The Zadran ( ps, ځدراڼ ''dzadrāṇ''; pronounced ''dzādroṇ'' in the
Khost-Paktia dialect), also spelled Dzadran or Jadran, is a
Pashtun tribe
The Pashtun tribes ( ps, پښتانه قبايل), historically also known as Afghan tribes, are the tribes of the Pashtun people, a large Eastern Iranian ethnic group who use the Pashto language and follow Pashtunwali code of conduct. They ar ...
that inhabits the
Loya Paktia
Lōya Paktiā ( ps, لويه پکتيا; lit. Greater Paktia) is a historical and cultural region of Afghanistan, comprising the modern Afghan provinces of Khost, Paktia, and Paktika, as well as parts of Logar region in southeastern
Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...
(
Khost
Khōst ( ps, خوست) is the capital of Khost Province in Afghanistan. It is the largest city in the southeastern part of the country, and also the largest in the region of Loya Paktia. To the south and east of Khost lie Waziristan and Kurram in ...
,
Paktia
Paktia (Pashto/Dari: – ''Paktyā'') is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the east of the country. Forming part of the larger Loya Paktia region, Paktia Province is divided into 15 districts and has a population of roughly 6 ...
, and
Paktika
Paktika (Pashto/Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. Forming part of the larger Loya Paktia region, Paktika has a population of about 789,000, mostly ethnic Pashtuns. The town of Sharana ...
provinces) and parts of
Waziristan
Waziristan (Pashto and ur, , "land of the Wazir") is a mountainous region covering the former FATA agencies of North Waziristan and South Waziristan which are now districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Waziristan covers some . ...
in neighboring
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...
. "Zadran: Pashtun tribe mainly residing in the “Zadran Arc” a 9-district area encompassing portions of the Khost, Paktya, and Paktika provinces."
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The Zadran are a branch of the
Karlani
Karlāṇī ( ps, کرلاڼي) is a Pashtun tribal confederacy. They primarily inhabit the FATA region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan and certain parts of eastern Afghanistan. In the 16th century the Karlani founded the Karrani dynas ...
tribal confederacy.
They are the largest Pashtun tribal group in Afghanistan's mountainous southeastern region, usually found in areas that are unsuitable for settled
agricultural production
Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to ...
. They have a reputation for militancy dating to the
Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989. It saw extensive fighting between the Soviet Union and the Afghan mujahideen (alongside smaller groups of anti-Soviet ...
. Well-known Taliban fighter
Jalaluddin Haqqani
Jalaluddin Haqqani ( ps, جلال الدين حقاني, Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī) (1939 – 3 September 2018) was an Afghan insurgent commander who founded the Haqqani network, an insurgent group fighting in guerilla warfare against US-led ...
, who in later years headed the
Haqqani network
The Haqqani network is an Afghan Islamist group, built around the family of the same name, that has used asymmetric warfare in Afghanistan to fight against Soviet forces in the 1980s, and US-led NATO forces and the Islamic Republic of Afghanis ...
, is of the Zadran tribe himself, though he is recognized for ending the ''
malik
Malik, Mallik, Melik, Malka, Malek, Maleek, Malick, Mallick, or Melekh ( phn, 𐤌𐤋𐤊; ar, ملك; he, מֶלֶךְ) is the Semitic term translating to "king", recorded in East Semitic and Arabic, and as mlk in Northwest Semitic duri ...
'' system by forcing
Mohammad Omar Babrakzai to leave
Paktia province
Paktia (Pashto/Dari: – ''Paktyā'') is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the east of the country. Forming part of the larger Loya Paktia region, Paktia Province is divided into 15 districts and has a population of roughly 6 ...
. Babrakzai was the most powerful ''malik'', or tribal chieftain, of the Zadran in the 1980s.
List of chieftains
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Babrak Khan (unknown – )
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Mazrak Zadran
Mazrak Khan Zadran (Pashto: زمرک خان ځدراڼ; 1900s – 1972) was a Zadran chieftain who fought against the Afghan government during the Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947 in order to support the restoration of King Amanullah Khan. S ...
( – 11 January 1947)
* Abdulla Khan Jadran Yawan (as of 1969)
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Muhammad Umar Babrakzai
Muhammad Umar Babrakzai ( 1980 – present) is the tribal chief of the Zadran tribe and Afghan jurist.
Background and early life
Babrakzai is the grandson of Babrak Khan, a previous Zadran chieftain who died in 1924 or 1925, though it's unclea ...
(bef. 1980 – present)
It is unclear if Abdulla Khan Jadran Yawan is the immediate successor or predecessor of Mazrak Zadran and Muhammad Umar Babrakzai respectively, or if there were other chieftains between them.
Tribal tree
The known
tribal
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to conflic ...
tree for the Zadran tribe is:
Moosa Khel was the father of three sons, Bakir Khel, Sounda Khel and Barkhudar Khel
Bakir Khel was the father of Noor Kalia Khel
Noor Kalia Khel was the father of Ismail Khel
Ismail Khel was the father of Jaan Muhammad Khel
Jaan Muhammad Khel was the father of two sons, Shah Muhammad Khan Zadran and Noor Muhammad Khan Zadran
Noor Muhammad Khan had five sons
1 Sadiq Hussain Khan Zadran
2 Ashiq Hussain Khan Zadran
3 Izhaar Hussain Khan Zadran
4 Dildaar Hussain Khan Zadran
5 Afzaal Hussain Khan Zadran
Afzaal Hussain Khan Zadran was the father of two sons
1 Iklaq Khan Zadran and 2 Umair Khan Zadran
Umair Khan Zadran was the father of Muhammad Khan Zadran
Notable persons
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Said Akbar Babrak
Said Akbar Khan Babrakzai or Said Akbar Khan (1921 or 1922 – 16 October 1951) was an Afghan tribesman who assassinated the first Prime Minister and a leading founding father of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, at Company Bagh in Rawalpindi on 16 ...
