Yusefzais of Swat are originally from Kabul

[graveyardofempires]

ive heard that Yusefzais esppecially the ones from Swat are originally from Kabul
Kabul used to be inhabited by Yusefzais alomst in all 4 corners of Kabul.

the King in that time evicted them out of kabul because he felt threatend that they might take over the government.
They moved to swat and settled there,offcourse there are also Yusefzais in other parts of Pukhtunkhwa but this is specifically about the
Yusefzais of Swat.

anyone knows more about this?

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btw i also foudn out that Mamund is part of Momand.

[emkhan]

Any reference ???

[graveyardofempires]

Any reference ???

what do you mean?
a book written by some foreigner?

well my father told me.

yesterday we had this guy as guest who was pashtun and couldnt speak pashto ,i asked him where he was from as i was thinking he is some farsiwan,he said he is Yusefzais originally from Swat.
My father told him that actually the yusefzais in swat were originally from Kabul and they moved to Swat because of pressure from the king.

i will ask him the specifics and get back to you,maybe he has a book about it.

[emkhan]

OK dear.

[Mandharh]

Cutting the long story short, I have read that Esapzais originally belonged to Swat, Peshawar and Mardan areas well before from King Ashoka time. Later a tribe called Dilazaq expelled them in a war around 8th century and the Esaphzais moved to Kandahar. Later they moved to Kabul and after mughal king killed all their leaders by poisoning their meal. Esepzais united and invaded first their old habitat of Swat and recaptured it from Dilazaqs.
Indeed there is an article about this which I will upload later which includes all the references.

[badmash_khel]

Yusufzi belong to the Abdali confideration and so do Mohmands and other tribes of pakhtunkhwa. Yusufzai's original homeland is somewhere around Kandahar.

[graveyardofempires]

Cutting the long story short, I have read that Esapzais originally belonged to Swat, Peshawar and Mardan areas well before from King Ashoka time. Later a tribe called Dilazaq expelled them in a war around 8th century and the Esaphzais moved to Kandahar. Later they moved to Kabul and after mughal king killed all their leaders by poisoning their meal. Esepzais united and invaded first their old habitat of Swat and recaptured it from Dilazaqs.
Indeed there is an article about this which I will upload later which includes all the references.

please do put the article.

[khushal]

Cutting the long story short, I have read that Esapzais originally belonged to Swat, Peshawar and Mardan areas well before from King Ashoka time. Later a tribe called Dilazaq expelled them in a war around 8th century and the Esaphzais moved to Kandahar. Later they moved to Kabul and after mughal king killed all their leaders by poisoning their meal. Esepzais united and invaded first their old habitat of Swat and recaptured it from Dilazaqs.
Indeed there is an article about this which I will upload later which includes all the references.

This is unlikely and probably is written to create some sort of claim that the yusephzai reclaimed their orginal homeland instead of invaders from kabul who were orginally from Kandahar.

[Mandharh]

huh, Khoshal why u wanna restart khattaks esaphzais fightings again?
The current lands belonged to Pashtuns from thousands of years, only tribes migrated mutually.
I will put it here once I find time to do so..

[khushal]

huh, Khoshal why u wanna restart khattaks esaphzais fightings again?
The current lands belonged to Pashtuns from thousands of years, only tribes migrated mutually.
I will put it here once I find time to do so..

what did I say that would start a feud. Its a fact that yusephzai are from kandahar.

[Michin Khel]

There is much uncertainty as to the exact date when the Yousafzai's settled in the country that now bears their name. According to Akhun Darwaiza, they came from Kandahar, Afghanistan ; and in their migration eastward, arrived at Kabul when Mirza Ulugh Beg was governor. He succeeded his father Shah Rukh Sultan, who was the son of Taimur Lang, in 1446 A.D. The whole of Peshawar district had already been colonized by different Afghan tribes; and, on his second visit, fourteen years later, he found that the Yousafzai's had spread well into swat. The settlement of the Yousafzai's in their present limits, on these data, must, therefore, have been between and subsequent to the dates above-mentioned.

An account from the migration from Kandahar of the Yousafzai's, their wanderings, and final settlement in their present limits which are, Districts Swabi, Mardan, Malakand, Bunair, Swat and Dir . It will suffice here to note that they took their present possessions from the Dilazaks, whom, without much difficulty, they drove over the Indus to the Hazarah mountains, after a single but desperate and decisive battle fought on the plain between the villages of Gadar and Langarkot. The site of the latter village is the present Garhikapura, which is near Mardan.

It was not clear who the Dilazaks were, they were supposed to be"Tarkilanri Pukhtoons", but the Yousafzai's dismissed this relationship and took them as from an Indian origin. After setting themselves firmly in the plain, the Yousafzai's pushed on into the hill country beyond , and in a few years were the masters of Swat and Bunair. In 1519 A.D, when Babur journeyed this way, their limit included the lower half of Swat, and it was subsequent to this that they spread into their present limits. For many years after Babur's time, the Yousafzai's under the government of Malik Ahmed and Sheikh Malik lived in peace and prosperity , and devoted themselves to the cultivation of their newly acquired lands, which were about this time divided into hereditary lots and distributed amongst the different clans and their respective families, by common consent, under the direction of Sheikh Mali. The division of the land then made holds good to the present day throughout the Yousafzai Country.

