's lives at Narrah(Taraf Jamal Khel of Narrah) Bani Afghan,Tabbi sari at Mianwali and some village at Shakar Dara District Kohat. Bangi khel are much in count so mostly considered separate tribe of Khattak's but actuall Bangi khel and Akora's are part of Saghri's. Saghri's living at Shakardara are called as "Topi Sughri" whereas at attock are called "nar-rray sughri" in local dilect.
    Saghri's in the past were war like people and don't have written history but wisely they recorded their existence through naming ther new settlements with old names. Saghri's seems to have existence before first migration from Syria. it is pertinent to note that Syria and Iran still have a good number of Saghri's . After Qandhar they moved to Zhob area where they again left there signs as Saghri ghar and Saghri lake.
    [edit] Lund Khwar

    Lund Khwar[19] was known in the old days as Sammah.[4] The Khattaks here are the direct descendants of Khushal Khan Khattak through his son Sadar Khan. In his campaign of Swat, Khushal Khan Khattak had camped here and those of the Khattaks that live here today are his children through his Yousafzai wife. She was the daughter of the Yusufzai chief of the time in Mardan.[4]



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  • #2
    The village of ,,tor dhirai,mankai, etc in the distt of swabi are also khataks.



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    • #3
      the gadoons/jadoons



      The Jadoons (also Gadoon)(Pashto: جدون)are one of the largest Pashtun tribes in Pakistan. They are an acknowledged pashtun tribe of afghan origin.They originate from Jallalbad and are now located in Gadoon area in Swabi on the southern slopes of Mahaban Mountains, and partly in Abbottabad District and Haripur District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Their language is Pashto in Swabi and Hindko in Haripur and Abbottabad.They are subdivided mainly into 3 sub-tribes Salar, Mansoor
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      [hide][edit] Origins

      The Jadoons are descended from Ashraf also known as jadoon (Gadoon) of the Panni clan of the Gharghasht Afghan. Panni, Kakar, Naghar and Dawi were four sons of Daney who was the son of Ismail, also known as Ghurghusht,who was the son of Qais Abdur Rashid. The people of this tribe call themselves jadoons, but Eastern Afghans who change the letter S'h into K'h and "j" into "G" style them Gadoons as the letter J and G are interchangeable in the Pushto language, just as jillani and Gillani are synonym[2] They created three tribes: Parni, Kakar, and Naghar (Dawi mixed with the Kakar)[2]
      The Jadoons appear to have been located near the southern slopes of the Spin Ghar range, west of Iri-ab, about the time the Khas'his, these give rise to Khas'his Khel or Khakhay Khel as it is having been obliged to vacate their old seats through the hostility of the Ghwaris, written in other accounts as Ghwariah Khel, and is the clan from which the Khalils, Mohmands, Daudzais and Chamkannis descend from. Both Khas'his and Ghwaris were brothers,moved northwards towards Kabul and, while the Khas'his were dwelling within the limits of the Kabul province, on the northern side of the range of Spin Ghar, the Mohammadzais joined the Yusufzi and Mandar tribes of that sept, and together with the Jadoons continued with them as an associated and allied tribe during their subsequent vicissitudes.[3]
      When these tribes made a distribution of the conquered territories after the defeat of the Dilazaks near Katlang, and they had been driven out of the Sama'h, as will be presently mentioned, the Jadoons took the lands in the eastern part of the Sama'h, near the Abae-Sin, and there they still dwell. During the course of some four centuries, since the period in question, considerable changes have taken place in these parts, but not so many as might have been expected with reference to the Afghan tribes of this locality, but the Jadoons have, since that period, pushed across the Abae-Sin, and hold lands on the east, in Kohistan of Dhamtore, and are said to number near upon ten thousand families. They are subsequently referred to in the account of that district or territory[3]
      [edit] History

