Aba Khel is a subtribe of the

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. Their settlements are located mainly in the

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province of

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, and include the villages of Zaida,

Kaddi Kaddi (کڈی) (also known as Kaday or کډے in Pashto) is a village in the Swabi District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The inhabitants belong to Aba Khel subtribe of Mandanr Yusufzai Pakhtuns who occupy Swabi and Mardan districts of Khyber-Pakht ...

, Hund, Shah Mansur, Khunda, Ambar,

Panjpir Panjpir (Pashto:پنج پیر) is a town and Union council of Swabi District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan that is surrounded by Shahmansoor, Kaddi, Thand Kohi, Bam Khel, Darra and Ismailabad.Panj peer means five Sufi Saints. ...

, Beka,

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, Kheshgi Nowshera Kalan (in the

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), and Ragastoon.

Lineage

Aba Khel are descendents of the

tribe. Mandanr had four sons, Mano, Hazar, Razar, and Mahmoud. Mano had two sons, Usman and Utman. Usman had two sons, Amanzai and Kamalzai. Utman had four sons, Akkazai, Sadozai, Alizai and Kannazai. The descendants of Utman's son Sadozai are called Sadu Zais who were further divided into five families including Aba Khel, Umar Khel, Khadu Khel, Mir Ahmad Khel and Behzad Khel. Descendants of the Aba Khel family then settled in the districts

, Pakistan.

Family tree

History

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are named after Yusaf who was the son of Manday along with Umar. Umar died early and left behind his son

who married the daughter of his uncle Yusaf. The descendants of both Yusaf and Mandanr are together called

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People

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, War Hero of the Afghan War of Independence and a founding father of

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EditorTimes (2020)
Nisar Muhammad of Village Zaida
' by Arif Hasan Khan Akhundzada
''"Nisar Mohammad’s official identity is that of a Pashtun of the Ayubkhel clan of the Abakhel Mandanr sub-section"''

References

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