Balar Khel (بلڑ خیل) is the largest
Khel in Usi Khel,
Aba Khel subtribe of
Mandanr
The Mandanr, Mandar, or Mandan are a Pashtun tribe, branch of Yusufzai. They are the children of Mand, who was the son of Umar baba. Umar Baba was the brother of Yousaf, Umar left the tribe and moved from Kandahar to Hassanabdal. An Arab Quraysh fa ...
Yusafzai
The Yusufzai or Yousafzai ( ps, یوسفزی, ), also referred to as the Esapzai (, ) are one of the largest tribes of ethnic Pashtuns. They are natively based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, to which they migrated to from Suliman mountains du ...
inhabiting
Yar Hussain
Yar Hussain is one of the largest towns in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, lying about from the district capital of Mardan and from the provincial capital of Peshawar
Peshawar (; ps, پېښور ; hnd, ; ; ur, ) is the ...
village
Swabi District &
Garhi Kapoora Mehmood Abad Gumbat Mardan villages of
Mardan District of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...
in
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
.
History
Traditionally
Pathan
Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically re ...
tribes live according to a strong family system in which the family is named after the father. Balar Khel thus means the sons of Balar. Family groups prefer to live together and the area is named after their
Khel. In the 16th century in the
Yusafzai
The Yusufzai or Yousafzai ( ps, یوسفزی, ), also referred to as the Esapzai (, ) are one of the largest tribes of ethnic Pashtuns. They are natively based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, to which they migrated to from Suliman mountains du ...
tribe during the time of
Malik Ahmed different ''Khels'' were divided by his deputy
Sheikh Mali and settlements thus included representatives of all ''Khels''. The idea behind this division was to let all ''Khels'' have a share of all types of land. This led to the loss of brotherhood among members of each Khel and the development of rivalries on the basis of villages instead of ancestry.
References
{{Pashtun tribes
Yusufzai Pashtun tribes