The Badozai is a

Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ;), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are an Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghans until 1964 after the ...

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

, found generally in

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. It is currently located in Balochistan mainly. The Badozai Tribe has its roots linking it with the Arabs known Bidunes” those who travelled, places with their camels, originating from today’s Middle east Saudi Arabia.

History

The Badozai belong to a Pashtun tribe that originally migrated from

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centuries ago. 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 ( ; , ), also spelled as Baluchistan or Baluchestan, is a historical region in West and South Asia, located in the Iranian plateau's far southeast and bordering the Indian Plate and the Arabian Sea coastline. This arid region of de ...
, Muzaffargarh and
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.Edward Balfour
The cyclopædia of India and of eastern and southern Asia
B. Quaritch, 1885

Economic activity

The main economic sector the Badozai tribe belongs to is

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

References

Durrani Pashtun tribes {{Pakistan-ethno-stub