1 BILOCH, PATHAN AND ALLIED RACES. 83
2 Khel who bold the Chanutra valley in the centre of the Tcri tract. Arnoug the Bulaqi the
3 most important clan is the S([ghri, with its practically independent Bangi Khel sept. These
4 hold the right bank of the Indus above Kalabagh, while the Saghri, with the Babar family of the
5 Bangi Khel, also occupy the cis-Indus possessions of the tribe. Most of the Khatak in Yusufzai
6 are aUo BuUq. The Kaka Khel section of the Khatak are descended from the famjns saint
7 Shekh Rahiui Kar, and are consequently venerated by all northern Puthans. The Khatak area
8 fine manly race, and differ from all other Pathaiu in features, general appaai'ance, and many of
9 their customs. They are the northernmost of all the Pathans settledoa our frontier who speak
10 the soft or western dialect of of Pashto. They are of a warlike nature and have been for centuries
11 at feud with all their neighbours and with one another. They are active, industriou?, and " a
12 most favourable specimen of Patli4n," and are good cultivators, though their country is stony
13 and unfertile. They arc also great carriers and traders, and especially holi all the salt trade wi th
14 Swat and Buner iu their hands. They are all Sunnis. The Marwat, the hereditary enemy of the
15 Khatak, says : " Friendship is good with any one but a Khatak : may the devil take a Khatak "
16 and " A Khatak is a hen. If you seize hira slowly he sits domi ; and if suddenly he clucks."
17 Another proverb rmis thus : '■ Though the Khatak is a good horseman, yet he is a man of but
18 one charge. "
19 The Bangash. —The early history of the Bangash has been narrated above. Since tUay
20 settled down in their KnliAt possessions no event of importance has marked their history. They
21 claim descent from KhalM-ibn-Walid, Mahomet's apostle to the Afghans of Ghor,' and himself
22 of the original stock from which they sprang ; but they arc Pathans " as regards character, cus-
23 toms crimes, and vices." Their ancestor had two sons GAr and Samil, who, on account of the
24 bitter enmity that existed between them, were nicknamed Bunkasli or root destroyers. These
25 sons have given their names to the two great political factions into which not only the Bangash
26 themselves', but their Afri'di, Oiak/.ai, Khatak, Tiiri, Zaimusht, and other neighbours of the
27 [P. 212] Karl^nvi branch are divideil, though tlie division has of late lost most of its importance.^ The
28 Garl are divided inVo Mfranzai and liaizai clans. The Baizai hold the valley of Kohat proper -.
29 the iluanzai lie to the w?st of them in tlie valley to which they have given their name; while
30 the SamiUai occupy the northern portion of Kohat and hold Shalozan at the foot of the Orakzai
31 bills, where they arc independent, or live in Paiwar and Kurram under the protection of the Tiiri.
32 The Bangash N'awibs of Furrukhabfid belong to this tribe.
33 Border Tribes. — The tribes on the Kohat border, beginning from the south, are the Darvesh
34 Khel Wazi'ri, the Zaimusht, the Orakzai, and the Afn'di. The Wazfri have already been decribed
35 in sect ion 405. The Zaimusht are a tribe of Spin Tarin Afghins who inhabit the hills between
36 the Kurram and the Orkzai boiikr un the north-west frontier of Kohat, They belong to the
37 Samil faction. The early history of the Orakzai has been given in section 4C6. With them arc
38 assjciated the Alikhel, llishti, the Sliekhan, and some of the Malla Khel, all of whom are now
39 classed as Orakzai of the Hamsayah clan, though, as the name implies, distinct by descent. The
40 Orakzai hold the lower south-eastern spurs of th^ Sated Koh and the greater part of Tirah. Tiiey
41 are divided into live great clans, the Allezai, Massczai, Daultzai, Ismailzai, and La=hkarzai, of
42 which the Daulatzai and Ma=sozai are the most numerous. The Muhammad Khel is the largest
43 sept of the Daulatzai, and, alone of the Orakzai, belongs to the Shi'ah sect. They are a fine manly
44 tribe but exceedingly turbulent. They are divided between the Sami'l and Gar factions. There
45 are a considtrable number of Orakzai tenants scattered about the Kohat District. The present
46 rulers of Bhopal belong to this tribe. The Afruli will be described among the border tribes of
47 Peshawar.
48 408. The Pathan tribes of Peshawar.— The Pathans of Peshawar belong,
49 with the exception of the Khatak described above, almost wholly to the
50 Afghans proper, descendants of Sarban ; and among iheni to the line of
51 Karshabun or the representatives of the ancient Gandhari, as distinguished
52 from the true Afghans of Jewish origin who trace their descent from
53 Sharkhabuu. I have already told, in section 395, how dui-ing the oth or 6th
54 oentnry a Gandhari colony emigrated to Kandhar, and there were joined and
55 1 Dr. Bellew thinks that tbcy and the Urkzai are perhaps both of Scytnian origin, and
56 belonged to the group of Turk tribes, among whom he includes all the Karlauri, or, as he calls
57 them, Ti.rklanri, who came iu with the invasion of Sabnktagiu iu the 10th and Taimur in the 16th
58 century of our era.
59 = Dr. Bellew is of opinion that these names denote respectively the Magian and Buddhist
60 religions of their ancestors. The present division ot the tribes is given as follows by Major James:
61 6'o'miJ. -Halt tne Orakzai, half the Bangash, the Mohmand, and the Malikdi'u Khel, Sepab, KaBr,
62 Zakha Khel, Aka Khel, and Adam Khel clans of Afridi. Oar. — Half the Orakza', half the
63 Bangash, the Khalil, and the Kiiki Khel and CJambar Khel clans of Afri'di. The feud between
64 the two tactions is still very strong and bitter, and is supplemented by the sec'arisn animosity
65 between Sbiah and Sanni.