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The Ghoryakhel (Pashto: غورياخېل‎) is Pashtun supertribe son of Kand son of Kharshbun son of Sarban, son of Qais Abdur Rashid, who lived in Qandahar and central of Afghanistan Province Ghoristan but settled mostly in Ghazni on the basin of Tarnak River and Nangarhar, Logar, Kabul, Kunar, Kunduz of Afghanistan and also in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Peshawar in Pakistan between the 15th and 16th century CE. The largest tribe belonging to the Ghoryakhel confederacy is Mohmand while other tribes belonging to the confederacy include Daudzai, Mulagori, Khalil, Shilmani, Zeerani, Daulatyar tribe, Chamkani tribe, Halimzai, Zakhil or Zakhilwal, Hazarbuz. The legendary Pashto Poet Rahman Baba also belonged to Mohmand subtribe of the Ghoryakhel.


According to Pata Khazana Pashtun History Book that Kharshbun and Sharkhbun are brothers. Kharshbun had three sons Kand, Zamand, Kasi and Sharkhbun had six sons Urmar, Babar, Baraich, Miana, Tareen, Sheerani. Kand had two sons Ghoryakhel and Khakhykhel, Zamand had five sons Muhammadzai and Kheshgi are more popular and Kasi had eleven sons Shinwari and Zhamaryani are more popular.

Ghoryakhel had four sons Daulatyar, Khalil, Chamkani, Zeerani and Daulatyar had two sons Mohmand, Daudzai. Khakhykhel had three sons Tarak, Mak, Mand Tarak popular with Tarkalani, Mak popular with Gigyani tribe, and Mand had two sons (Yousaf, Umer) Yousaf popular with Yousafzai and Umer popular with Mandanr.

Hussain Bakhsh Kausar Ghoryakhel was a prominent leader of Abdul Ghaffar Khan's Khudai Khidmatgars (Red Shirts) and hailed from Peshawar. He was a preeminent linguist and philologist of the twentieth century in the greater Pashtun territories.He died in Peshawar in the 1990s.

Ghoryakhel tribes
  • Daulatyar
  • Mohmand
  • Zeerani
  • Chamkani
  • Khalil
  • Daudzai
  • Zakhil or Zakhilwal
  • Mulagori
  • Shilmani
  • Halimzai
  • Hazarbuz
  • References

    Ghoryakhel Wikipedia