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Mazrak Zadran
Mazrak Khan Zadran (Pashto: زمرک خان ځدراڼ; 1900s – 1972) was a Zadran chieftain who fought against the Afghan government during the Afghan tribal revolts of 1944–1947 in order to support the restoration of King Amanullah Khan. S ...
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Babrak Khan
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Saad Akbar Babrak
Said Akbar Khan Babrakzai or Said Akbar Khan (1921 or 1922 – 16 October 1951) was an Afghan tribesman who assassination, assassinated the List of Prime Ministers of Pakistan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan, Prime Minister and List of Pakistan ...
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Jalaluddin Haqqani
Jalaluddin Haqqani ( ps, جلال الدين حقاني, Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī) (1939 – 3 September 2018) was an Afghan insurgent commander who founded the Haqqani network, an insurgent group fighting in guerilla warfare against US-led ...
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Sirajuddin Haqqani
Sirajuddin Haqqani ( ps, سراج الدين حقاني, Sirāj al-Dīn Ḥaqqānī, ; aliases ''Khalifa'', and, ''Siraj Haqqani''. born December 1979) is an Afghan Islamist militant who is the first deputy leader of Afghanistan and the acting ...
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Pacha Khan Zadran Pacha Khan Zadran ( ps, پاچا خان ځدراڼ) is a militia leader and a politician in the southeast of Afghanistan. He was an ex anti-Soviet-fighter militia leader who played a role in driving the Taliban from Paktia Province in the 2001 inva ...
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Najeebullah Zadran
Najibullah Zadran ( ps, ; born 28 February 1993) is an Afghan cricketer and the vice captain of the Afghanistan Twenty20 International (T20I) side. Zadran is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm off break. He made his international debut f ...
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Shapoor Zadran
Shapoor Zadran ( ps, ; born 8 July 1987) is an Afghan cricketer. Zadran is a left-arm fast-medium bowler. Zadran currently plays for the Afghanistan national cricket team.
Domestic career
Zadran made his debut for Afghanistan against Chitral i ...
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Djelaludin Sharityar
Djelaludin Sharityar ( fa, جلالالدین شریعتیار) is an Afghan footballer defender and was the captain of the Afghanistan national football team.
His career started in 1998 in Germany when as a youth he played for VfL Wolfsb ...
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Musa Zadran
Musa may refer to:
Places
* Mūša, a river in Lithuania and Latvia
* Musa, Azerbaijan, a village in Yardymli Rayon
* Musa, Iran, a village in Ilam Province
* Musa, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran
*Musa, Kerman, Iran
* Musa, Bukan, West Azerbaija ...
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Noor Ali Zadran
Noor Ali Zadran (Pashto: نور علی ځدراڼ; born 10 July 1988) is an Afghan cricketer. Ali is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler who plays for the Afghanistan national cricket team. He cites Ricky Ponting as his ...
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Dawlat Zadran
Dawlat Zadran ( ps, ; born 19 March 1988) is an Afghan cricketer. Zadran is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast. He was born in Paktia Province.
Career
Zadran made his List A debut for Afghanistan when they became the first side ...
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Ibrahim Zadran
Ibrahim Zadran ( ps, ابراهیم ځدراڼ; born 12 December 2001) is an Afghan cricketer. He made his Test match debut for the Afghanistan cricket team in September 2019.
Domestic career
He made his List A debut for Mis Ainak Region in t ...
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Mujeeb Zadran
Mujeeb Ur Rahman Zadran ( ps, مجیب الرحمن ځدراڼ; born 28 March 2001) is an Afghan cricketer, who plays for the Afghanistan national cricket team. Two months after his international debut, at the age of 16 years and 325 days, he b ...
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Sher Muhd Khan Sher can refer to:
People
* Sher, a Baloch people, Baloch tribe in Pakistan
* Sher-e-Bangla (''Lion of Bengal''), a popular title of 20th century Bengali statesman A. K. Fazlul Huq
* Sher-e-Punjab (''Lion of Punjab''), a popular title of Mahara ...
Hazrat Wali Zadran
Izat khan Zadran
Dr.ayub Zadran
Rashid Saqeeb
Rashid or Rachid ( ar, راشد ) and Rasheed ( ar, رشيد ), which means "rightly guided", may refer to:
*Rashid (name), also Rachid and Rasheed, people with the given name or surname
*Rached, a given name and surname
*Rashad, a surname
Plac ...
Alefkhan Zadran
Ibrahim Zadran
Ibrahim Zadran ( ps, ابراهیم ځدراڼ; born 12 December 2001) is an Afghan cricketer. He made his Test match debut for the Afghanistan cricket team in September 2019.
Domestic career
He made his List A debut for Mis Ainak Region in t ...
Yaqoob Zadran
See also
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Zerok
Zēṛōk ( ps, زېړوک) is the main town of Zerok District in Paktika Province, Afghanistan.Loya Paktia
Lōya Paktiā ( ps, لويه پکتيا; lit. Greater Paktia) is a historical and cultural region of Afghanistan, comprising the modern Afghan provinces of Khost, Paktia, and Paktika, as well as parts of Logar
References
External links
Karlani Pashtun tribes
Ethnic groups in Khost Province
Ethnic groups in Paktia Province
Ethnic groups in Paktika Province
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