      The Jadoons were freedom fighters and they showed bravery against their rivals, especially the Sikhs and the British with other Pashtun tribes of the region like the, Swati, Tareens, Khaji khail and Shilmani. Their leader was Khan Sultan Muhammad khan Jadoon(chief of jadoon) during the freedom efforts against the Sikhs in the 20th century.Jadoons conquered the Hazara area from sikhs and are still the biggest land owners in the area,they are the most influential people in the area.[4]
      The famous historians sir J.Forbes and Sir John William Kaye said the following about the Jadoons.[5]
      “The Jadoons are not British subjects, though they inhabit a portion of the district called Hazara. They inhabit a portion of the frontier below, that is south of the Hussanzye tribe, lying on the right bank of the Indus, and opposite to the British town of Torbeyla. Westward their territory extends till it meets the higher ranges of the Hindoo Koosh. The Mahabun mountain, with its dense forest, lies within their boundary, and the whole tract is wild and rugged in an almost inconceivable degree. Though the Jadoons accompanied the Yoosufzyes when they descended from Kabool in the fifteenth century, and conquered and occupied the valley of Peshawaur, they claim to have an independent origin, and are separate from the Yoosufzyes. The Jadoons have spread into the neighbouring district of Hazara, and now form one of the strongest tribes of that province, occupying the central portion; their villages lying from 1,500 to 6,000 feet above the plains of the Indus. The Jadoons are a fair complexioned tribe, many of them having brown hair and beards, and ruddy colour, with grey or hazel eyes, and they are, for the most part, fair, with strong, athletic forms, extremely active, and capable of enduring great exertion and fatigue.[5]”
      Sir Edward Connolly said the following about the tribes of Jadoons in 1832[6]
      “"The Judoons are related to the Kaukar Affghan tribe and migrated to these parts, perhaps two or three centuries ago and are divided into two great branches, Salar and Munsoor of whom the first are settled to the east of Punjtar, and the rest in Drumtour. The Salars are said to have 64 villages, and to muster 6000 matchlocks; their government is a democracy, more rigid than that even of the Euosafzyes(yousufzais).I was nearly causing a quarrel at Gandaf, their chief town, by inadvertently asking who was their head Mullick. We were much struck by the appearance of wealth and comfort in their villages, which are large and populous and the Hindoos seemed to be more numerous and thriving amongst them, than in any other part of the country we visited."[7]”
      The Jadoons also rule the princely state of Jandala
      The Jadoons occupy all of the southeastern portion of the territory between the Peshawar and Hazara borders, and southern slopes of Mahaban, having taken their present lands in the eastern Sama after the Jadoons and various Kashi chiefs of the Afghans had defeated the Dilazaks, and when Jahangir finally crushed the Dilazaks, they spread up the Dor valley as high as Abbottabad. Early in the 18th Century, on the expulsion of the Karlugh Turks by Syed Jalal Baba they appropriated the country about Dhamtour, and about hundred years later they took the Bagra tract from the remaining few Dilazaks who held it, while shortly before the Sikhs took the country their Hassanzai clan deprived the Karral of a portion of the Nilan valley".


      Clans

      They are divided mainly into three clans, namely: Salar, Mansoor and Hassanzai.

      Hassazai's are furtherly divided into:[citation needed]
      • Sheikhmali Khail,
      • Bercha khail,
      • Peno khel,
      • Ismail Khail,
      • Badal Zai,
      • Hassain Khail,
      • Khawaja Ahmed Khail,
      • Ilyas Khail,
      • Panu Khel,
      • Dawlatzai,
      • UmarZai,
      • Mulla Khail,
      • Mohammadzai,
      • Shoaib Zai,
      • Musa Zai,
      • Imran Zai,
      • Haji khail,
      • Guram Zai,
      • adeeen khail,
      • Ondidar,
      • Badal Zai,
      • Shohali,
      • Eden Zai.



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      • #4
        i do not agree that jadoons migrated from jalal abad/afghanistan.
        There are some members of dawlazai tribe(a sub-tribe of mansoor/gadoon) living in nangarhar.According to the history of jaduns/tareehi jadoon/etc and what we heard from our mashran that gadoons are migrated from the west of kandahar a place called ,,ghorda margy.
        Also the word gadoon originated from ,,southren pashtu word ,,zjadoon,,later change to jadoon and now to yousufzais or eastren afghan pashtu ,,gadoon..



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        • #5
          All roads lead to Rome,in this case to Afghanistan.

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          • #6
            quest for the lost tribe.
            Another claim of jews over pashtun tribes.
            gadoon,rabani,waziris etc
            gadoon from ,,gad,,shinwar from ,,shiwun,rabani from reun isreali triebs.
            The peersains also spreading this news to further divide pashtuns.
            YouTube - [08/10] Quest For The Lost Tribes



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            • #7
              Mandarn tribe

              SAwabiwaals and mardanwals claim their yousufzai origin but in reality they are Mandarn not yousufzais.The yousufzasi are living in swat,buner,malakand and tor ghar.There are many yousufzais still in afghanistan in area of Kundus,nangarhar and few still in kandahar.The Mandarn tribe is related to yousufzai but they are the decendants of Omar a brother of yousuf.

