Ahmadzai

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Ahmadzai is one of the largest tribes of Pashtuns.

Belonging to the Ghalzai or Ghaljai family of Pashtuns, the father of the tribe Ahmad Aba (father Ahmad) is buried in Paktika province in the southern part of Afghanistan.

Ahmadzai tribe originally sprung from the Junoobi province of the country, now divided in three provinces known as Paktya, Paktika and Khost. The tribe lives, apart from the three provinces, in Logar, Kabul, Maidan, Ghazni, Kapisa, Laghman, Nangarhar, Baghlan, Kunduz, Takhar and Balkh provinces.

A large part of the tribe lives in the south-eastern side of the Durnad line in Waziristan, Pakistan. In late March 2007 fighting between tribespeople and Uzbek militants in the restive South Waziristan tribal region escalated on the 21st, raising the total death toll to 110, government and security officials said. Most of the dead were of central Asian origin. Pakistan has cited the fighting as a success in its efforts to get ethnic Pashtun tribes to root out al-Qaida fighters hiding in the region. But experts say the bloodshed underscored the government's inability to police the region and could unleash a cycle of violence between warring factions.[1]

A number of Ahmadzai sub-tribes are Kuchi (nomads). The tabers are