Shamankhel or Shaman Khel (
Pashto
Pashto ( , ; , ) is an eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Khyb ...
: شمن خېل) is one of the
Mahsud subtribes. They live in three different places in
South Waziristan
South Mahsud Waziristan District () was a Districts of Pakistan, district in the Dera Ismail Khan Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, before splitting into the Lower South Waziristan District and the Upper South Waziristan D ...
.
Ladha,
Sararogha, and
Serwekai.
Sub-castes
Shamankhel are divided by four sub-castes:
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Chiyarkhel
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Khalikhel
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Badinzai
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Galishai
Notable people
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Manzoor Pashteen
External links
nps.edu
Karlani Pashtun tribes
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