              Chamla has been historically the locale of the Mandanr tribe. Mandanr are the largest group in the Swabi, Buner, and Mardan Districts.[1] Buner District is to the north, Swabi District to the south, and Mardan District is to the west. The population is distributed as follows:
              • Swabi: 1.2 million
              • Mardan (Mandanr): 1.5 million
              • Buner (Khudukhel): 0.2 million
              • Karachi: 0.3 million
              • Other cities (international): 0.3 million
              • Total: 3.5 million
              The Mandanr are organized into subdivisions. Mardan is inhabited largely by two sub-tribes of the Mandanr, the Kamalzai and Amazai. Kamalzais are further divided into two main branches: Masharanzai, near the towns of Toru and Kashranzai, and chiefly in the town of Mardan. Amazais are divided into two main branches, the Doulatzai and Ismialzai.

              The Uthmanzai of haripore are also Mandarn but their language is ,,khindko,,there.



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                • #9
                  ghilzai

                  Pashto Ghilzai/Gharzai: غرزی) are the third largest Pashtun tribal confederacy (after the Abdali and the Karlan) found in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They are also known historically as Ghilji, Ghalji, and possibly Gharzai. These Pashtun people are located mainly in southeastern Afghanistan, between Kandahar and Kabul, and extending eastwards towards the Suleiman Mountains into Pakistan.[1] In Afghanistan per se, they are the second largest Pashtun tribal confederation after the Abdali/Durrani. Ghilzai are considered to be one of the most courageous and tough Pashtun tribe.Contents

                  [hide]
                  [edit] Etymology

                  Further information: Kilij
                  One theory states that the name of the Ghilzai is derived from Gharzai (غرزی), meaning "son of mountain"[2] or "swordsman."[3]
                  The folk story is that the ancestor of the Ghilzai was a prince who married with the daughter of a local ruler. The couple are identified as "either Shah Hussain, a Ghurid prince, and Bibi Mato, a granddaughter of Qays Abdar Rasheed, the putative ancestor of all Pashtuns, or Mokarram Shah; Hussain from Ghor, and the daughter of a Pashtun noble."[4]
                  [edit] History and origins

                  Further information: Lodi Dynasty, Suri Dynasty, and Hotaki dynasty

                  The Ghilzais are a confederation of Pashtun tribes whose origin is unknown. They are reputed by some to be descended at least in part from the Ghurids.
                  Ḡalzī tribal genealogies in general trace their early descent from the union of either Shah Ḥosayn, a Ghurid (q.v.) prince, and Bībī Mātō, a granddaughter of Qays ʿAbd al-Rašīd, the putative ancestor of all Pashtuns, or Mokarram Shah, a Pashtun prince from Ḡūr, and the daughter of a Persian notable...[5]
                  —M. Jamil Hanifi
                  Others suggest that they descended from the Khalaj or Khilji Turks,[6][7] who entered Afghanistan in the 10th century. According to Elphinstone, the Khilji, "though Turks by descent...had so long settled among the Afghans that they had almost identified with that people."[8]
                  Ghilzais have played an important role in creating Afghan history. Afghan history would be incomplete without a complete understanding of them.
                  During the 14th and 15th centuries, various Ghilzai Afghan (Pashtun) dynasties took control over vast areas of India. The Lodi Dynasty ruled over the Delhi Sultanate during its last phase. The dynasty, founded by Bahlul Khan Lodi ruled from 1451 to 1526 when the last Lodi ruler, Ibrahim Lodi died. Other Ghilzai dynasties included the Suri Dynasty who was founded by the powerful medieval conqueror, Sher Shah Suri (Shere Khan), who defeated the Mughal Emperor Humayun in Chausa in June 1539 and again in Bilgram in May 1540.

                  Qalat-i-Ghilzai shown in this 1840s Lithograph by James Rattray (1818-1854)


