kakar tribe

History of the Kakar tribe of Pashtuns

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(Excerpt from “Afghanistan and its inhabitants”, pages-148 to 151, English translation of Hayat-i-Afghani by Muhammad Hayat Khan, published in 1860) The  Kakar tribe, strictly so called , consisting of twenty main divisions and innumerable sub-divisions , and numbering probably 5 lakhs in all (though the number has been computed at 9, 12 , and even 18 … Read more

When Kakar Pashtuns wiped out the entire Baloch army of Mir Naseer Khan of Kalat

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In the 18th century, a chieftain of the Kakar Pashtuns managed to annihilate the entire Baloch army of Mir Naseer Khan of Kalat in about 1867. This catastrophic defeat of the Baloch army occurred in the Dozakh Tangi of present-day Ziarat district, Balochistan. The scale of this Baloch defeat bears striking resemblance to the catastrophic … Read more