Abakhel

Aba Khel is a subtribe of the Mandanr Yusufzai Pashtun tribe. Their settlements are located mainly in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Their settlements include the villages of Zaida, Kaddi, Hund, Shah Mansur, Khunda, Ambar, Panjpir, Beka, Aryan, Lahor, Kheshgi Nowshera Kalan (in the Nowshera District), and Ragastoon.

Lineage

Aba Khel are descendents of the Mandanr tribe. Mandanr had four sons, Mano, Hazar, Razar, and Mahmoud. Mano had two sons, Usman and Utman. Usman had two sons, Amanzai and Kamalzai. Utman had four sons, Akazai, Sadozai, Alizai and Kannazai. The descendants of Utman's son Sadozai are called Sadu Zais who were further divided into five families including Aba Khel, Umar Khel, Khadu Khel, Mir Ahmad Khel and Behzad Khel. Descendants of Aba Khel family then settled in the districts Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.^[1]

Family tree

Sadu Zai subtribe

History

Yusafzai are named after Yusaf who was the son of Manday along with Umar. Umar died early and left behind his son Mandanr who married the daughter of his uncle Yusaf. The descendants of both Yusaf and Mandanr are together called Yousafzai.^[2]

People

• Nisar Muhammad Yousafzai, War Hero of the Afghan War of Independence and a founding father of Tajikistan^[3]

References

1. Khan Roshan Khan. 'Yusafzai qaum ki sarguzasht.
2. "Pashtun Tribes/Yusafzai". Mr. Ahmad Jan Saib - Stare Meshe (Newspaper) 1932 khyber.org (in Pashto). Archived from the original on April 15, 2013.
3. EditorTimes (2020) Nisar Muhammad of Village Zaida by Arif Hasan Khan Akhundzada
   "Nisar Mohammad’s official identity is that of a Pashtun of the Ayubkhel clan of the Abakhel Mandanr sub-section"