Kakar
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Kakar is the name one of the largest Pashtun tribes, with members living in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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[edit] History
According to the history of Afghanistan, the Kakar tribe established an empire in Afghanistan and spread the glory of their family name. The originator of the Kakar tribe is Dani, who was son of Ghourghusht and grandson of Qais Abdur Rashid. Some Afghan clans related to the Kakar family include:
Sanzarkhel, Taraghzai or Taragharai and Santia (sub tribe of Abubakarzai Kakar) are the biggest sub-tribes of the Kakar in Balochistan. Historians such as Abdul Hai Habibi and Bahdur Shah Zafar Kakakhel are confident that the Jadoon are also part of the Kakar tribe. Hanbhi which are included in Alizai Kakar. The Kakar also make the largest tribe of Pashtons.
Kakar have descendants in western provinces of Pakistan but are mostly in Afghanistan and eastern Iran.
[edit] Sher Shah Suri and Kakar
Sher Shah Suri or Sher Khan's real name was Farid Khan. His father's name was Hassan Khan and his grandfather's name wae Ibrahim Khan Suri. Ibrahim was a middle-class and common man of ROWA (an independent land of Afghans which included the territories of Hasan Abdal, Kabul, Peshawar, Herat, Kandahar and Koh-e-Sulaiman), and belonged to the sub-tribe Barakzai of Kakar. Barakzai is a sub-tribe of Taraghzai, son of Kakar. According to Sir Olaf Caroe, author of the book The Pathans, Sher Shah was born in Sasaram in (Bihar) in 1479 CE, where his father was a landlord and a respected ally of the Mughal Empire. The real homeland of Sher Shah was likely located between Qaisi Ghar and Koh-e-Sulaiman, near the Kozhak range.
Kalkar Najin, in his book Sher Shah and His Times, asserts that this place is between Chaman and Ghazni and that it is Sargergai Toba Kakar(Toba Kakar Ranges), sargergai is center of Ahmad Khel area, where the Kakar tribe has been living for centuries. Sir Olaf claims that when Sher Shah was young, he hunted and killed a lion (likely a Bengal tiger) by his own sword—and since the lion is called "Sher" in the local languages, the people of the area began to call him "Sher Khan". Sher Shah's hunting of the lion using a sword is similar to the story of David.
[edit] Kakar (Afghan)
Kakar Afghan was one of the grandsons of Qais Abdur Rashid. Kakar's father's name was Dani son of Ghourghusht, who was son of Qais in the Afghan appendix of tribes. According to Afghan and Muslim historians, Ghourghusht was alive in 388 hijri (by the Islamic calendar). Kakar is also called in some parts of Afghanistan Kakar-khel. In Herat, Kakar is locally called Kak. Historically, the tribe has been called Kak-kor (family of Kak). The tomb of Kakar or Kak is in front of Herat central Jamia Masjid's gate. Afghan historians say that Kakar was first buried in Kohistan, which is in Ghor province of Afghanistan, but Herat's ruler Sultan Ghyasudin Tahglok brought the body to be re-buried in a mosque there in the city. Muhammad of Ghor was also Kakar and belongs to the sub-tribe named Taghluk or Taghruq. Dani had four more sons named Panai, Babai, Naghar and Davi. Kakar had 19 real sons and six adopted sons - 24 sons altogether. The names of Kakar's eighteen biological sons are as follows:
- Taraghzai (Taragharai)
- Jadram
- Serad or Sherdad
- Zalghozi
- Musazai or Musakhel
- Younaskhel
- Samkhel
- Darpikhel or Arpikhel
- Jalalkhel
- Mukranikhel
- Rankhkhel
- abu Bakarzai(Santia)
- Sargarai
- Kapip
- Khatankhel
- Yaqubzai
- Osean
and adopted sons names are:
- Pindar or Beadar
- Churmaikhel
- Lanbar
- Farmalai
- Kwaano and Taran
Some well-known subtribes of Kakar are Sanzarkhel, Barakzai, Parizon, Abdullahzai, Khoidadzia (khudiadadzai), Jogizai,Meerdadzai, Abubakar-zai and much more. In every province of Afghanistan, large numbers of Kakar are living.
[edit] Kakar Arain
| “ | Kakar , an Arain clan (agricultural) found in Amritsar [1] | ” |
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
- Research and written by Ahmad Yar Khan Kakar original author of article (see wikipedia said article history) of Barshore, district Pishin
- History of Kakar (Gurmukhi), 1989, by Sardar J.S. Kakar
- History of Pashtoon (Persian), 1979, by Sardar Sher Muhammed Gandapur
- A history of Afghan (Persian), 1960, by Abdul Hai Habibi
- The Pathans (English), 1967, by Sir Olaf Caroe
- Pashtoon history (Pashto), 1965, by Syed Bahadur Shah Zafar Kakakhel
- Tarikh-i Khan Jahani wa Makhzan-i Afghani (Persian-Pashto), 1500-1600, by Khwaja Nimatullah Heravi and Hebat Khan Abubakarzai Kakar.
[edit] References
- ^ A glossary of the tribes and castes of the Punjab and North -West provinces , compiled by H A Rose , vol II Page page 438
