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inhabiting

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village

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villages of

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History

Traditionally

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tribes live according to a strong family system in which the family is named after the father. Balar Khel thus means the sons of Balar. Family groups prefer to live together and the area is named after their Khel. In the 16th century in the

tribe during the time of

Malik Ahmed Malik, Mallik, Melik, Malka, Malek, Maleek, Malick, Mallick, or Melekh ( phn, 𐤌𐤋𐤊; ar, ملك; he, מֶלֶךְ) is the Semitic term translating to "king", recorded in East Semitic and Arabic, and as mlk in Northwest Semitic durin ...

different ''Khels'' were divided by his deputy

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and settlements thus included representatives of all ''Khels''. The idea behind this division was to let all ''Khels'' have a share of all types of land. This led to the loss of brotherhood among members of each Khel and the development of rivalries on the basis of villages instead of ancestry.

References

{{Pashtun tribes Yusufzai Pashtun tribes