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Read Family Tree of Kakazai Pathan Tribe on Page 555 from "Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India" - Published 1907 :: Courtesy: The British Library ::
Daulat Khel, Maghdud Khel, Mahsud Khel and Mahmud Khel, Sub-divisions of Kakazai Pathan Tribe :: Courtesy: The British Library ::

The Kakazai (see spelling variants below) are a Pashtun (aka Pathan) tribe originally from the Laghman province of Afghanistan.

They came to South Asia during Afghan invasions such as those of Mahmud of Ghazni, settling in various regions.

A major Kakazai group from Gurdaspur, East Punjab settled in twelve villages, including Babal Chak, Faizullah Chak, Sut Kohiah (Satkoha), and Wazir Chak, near Dhariwal [1]. At the partition of India in August 1947, having been initially told they (being Muslim) would be in Pakistan, they were caught up in the ensuing violence and the survivors displaced when their area became part of India.

Today, the majority of the Kakazai reside in Pakistan and Afghanistan, in the areas of Dara Kakazai (Valley of Watlai), Bajaur Agency, Lahore, Sialkot, Dera Ghazi Khan, Quetta, Karachi, Kashmir, Jehlum, Bhalwal, Sargodha, Chakwal, Isa Khel, Musa Khel, and Kakazai (Pishin, Baluchistan). Consequently, they do not exclusively speak Pashto, but may speak other languages indigenous to Pakistan such as Punjabi, Siraiki, and Balochi.

"Malik" is a common given name or surname among Kakazai Pashtuns.

Notable Kakazai Pashtuns include Nawab Bahadur Yar Jang, Abdullah Malik and the historian Khan Roshan Khan.

The name "Kakazai" means "offspring/children/sons of little/younger boy" (in Pashto, Kakay or Kaka = younger/little boy, Zai = offspring/children/sons of, a root also used in Yousafzai). Spelling variants include: Kakezai, Kakay Zai, Kakayzai, Kakeyzai, Kaka Zai and Kakkayzai.

Sub-divisions of Kakazai Pashtun Tribe

References

  • "A Dictionary of the Pathan Tribes of the North West Frontier of India" published by The General Staff Army Headquarter, Calcutta, India - (Originally Published 1910) :: Kakazai / Kakayzai Pathan Tribe is mentioned on Page 22 (under ‘K’ - Kakazai), Page 12 (under ‘D’ - Daulat Khel - A sub-division of Kakazai Pathans), Page 26 (under 'K' - Khulozai - A sub-division of Kakazai Pathans), Page 29 (under ‘M’ - Maghdud Khel, Mahsud Khel and Mahmud Khel - sub-divisions of Kakazai Pathans), Page 47 (under 'U' - Umar Khel - A sub-division of Kakazai Pathans) and Page 50 (under 'Y' - Yusaf Khel - A sub-division of Kakazai Pathans) ::
  • "Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India" Volume One published by Government Mono Type Press, Simla, India - (Originally Published 1907) :: Kakazai / Kakayzai Pathan Tribe is mentioned between Page 515 - 555 - You can read these volumes online, thanks to Internet Archives though their market value is around $11000 ::
  • "Tazkara" (also called "Tazkira-e-pathan"), Khan Roshan Khan, pp 176-181 (in Urdu).


