Kakar
The Kakar (Pashto: کاکړ) is a Gharghashti Pashtun tribe, based mostly in the Balochistan Province of Pakistan, and Loy Kandahar in Afghanistan.
Legendary origin
Kakars are sons of Gharghashti who was the son of Qais Abdul Rashid. In Herat, the Kakar are locally called Kak. Historically, the tribe has been called Kak-kor (lit. family of Kak). The tomb of Kakar (or Kak) is in front of Herat central Jamia Masjid's gate. Some historians argue that Kakar was first buried in Kohistan, but Ghiyath al-Din Ghori brought the body to be re-buried in a mosque in the city of Herat.
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History
Until the fifteenth century, Kakars along with Tajiks, Baloch and Farsiwans mainly inhibited Qandahar region, and were considered distinct from Pashtuns. Later, because of the predominant position of Abdali and Ghilzai Pashtuns in Qandahar region during and around fourteenth century, Tajiks, Hazaras, Kakars and Baloch lost their previous possessions and were forced to pay tax or revenue to their Pashtun warlords from either Abdali or Ghilzai tribal divisions. In these areas, the locals were not displaced yet subjugated. They were reduced to the status of peasant "riay'at" or tenants "himsaya". Eventually, some of these indigenous people assimilated and became part of dominant Pashtun confederacy, while others moved further west or north Afghanistan.[1][2][3][4]
Prior to the partition of India, Hindu members of the Kakar tribe, known as Sheen Khalai, resided in the Quetta, Loralai and Maikhter regions of the British Indian province of Baluchistan now Pakistan.[5] After 1947, they fled to Unniara, Rajasthan, India.[5]
Notable people
Sher Shah Suri, Ruler of the Suri empire
- Rozi Khan Kakar, pakistani senator from Quetta
- Abdul Wadood, General Abdul Wadood Kakar from Qarabagh, Kabul
- Usman Kakar, politician and senator from Muslim Bagh
- Arfa Siddiq Kakar, politician and Pashtun human rights activist from Muslim Bagh
- Nashenas, Sadiq Fitrat Habibi Nashenas an Afghan Singer
- Faizullah Kakar, Afghan epidemiologist and public leader
- Sanzar Kakar, Afghan business leader
- Ibrahim Khan Kakar, an Officer in Mughal Army who rose to be Governor. Buried in Maner Choti Dargah.
- Kader Khan, Indian Actor
- Dadullah Taliban senior commander
- Muhammad Sarwar Khan Kakar, was a Pakistani Senator
- Mohammad Rabbani, Prime Minister of Afghanistan
- Abdul Waheed Kakar, Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army (1993-1996)
- Abdur Rab Nishtar, Muslim League member, Pakistani movement activist and politician.
- Safwat Ghayur, commandant of Pakistan's Frontier Constabulary
- Mullah Bakht alias Mansoor Dadullah, Senior Taliban Commander
- Owais Ahmed Ghani, Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (N-W.F.P.), Governor Balochistan, Federal Minister, Provincial Minister (N-W.F.P), PTI (Founding member)
- Malik Haji ahmed shah Kakar Hussainr, Pakistan,Tribal chief of Kakar Hussainr cost
- Palay Khan (Palay Shah), anti-Raj fighter
- Nawab Muhammad Ayaz Khan Jogezai, Pakistan,Politician
- Malik Abdullah Jan Kakar Hussainr, Pakistan,Tribal leader
Further reading
- Kakar tribe
- History of Pashtoons by Sardar Sher Muhammed Gandapur (in Persian)
- A History of Afghan, 1960, by Abdul-Hai Habibi (in Persian)
- The Pathans, 1967, by Sir Olaf Caroe
- Tarikh-i Khan Jahani wa Makhzan-i Afghani, 1500–1600, by Khwaja Nimatullah Heravi and Hebat Khan Abubakarzai Kakar.(in Pashto and Persian)
- Encyclopædia Britannica. 15 (11th ed.). 1911. .
References
- name=DostMuhammad>Christine Noelle. State and Tribe in Nineteenth-century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost Muhammad Khan (1826–1863). Psychology Press. p. 161.
- Dupree 1980: 377-378
- Durand 1879: 83-84
- Norris 1967: 295
- Haider, Suhasini (3 February 2018). "Tattooed 'blue-skinned' Hindu Pushtuns look back at their roots". The Hindu. Retrieved 24 March 2018.