Jabbar Khel

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The Jabbar Khel, sometimes spelled Jabar Khel, are a leading landowning clan of the Ahmadzai tribe and consist of more than fifteen hundred families.[1] The tribe is believed to have descended from an Ahmadzai leader named Jabbar.[2] They are believed to have been located primarily in the region of Qabr-i-Jabbar/Khak-i-Jabbar.[2]

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  1. ^ Kaplan, Robert (2001). Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Vintage Books, 147. ISBN 1400030250. 
  2. ^ a b Noelle, Christine (1997). State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost. Routledge, 196. ISBN 0700706291.