Famous Kakazai of Pakistan

  • Ghulam Mohammad (Governor General)
  • Abdul Qadir (Governor State Bank, Finance Minister)
  • Prof. Dr. Muhammad Yaqub Khan (Pioneer radiologist who opened first radiology department in country, Mayo Hospital, Lahore)
  • AVM Anwar Mehmood Khan [EX DG CAA]
  • Dr. Nizam Uddin (1876 - 1951, Lt.Dr. British India Army, Chief Medical Officer University of Peshawer)
  • Masood Nabi Noor (Home Secretary, West Pakistan)
  • General Khalid Mehmood Arif (VCOAS)
  • Mr. Rahat Nasim Malik (Regional Commissioner Income Tax (Central Region)) - Retd.
  • Mr. Muhammad Javed Khan (Currently Executive Director, State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan. Director PICIC, Director Alpha Insurance Co. Ltd., Formerly Member / Additional Secretary Wafaqi Mohtasib Secretarial and Commissioner of Income Tax)
  • Dr. Nazir Ahmed (First head of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission)
  • Mr. Zahoor Uddin Malik (Architect & Civil Engineer from Queen University Belfast in 1932, Founder Member PECHS, Garison Engineer British Army WW2)
  • Mr. Munir Ahmed Khan (Chairman Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, 1972-1991)
  • Col. Mujeeb-Ul-Haq (AFIC , Pioneer Cardiologist)
  • Dr. Ishfaq Ahmad (Chairman Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, 1991-2001)
  • Lt. Gen. Saeed Qadir
  • Lt. Gen. Ahmad Shamim Khan (Commander 5 Corp)
  • Khan Inamullah Khan Vice Chancellor (UET - Lahore)
  • Maj. Gen. I. D. Hasan (Medicine)
  • AVM. Javed Hayat Malik (Air Force)
  • Rear Admiral Akbar Hussain (Navy)
  • Col. N. D. Hasan (Principal Cadet College Hasanabdal, Aithcheson College)
  • Sheikh Khurshid Ahmad (Federal Law Minister, Ayub Khan Cabinet)
  • Vice Chancellor Ahmad Hassan (UET - Lahore)
  • Wg. Cdr. Amanullah Khan (Ph.D. Psychologist as well Pakistan's Only/First Ph.D. Speech-Language Pathologist)
  • Barristar Ijaz Hussain Batalvi (Law)[2]
  • Dr. Pervez Hassan (Law)
  • Sheikh Abdul Rauf (Auditor-General of Pakistan, Finance Secretary)
  • Shaikh Mohammad Nissar (Founding Member of Pakistan Cricket Board, First Pakistani cricketer, Pro-Pakistan leader)
  • Mr. Shahid K. Haq (MD PARCO & TOTAL)
  • Dr. Shahid Masood (TV Personality/Journalist, Head Of ARY One World Channel, Currently with GEO TV and anchorman of "Meray Mutabiq")
  • Mr Asif Aziz Malik (Co-Founder of Islam Channel, Senior Partner at Vi Consulting);
  • Justice (Retd.)Sardar Muhammad Iqbal Khan, First Federal Ombudsman of Pakistan; (formerly, Chief Justice of Lahore High Court); also, first (incumbent) Professor Emeritus of Law (Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan).
  • Dr. Dildar Rabbani Malik (Professor of international law, IMCS, Geneva)
  • Ms. Shukria Khanum (First Woman Pilot given CPL in 1961)
  • Mr. Noor-ul-hassan (Famous Tv Host)
  • Mr. Muhammed Aslam Khan (Vice Chancellor , Punjab University Lahore)
  • Mr. Muhammed Ikram (Film Producer)
  • Khan Safdar Ali Khan (First General Secretary Red Cross Pakistan 1948-1965)
  • Mr. Sabooh Uddin (CEO WMS Media UK, Former Head of Business Islam Channel & former head of Sales & Marketing ARY UK)
  • Dr. Intisar-ul-Haq (Rtd. Chairman Department of Philosophy Peshawar University)
  • Mr. Abdul Islam (Prominent businessman)
  • Mr. Saleem Raza (Head of Visa Drop Box - Gerry's/FedEx - Pakistan)
  • Dr. Imran Hassan (Medicine) - Husband of Asma Hassan and Father of Mustafa Ahmed Hassan
  • Saheem Shahbaz (Shell Gas Pakistan)
  • Abdul Rahman Malik (co-founder, in 1942, of the first Muslim owned bank, Australasia Bank, in the present day Pakistan)
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