Ghoryakhel

The Ghoryakhel (Pashto: غورياخېل‎) or Ghoria Khel is Pashtun supertribe son of Kand son of Kharshbun son of Sarban, son of Qais Abdur Rashid , who lived in Qandahar and central of Afghanistan (Ghoristan) but settled mostly in Ghazni on the basin of Tarnak river and Nangarhar, Logar, Kabul, Kunar, Kunduz of Afghanistan and in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Peshawar in Pakistan between the 15th and 16th century CE. The largest tribe belonging to the Ghoryakhel confederacy is Mohmand while other tribes belonging to the confederacy include Daudzai, Mulagori, Khalil, Shilmani, Zeerani , Daulatyar tribe, Chamkani tribe, Halimzai, Zakhil or Azakhil , Hazarbuz and Oryakhel.^[1]

The legendary Pashto poet Rahman Baba also belonged to the Ghoryakhel subtribe of the Mohmand. Ghoryakhel and Khakhykhel are brothers son of Kand .

Kand, Zamand, and Kasi are brothers son of Kharshbun .

Hussain Bakhsh Kausar Ghoryakhel was a prominent leader of Abdul Ghaffar Khan's Khudai Khidmatgars (Red Shirts) and hailed from Peshawar. He was a preeminent linguist and philologist of the twentieth century in the greater Pashtun territories.He died in Peshawar in the 1990s.^[2]

See also

• Pashtun tribes
• Pashtun people
• Khalil (Pashtun tribe)
• Qais Abdur Rashid

References

1. Ibrahim Sheikh Ghauri شېخ ابراهيم غوري. Khyber.ORG.
2. Ghoriakhel. Khyber Tribe Listing. Accessed November 1, 2012.