The Wazirs or Waziris ( ps, وزير) are a
Karlani 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 r ...
tribe found mainly in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region of North waziristan, South Waziristan and Bannu
Ahmadzai Wazir (Domel) and Utmanzai wazir (Baka Khel and Jani Khel) The
Utmanzai are settled in the
North Waziristan Agency
North Waziristan District ( ps, شمالي وزیرستان ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is the northern part of Waziristan, a mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, bordering Afghanist ...
and the
Ahmadzai are in the
South Waziristan Agency and Bannu domel.
Those subgroups are in turn divided further, for example into Utmanzai tribes such as the Baka Khel and Jani Khel. The Wazirs speak the
Waziristani dialect of
Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official langua ...
.
The common ancestor of the Ahmadzai and Utmanzai is believed by them to be the eponymous Wazir, who is also ancestor to the
Mehsud tribe that has since taken a distinct and divergent path. Through Wazir, the tribes trace their origins to
Karlani and thence to the founder of the Pashtun lineage,
Qais Abdur Rashid. Some western
ethnologists consider them of being mix of
Arachosia
Arachosia () is the Hellenized name of an ancient satrapy situated in the eastern parts of the Achaemenid empire. It was centred around the valley of the Arghandab River in modern-day southern Afghanistan, and extended as far east as the In ...
n or
Tatar
The Tatars ()[Tatar]
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different ethnicity.
Although the Utmanzai and Mehsud tribes have a traditional rivalry and live in geographically distinct regions,
the Ahmadzai and Mehsud communities co-exist peacefully and many head men are connected by marriage.
Notable members
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Maulana Noor Muhammad
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Haji Mirzali Khan Wazir
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Shah Muhammad Khan
Shah Muhammad Khan is Pakistani politician. He belong to Narmi Khel tribe of Baka Khel - a sub group of Utmanzai Wazir, Bannu. He is member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
Political career
Shah Muhammad won the PK-89 Bannu-III provincial assemb ...
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Ali Wazir
Muhammad Ali Wazir (Pashto/Urdu: ) is a Pakistani Pashtun politician who is the co-founder of a human rights movement, Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM). He has been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan since August 2018. During his studen ...
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Arif Wazir
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Muolana shakirullah sahib
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Zartaj Gul
Zartaj Gul (Pashto, ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who served as Minister of State for Climate Change, in Imran Khan ministry between 5 October 2018 and 10 April 2022 after Imran Khan was ousted by No-confidence motion against Imran Khan. She ...
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Muhammad Iqbal Wazir
Muhammad Iqbal Wazir is a Pakistani politician who is member-elect of the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Political career
Wazir contested 2019 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial election on 20 July 2019 from constituency PK-111 (North Wa ...
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Ayesha Gulalai Wazir
Ayesha Gulalai Wazir ( ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who was a former Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 2013 to May 2018.
Early life and education
Ayesha Gulalai was born in Bannu domel and received her master's degree from t ...
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Maria Toorpakai Wazir
Maria Toorpakai Wazir ( ps, ; ur, ; born November 22, 1990 in South Waziristan, FATA) is a professional Pakistani squash player. She dressed like a boy for the first 16 years of her life in order to participate in competitive sports as a Mus ...
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Mir Kalam Wazir
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Mohammad Wasim
References
Further reading
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{{Pashtun tribes
Karlani Pashtun tribes