Utmankhel ( ps, اتمان‌خېل) a

Pashtun 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 ...

tribe present in Pakistan, with substantial numbers in Afghanistan. They lie between the Mohmands and the Ranizais of Swat, to the west and south-west of the junction of the Swat and Panjkora rivers. The Utmankhels mostly living in Malakand, Bajawar, Mohmand, Lower Dir, Mardan and Orakzai. The Utmankhel are Pashtuns, part of the Karlani tribal confederacy, who fought against British and Mughals emperors in Pakhtunkhwa.The British regarded the Utmankhel tribesmen as “warlike” peoples and one of the Martial Race.The Utmankhel are a tall, stout and fair race, but their dress and general customs have been assimilated by the neighbouring peoples of Bajuar. Utmankhels speak the same dialect of Pashtu called Peshawari/Northeastern Pashto.

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* Bahadar Khan -(Lower Dir) * Gul Dad Khan-(Bajaur) *

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-(Lower Dir) * Nisar Muhammad-(Malakand) * Fida Mohammad Khan (politician)-(Malakand) *

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-(Lower Dir) * Ajmal Khan (politician) -(Bajaur) * Inayatullah Khan (Pakistani politician) * Muhammad Khan Toor Utmankhel * Rahmat Shah Sail * Muhammad Umar Khan "Swal Qilla Malak" -(Bajaur) * Sajid Afghan, writer and poet from Lower Dir

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* A-H. McMahon and A.D.G. Ramsay Report on the Tribes of Dir, Swat and Bajour together with the Utmankhel and Sam Ranizai, reprint 1981, p. 27. Henceforth McMahon and Ramsay

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* * http://www.antiquesatoz.com/stephenherold/nwfrontc.htm Expeditions Against the Tribes of the Northwest Frontier Province from 1847 to 1908 * Documents compiled by the Intelligence Department of the Government of British India, 1937 Who's Who Directory of Dir Swat and Chitral Agency * https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11018225 CALCUTTA, Newspaper Feb. 27. 1935 * Zamung Mujahidin By Abdul Haleem Asar Afghani * Gumnam Pakhtun Heroes by Farhad Ali Khawar {{Authority control Karlani Pashtun tribes

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