                  When the Hotak tribe, under the leadership of Mir Wais Hotak revolted against the Safavid dynasty in 1709, the Ghilzai came into conflicts with their western neighbors. Mir Wais Hotak, an influential Afghan tribal leader and founder of the Hotaki dynasty, had visited the Persian court and studied their military weaknesses. The Afghan tribes (Pashtun tribes) rankled under the ruling Shia Safavids because of their continued attempts to convert the Pashtuns from Sunni to Shia Islam.[9] Spawning Afghan nationalism, Mirwais succeeded in expelling the Safavid Georgian Governor of Kandahar, Gurgin Khan, and assumed the post for himself. His eldest son, Mahmud, effected a successful invasion of Persia (now Iran) which culminated in the conquest of Isfahan and the deposition of the Safavid Shah Soltan Hosein. Mahmud was then crowned Shah and ruled for a brief period before being deposed by his own clansmen. His cousin and successor (Ashraf Khan) reigned for nearly five years before being killed by Baloch tribes while fleeing towards Kandahar. The Safavid dynasty in Iran was then restored in the person of Soltan Hosein's only surviving son, Tahmasp II.
                  During their short but violent occupation of Persia, the Hotakis mismanaged the state funds and administration, massacred civilians, caused famine, and largely destroyed the world-renowned imperial city of Isfahan. In just short seven years of their occupation of Isfahan (1722–1729), the population of the metropolis had dropped from around 1.2 million to just around 10,000 souls. In 1738 Nader Shah of Persia, on his way to occupy the Mughal India, overthrew Hussein, the last of the Hotakis at Kandahar, dispersed the Ghilzai and destroyed both Kandahar and Qalat-i-Ghilzai. Nader Shah then supported the rise of the rival Durrani Pashtuns, extinguishing the aspirations of the Ghilzais for the next three centuries.
                  In more recent times, three of the pro-communist presidents were Ghilzais, Nur Muhammad Taraki (of the Taraki tribe), Hafizullah Amin (of the Kharoti tribe), and Mohammed Najibullah (of the Ahmadzai sub tribe of suleimankhail). Although the Khalq was dominated mostly by Ghilzais, many of the Mujahideen were also Ghilzais during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, including the violent warlords, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf. The Taliban leadership, such as the headman, Mullah Omar and most of the Taliban functionaries have been likewise of the Ghilzai tribal confederacy, generating much ill will and disrepute for the Ghilzais.
                  Ghilzais are known to be extensively hospitable yet remain one of the most troubled and troublesome people among the Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan and continue to be subject of controversy and violence, concurrently, owing to their warlike nature.
                  [edit] Location and economy

                  The Ghilzais are concentrated in an area spanning Ghazni and Qalat-i-Ghilzai eastward into western Pakistan, but are predominantly a nomadic group unlike the Durranis who can be found in permanent settlements. They regularly cross over between the two countries often being exempted from customs due to the acceptance of their nomadic traditions by officials from both countries. Population estimates vary, but they are most likely around 20% to 25% of the population of Afghanistan and probably number over 9 million in Afghanistan alone with 4 million or more found in neighboring Pakistan. Most Ghilzais are Sunni Muslims of the Hanafi school, often devout to their faith and intensely follow the Pashtun code of honor known as Pashtunwali. Most Ghilzais work as herdsmen as well as construction workers and in other jobs that allow them to travel. Often possessing great mechanical aptitude, the Ghilzai nonetheless have an extremely low literacy rate hovering below 10% in Afghanistan but this improving especially in Pakistan where their literacy rate is fast approaching the national average of 58%.



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                  • #10
                    Th Ghilzais in afghanistan follow the code of pashtunwali and more pashtunists then the duranis.
                    The pashtun hero Mir Waiz Khan Hotak was belong to the Hotak tribe a sub_ tribe of ghilzai pashtuns.His son Mahmood Hotak rule over the persai/iran.
                    The Ghilzais defeated the iranians and at one stage the whole of persai was under pashtun king Mahmood.



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                    • #11
                      The ,,khalaj,,theory is not right.The ,,khalaj,,people and language is still there in iran and they speak their own khalaj language.
                      The Ghilzai pashtuns badly defeated the persains so the iranian historains make these fake claims about the powerfull pashtun tribe.
                      here is info about khalaj people and they are not related to pashtun Ghilzais.


                      the khalaj people of iran
                      The Khalaj people are a Turkic people that speak the Khalaj language which is thought to be one of the closest languages to old Turkic language.
                      Khalaj is a Turkic language spoken in Iran. There were approximately 42,000 speakers of this language as of 2000. ISO 639-3 uses the name Turkic Khalaj to distinguish it from the Indo-Iranian language called khalaj.
                      [edit] Classification

                      Khalaj has traditionally been classified with Turkmen or Azerbaijani dialects, primarily because of its proximity to those languages. However, it is not a dialect of Azerbaijani, as previously supposed. Further, features such as preservation of three vowel lengths, preservation of word-initial Proto-Turkic *h, and lack of the sound change *d > y has led to a non-Oghuz classification of Khalaj. An example of these archaisms is present in the word hadaq ("foot"), which has preserved the initial *h and medial *d. The equivalent form in nearby Oghuz dialects is ayaq. Therefore it is an independent language that became distinct very early from other extant Turkic languages[2][3]. Because of the preservation of these archaic features, some scholars have speculated that the Khalaj are the descendants of the Arghu Turks.
                      [edit] Geographical distribution

                      Khalaj is spoken mainly in Markazi Province in Iran. Doerfer cites the number of speakers as approximately 17,000 in 1968; the Ethnologue reports that the population of speakers grew to 42,107 by 2000. Most are bilingual in Persian; some children know only Persian[3].
                      [edit] Dialects