But when Khan Kajoh succeeded to the chiefship, a feud broke out between the Yousafzai's and their neighbors the Ghorikhails, who occupied the Peshawar district. It lasted many years, both sides facing serious loses and injuries. This was finally settled by the great clan fight at Shaikh Patur, when the whole of the Ghorikhails were completely broken and dispersed, and lost numbers of their men and women captives to the victorious Yousafzai's. Shortly after this event, and during the early part of Akbar's reign, the Yousafzai's were further strengthened by the removal of their constant enemies the Dilazaks,. A great many of their families were deported to Hindustan, and their villages were made over to the Mahmands.

Whilst in this part of his extensive dominions, Akbar built the fort of Attak Banaras, and placed his son Salim in it as Governor. It was about this time, that the tribes of Lamghan, Bajawar and Swat quarrelled as to the boundaries of their respective lands. The Yousafzai's who had never yet succeeded in occupying the whole of Swat, seized this opportunity for the advancement of their own interests, and formed an alliance with the Lamghanis, or Lughmanis, and both together ousted the Bajawaris and Barr Swatis, and appropriated their lands. The Yousafzai's took Barr Swat and the hill to its North while the Lamghans took Bajawar.

After setting down, agents came several times from the government to get their government dues but the Yousafzai's drove them out. This called for the emperor Aurungzaib Alamgir to enter with his troops, but the Yousafzai's did not wait for them and made a strategical retreat to the hill. After sometime they came back down and we re-allotted their homes and land. Some were taken as hostages as to be a lesson for the Yousafzai's for the future. After this they kept quite and peaceful during Shah Alam's reign. But in the following reign of Mahomad Shah, the Yousafzai's once again started to disobey government policies and rebelled against the authority of the governor of Peshawar, and laid violent hands on his son who was amongst those who came to collect the revenue. The Yousafzai's continued this in 1725A.D when it was Nadir Shah's reign. as the Yousafzai's were the only Afghans who refused submission to his authority. When the Mughals entered the Yousafzai land, the Yousafzai once again retreated to the hills, but this time the Mughals were harsh and burned down all the crops and lands , leaving the sick and old with difficulties to escape. When the Mughals tried to go uphill to fight the Yousafzai's , the Yousafzai's full of spirit ran down the hill weilding their swords and attacked the Mughals, they in return started panicking and retreated. The Yousafzai's with increased clamor , poured down the hill from all sides and pushed the retreating enemy as far as the Chalpani Ravine. In 1823 the Sikhs became the masters of Peshawar , punishing the Yousafzai on numerous accounts. In 1835, Dost Muhammad Khan came down from Kabul to fight the Sikhs. His troops however retreated without meeting the enemy, but not before they had plundered the whole country as far as the Indus. A couple of years later the Kabul leader came down to face the Sikhs. He was more successful than his previous expeditions, and after a confrontation managed to kill the Sikh general , Hari Singh at jamrudzai. He then proceeded to squeeze from the unfortunate peasants what little the Sikhs had failed to extract. He and his Durranis departed laden with the curses of the people, who declare them to have been greater tyrants than the Sikhs. About this time, Sir Alexander Burnes arrived at Kabul. His mission led to the advance of a British army into these lands in 1828. In 1841 acquired the memorable revolt at Kabul. In the following year came the avenging army under general Pollock. His troops performed only in time to join the Sikh campaigns that brought them into Punjab in 1845-46, and ended with the establishment of the British rule through all the country, as far as Peshawar in 1819. This then led to the colonization of the area. However, the Yousafzai still with their old traditions and rules led their normal life style and continue to do so until now.

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[tor_khan]

This past summer when I was in Kabul, I had a long chat with a Yousafzai gentlemen who was born and raised in Kabul itself. He reaffirmed the story told to me by my elders about the Yousafzai migration to Swat/Malakand and the surrounding areas.

You guys might want to read the chapter that begins on page 10 of this publication which deals with operations that took place in Swat two years back: http://ipripak.org/factfiles/ff111.pdf . This chapter, in particular discusses the Yousafzai migration from Kabul, and the reasons behind it.

[Millatpal Noorzai]

ive heard that Yusefzais esppecially the ones from Swat are originally from Kabul
Kabul used to be inhabited by Yusefzais alomst in all 4 corners of Kabul.

the King in that time evicted them out of kabul because he felt threatend that they might take over the government.
They moved to swat and settled there,offcourse there are also Yusefzais in other parts of Pukhtunkhwa but this is specifically about the
Yusefzais of Swat.

anyone knows more about this?

.................................................. ........
btw i also foudn out that Mamund is part of Momand.

Don't know much about the historic demographics, geography and migration of Yousafzais but do know several families from Kandahar, Kabul and northern Afghanistan that are Yousafzais by tribe.

[graveyardofempires]

Don't know much about the historic demographics, geography and migration of Yousafzais but do know several families from Kandahar, Kabul and northern Afghanistan that are Yousafzais by tribe.

there are alot of yusefzais all over Afghanistan
here i was talking about the yusefzais of swat that before they got to swat they used to live in kabul and all four corners of kabul were inhabited by them.

i dont know if they all came from kandahar to kabul or they lived there for centuries.

[tor_khan]

The general accepted historic pattern of movement for the Swati Yusufzais is said to be Kandahar - Kabul - Swat.