The Wazirs or Waziris ( ps, وزير) are a

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 dyn ...

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 found mainly in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region of North waziristan, South Waziristan and Bannu Ahmadzai Wazir (Domel) and Utmanzai wazir (Baka Khel and Jani Khel) The Utmanzai are settled in the

North Waziristan Agency North Waziristan District ( ps, شمالي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is the northern part of Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanist ...

and the Ahmadzai are in the South Waziristan Agency and Bannu domel. Those subgroups are in turn divided further, for example into Utmanzai tribes such as the Baka Khel and Jani Khel. The Wazirs speak the

Waziristani dialect Waziristāní ( ps, وزیرستانۍ), also known as Wazirwóla ( ps, وزیرواله, meaning "of the Wazirs") and Wazirí, is a central Pashto dialect spoken in North Waziristan and South Waziristan. Waziristani differs in pronunciation and ...

Pashto Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...

. The common ancestor of the Ahmadzai and Utmanzai is believed by them to be the eponymous Wazir, who is also ancestor to the

Mehsud The Mahsud or Mehsood ( ps, محسود), also spelled Maseed ( ps, ماسيد), is a Karlani Pashtun tribe inhabiting mostly the South Waziristan Agency in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, now merged within Khy ...

tribe that has since taken a distinct and divergent path. Through Wazir, the tribes trace their origins to

and thence to the founder of the Pashtun lineage,

Qais Abdur Rashid Qais Abdur Rashīd or Qais Abdul Rasheed ( ps, قيس عبد الرشيد) is said to be, in post-Islamic lore, the legendary founding father of the Pashtuns. It is believed that the conception of such a figure was promoted to bring harmony betw ...

. Some western

ethnologists Ethnology (from the grc-gre, ἔθνος, meaning 'nation') is an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology). ...

consider them of being mix of

Arachosia Arachosia () is the Hellenized name of an ancient satrapy situated in the eastern parts of the Achaemenid empire. It was centred around the valley of the Arghandab River in modern-day southern Afghanistan, and extended as far east as the ...

n or

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

ethnicity. Although the Utmanzai and Mehsud tribes have a traditional rivalry and live in geographically distinct regions, the Ahmadzai and Mehsud communities co-exist peacefully and many head men are connected by marriage.

Notable members

* Maulana Noor Muhammad * Haji Mirzali Khan Wazir *

Shah Muhammad Khan Shah Muhammad Khan is Pakistani politician. He belong to Narmi Khel tribe of Baka Khel - a sub group of Utmanzai Wazir, Bannu. He is member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Political career Shah Muhammad won the PK-89 Bannu-III provincial asse ...

* Ali Wazir *

Arif Wazir Sardar Muhammad Arif Afghan Wazir ( ps, محمد عارف افغان وزیر; 2 May 1982 – 2 May 2020) was a Pashtun nationalist politician, activist, and one of the leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). He was a member of the Pashtu ...

* Muolana shakirullah sahib *

Zartaj Gul Zartaj Gul (Pashto, ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister of State for Climate Change, in Imran Khan ministry between 5 October 2018 and 10 April 2022 after Imran Khan was ousted by No-confidence motion against Imran Khan. She ...

Muhammad Iqbal Wazir Muhammad Iqbal Wazir is a Pakistani politician who is member-elect of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Political career Wazir contested 2019 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election on 20 July 2019 from constituency PK-111 (North Wa ...

Ayesha Gulalai Wazir Ayesha Gulalai Wazir ( ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who was a former Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2013 to May 2018. Early life and education Ayesha Gulalai was born in Bannu domel and received her master's degree from t ...

Maria Toorpakai Wazir Maria Toorpakai Wazir ( ps, ; ur, ; born November 22, 1990 in South Waziristan, FATA) is a professional Pakistani squash player. She dressed like a boy for the first 16 years of her life in order to participate in competitive sports as a Musli ...

* Mir Kalam Wazir * Mohammad Wasim

Notable members

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