                      The main dialects of Khalaj are Northern and Southern. Within these dialect groupings, individual villages and groupings of speakers have distinct speech patterns.
                      [edit] Sounds

                      [edit] Consonants

                      Consonant phonemes LabialAlveolarPalatal or
                      postalveolarVelarUvularGlottalNasalmn ŋ Stoppbtdtʃdʒkɡqɢ Fricativefvszʃʒxɣ h Flap ɾ Approximant lj
                      [edit] Vowels


                      Vowels in Khalaj occur in three lengths: long (e.g. [qaːn] 'blood'), half-long (e.g. [baˑʃ] 'head'), and short (e.g. [hat] 'horse'). Additionally, some vowels are realized as falling diphthongs, as in [quo̯l] ('arm, sleeve').
                      [edit] Grammar

                      [edit] Morphology

                      [edit] Nouns

                      Nouns in Khalaj may receive a plural marker or possessive marker. Cases in Khalaj include genitive, accusative, dative, locative, ablative, instrumental, and equative.
                      Forms of case suffixes change based on vowel harmony and the consonants they follow. Case endings also interact with possessive suffixes. A table of basic case endings is provided below:
                      CaseSuffixNominative-Dative-A, -KAAccusative-I, -NILocative-čAAblative-dAInstrumental-lAn, -lA, -nAEquative-vāra
                      [edit] Verbs

                      Verbs in Khalaj are inflected for voice, tense, aspect, and negation. Verbs consist of long strings of morphemes in the following array:
                      Stem + Voice + Negation + Tense/Aspect + Agreement[edit] Syntax

                      Khalaj employs Subject Object Verb word order. Adjectives precede nouns.
                      [edit] Vocabulary

                      The core of Khalaj vocabulary is Turkic, but many words have been borrowed from Persian. Words from neighboring Turkic dialects, namely, Azerbaijani have also made their way into Khalaj.
                      [edit] Numbers

                      Khalaj numbers are Turkic in form, but some speakers replace the forms for "80" and "90" with Persian terms



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                      • #12
                        Thanks for posting, where is the source of these articles?

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                        • #13
                          Actually, the 'people' making the claims that the Khalaj were in Afghanistan are Muslim Historians. Just because they dont speak Pashto doesnt mean they have always been two distinct peoples. I'll elaborate further later.
                          Last edited by Midnight_Sun; 04-11-2011, 04:54 AM.

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                          • #14
                            Lodhis are not ghilzais

                            These articles are taken from wikipedia so it has many mistakes. In the article about ghilzais, it is mentioned that lodhis are ghilzais which is not true. Both ghiljay and lodhi were brothers and were sons of shah hussain of ghor and bibi mato. Tribes of both lodhi and ghiljay confederations are called mati tribes.
                            Ghiljay was older brother of lodhi, his descendants are numerous and are mostly found in afghanistan. Lodhi itself is large confederation and consist of lodhi, lohani, dotani, nuhani, suri, sherwani, niazi, marwat, miankhel, daulat khel , kundi and many other tribes.
                            Technically both ghilzais and lodhis are half pashtuns.

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                              Originally posted by Luffy View Post
                              These articles are taken from wikipedia so it has many mistakes. In the article about ghilzais, it is mentioned that lodhis are ghilzais which is not true. Both ghiljay and lodhi were brothers and were sons of shah hussain of ghor and bibi mato. Tribes of both lodhi and ghiljay confederations are called mati tribes.
                              Ghiljay was older brother of lodhi, his descendants are numerous and are mostly found in afghanistan. Lodhi itself is large confederation and consist of lodhi, lohani, dotani, nuhani, suri, sherwani, niazi, marwat, miankhel, daulat khel , kundi and many other tribes.
                              Technically both ghilzais and lodhis are half pashtuns.
                              thats right,ghilzai was the brother of lodhi.
                              it is loy de in pashtu later change to lodhi.
                              Lodhi was the elder brother of ghilzai.
                              i welcome members for comments.
                              In pashtun history books we got different views of some historains.
                              Ghilzais,lodhis,kakar,suris and other sub_tribe of gharghasht etc are the real inhabitants of ,,Ghor or ghar,,,afghan province .Many of them migrated from GHor,, to other parts of pashtunkhwa(ghazni,kandar,katawaz,lara pashtunkhwa/kp) and some were forced by the mongols from Ghor.

                              We still have pashtun living in small numbers in the south of ,,ghor,,many of them forgotton their language.
                              pashtuns are originated from ,,,ghor,,according to some sources.



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