The Gandapur (
Pashto
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Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...
: ګنډہ پور Urdu: گنڈہ پور ) also called Gandapore, is a
Pashtun
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tribe, which is based in
Pakistan
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and
Afghanistan
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.
It is a Pathan tribe which lives in the Damaan Valley Damaan Valley is a valley of Dera Ismail Khan District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is situated 55 km from Dera Ismail Khan. Sherani mountain range on its west side and Sulaiman Range in the south-west. Pezu mountains Sheikh ...
of Dera Ismail Khan District
Dera Ismail Khan District ( ps, ډېره اسماعیل خان ولسوالي, bal, ڈیرہ عِسمائیل خان, ur, , skr, ; often abbreviated as D.I. Khan) is a district in Dera Ismail Khan Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in P ...
of Pakistan.[ The majority of Gandapurs live in ]Kulachi Tehsil
Kulachi Tehsil is a tehsil located in Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.[Khurasan
Greater Khorāsān,Dabeersiaghi, Commentary on Safarnâma-e Nâsir Khusraw, 6th Ed. Tehran, Zavvâr: 1375 (Solar Hijri Calendar) 235–236 or Khorāsān ( pal, Xwarāsān; fa, خراسان ), is a historical eastern region in the Iranian Plate ...](_blank)
and India.[
The Gandapur tribe took part in Pathan tribal wars during the 18th century. They also fought against the ]Sikh Empire
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(1799-1849). A part of the tribe also lives in Sur Kalay (سور کلے) in Ghazni Province
Ghazni (Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in southeastern Afghanistan. The province contains 19 districts, encompassing over a thousand villages and roughly 1.3 million people, making it the 5th most populous province. The ...
of Afghanistan.[
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References
Pashto-language surnames
Pakistani names
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