Zazi

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The Zazi (also spelled Dzadzi, pronounced as IPA: [dzadzi]) are a Pashtun tribe. Zazi is the plural of Zazai, pronounced [dzadzai]. Zazi is a sub-tribe of Khugyani which falls under the Karlanri tribe of the Pashtuns or the Afghan tribes (Zazi bin Khugyani bin Kuki bin Karlanri). They basically live in the Paktia and Khost provinces of Afghanistan but they have big population in Kabul city and also in Baghlan province of Afghanistan. Zazi also reside in the Kurram Agency of North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Former Minister of Mines & Industries of Afghanistan Engineer Joma Mohammad Mohamadi was a Zazai from Paktia. Mr. Mohamadi was from Shah Mahmud kalai of Hashim Khail district of Zazi, Paktia. Mr. Mohamadi was killed in a plane crash in Pakistan on 24 February 2003. Mohammadi was in Pakistan for meetings regarding the proposed pipeline project, which is known both as the trans-Afghan pipeline project and the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan Natural-Gas Pipeline Project (TAP). Mines and Industry Minister Mohammadi was among eight passengers who died on 24 February when the light aircraft they were traveling in crashed into the Arabian Sea shortly after taking off from the Pakistani port city of Karachi, Pakistan. The Transitional Administration issued a statement on 24 February calling the death of Mohammadi an "irreparable loss," Afghanistan Television reported the same day. Mohammadi, who worked for the World Bank prior to returning to Afghanistan to join the Transitional Administration, was the only member of the current Afghan cabinet who served in pre-communist (1978) Afghan governments. He served as minister of water and power in the government of President Mohammad Daud in 1977-78 and was imprisoned by the communists after they took power in a coup in 1978.

Another famous figure from Zazi district of Paktia province is Dr. Nabi Misdaq who is the founder of BBC Pashto service. Dr. Misdaq says, "I was born (1944) in the Zazi district of Paktia province, bordering Kurram Agency. My father and grandfather were the Malik of our tribe, (the Hashem Khail of Zazi). I was considered a bright student as I completed the first two years of schooling in six months and was promoted to the third grade. I would most often grab first position in my class. When the Pashto Medium School (Rahman Baba Laisa) was opened in Kabul, the prize for graduating with highest marks was a scholarship to a European country and in my case I won that scholarship to study in England from where I have received several degrees including a B.Sc from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Sussex University in social anthropology".

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