Bajaur

The Kakazai (Pashto: کاکازي / ککےزي / ککازي‎, Urdu, Persian: کاکازَئی / کَکےزَئی / کَکازَئی‎), also known as Loi or Loye Mamund (Pashto: لوی ماموند‎; Urdu: لو ئے / لوئی مَاموند‎), a division of the Mamund clan, are part of the larger Tarkani (ترکاڼي) tribe who are primarily settled in Bajaur Agency, Pakistan but originally hailed from the Laghman province of Afghanistan. However, it has grown and scattered around to such an extent that it is recognized as a tribe of its own.

Bajaur (باجوڑ / بجوڑ) – Kakazai (Loi Mamund) Pashtuns’ Ancestral Land in Pakistan

Maps – Tarkalanri in Tribal Locations of the Pathans – The Pathans 550 BC-AD 1957 – by Olaf Caroe – Published 1958

Maps – Mamunds in Utman Khel and Mohmand Counties Map – From the Black Mountain to Waziristan – by Colonel H. C. Wylly – Published in 1912

Maps – Swat Buner and Bajaur – From the Black Mountain to Waziristan – by Colonel H. C. Wylly – Published in 1912

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Laghman (لغمان), Afghanistan – That’s where the Kakazai (Loi Mamund) Pashtuns originally hailed from

مجھے اپنے نام کے ساتھ ترکلانی، ماموند، کاکازئی، لوئی ماموند یا اپنی خیل کے نام میں سے کیا استعمال کرنا چاہیے؟

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