The Badozai are a

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 The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...

, found generally in

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British descriptions

In the 1885 ''The cyclopædia of India and of eastern and southern Asia'', the author cited one "MacGregor", describing the Badozai:

...a tribe inhabiting the Past-i-Koh, to the west of Sib, in the Kohistan of
Baluchistan Balochistan ( ; bal, بلۏچستان; also romanised as Baluchistan and Baluchestan) is a historical region in Western Asia, Western and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian S ...
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Muzaffargarh Muzaffargarh (Urdu and pa, , , Fort of Muzaffar) is a city in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. Located on the bank of the Chenab River, it is the capital of the district with the same name. It is the 39th largest city of Pakistan by populatio ...
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multan Multan (; ) is a city in Punjab, Pakistan, on the bank of the Chenab River. Multan is Pakistan's seventh largest city as per the 2017 census, and the major cultural, religious and economic centre of southern Punjab. Multan is one of the ol ...
.Edward Balfour
The cyclopædia of India and of eastern and southern Asia
B. Quaritch, 1885

Badozai belong to Pashtun tribe originally migrated from Kandahar Afghanistan centuries ago, majority can be found in Multan, Pakistan. Historically the Badozai Tribe have passionately fought for a long time alongside British against the ex-ruler of Punjab Maharaja

Ranjit Singh Ranjit Singh (13 November 1780 – 27 June 1839), popularly known as Sher-e-Punjab or "Lion of Punjab", was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, which ruled the northwest Indian subcontinent in the early half of the 19th century. He ...

. The main sectors the Badozai tribe belong to are agriculture mainly owning Mango orchard farms in Multan. The land which is associated with mango orchards is located in Lutfabad in Multan. Having produced one of the very pristine Mangoes, they also export the mangoes to the foreign lands such as United Kingdom.

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Durrani Pashtun tribes {{pakistan-stub