Musakhel (Pashtun tribe)

The Musa Khel, or Moosa Khel, is a Pashtun tribe of Gharghasht origin. According to Horace Arthur Rose and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, they are part of the greater Kakar tribe.[1][2] The tribe originates from Ghazni province in Afghanistan and resides in the tribal range of Musakhel and Batagram District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Moosa Khel has the lowest literacy rate in Pakistan—10.37%—and is also a sub-tribe to Babozai, which is part of the major Pashtun tribe.

References

  1. ↑ Rose, Harold Arthur (1911). Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province (Facsimile edition 2006 ed.). Asian Educational Services, India. p. 438. ISBN 978-8120605053.
  2. ↑ Wikisource Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Musa Khel". Encyclopædia Britannica. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 43.
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