The Panjpai (Dari: literally "five feet") are a
Durrani
The Durrānī ( ps, دراني, ), formerly known as Abdālī (), are one of the largest tribes of Pashtuns. Their traditional homeland is in southern Afghanistan (Loy Kandahar region), straddling into Toba Achakzai in Balochistan, Pakistan, but ...
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 ...
tribal confederation found primarily in southern Afghanistan.
The confederation's five tribes are generally given as the
Alizai,
Ishakzai
The Ishaqzai ( ps, اسحاقزى; Ey-sock-zah-ye) is an Afghan tribe of Abdālī clan (later Durrani) of the Pashtun people. They are known to populate the South-west of Afghanistan, particularly the provinces of Farah, Nimruz, Helmand,T.A.C. ...
,
Nurzai
Nurzai also spelled as ''Noorzai'' ( ps, نورزئی) (meaning ''son of the light'') is the name of a Pashtun tribe, part of the Panjpai section of Durrani Tareen Pashtuns.
The word "''nūr''" derives from the Arabic word for ''the light''. ...
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