Jabbarkhel

Jabbarkhel or Jabbar Khel, sometimes spelled Jabar Khel, are a leading landowning clan of the Ahmadzai tribe of Pashtun people and consist of more than fifteen hundred families.[1] The tribe is believed to have descended from an Ahmadzai leader named Jabbar.[2] They are believed to have been located primarily in the region of Qabr-i-Jabbar/Khaki Jabbar District.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Kaplan, Robert (2001). Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Vintage Books. p. 147. ISBN 1400030250.
  2. 1 2 Noelle, Christine (1997). State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost. Routledge. p. 196. ISBN 0700706291.


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