Sources:

• “Tareekh-e-Kakazai” (a.k.a. “Hidayat Afghani - Tareekh-e-Kakazai Tarkani” (Originally Published May, 1933)
  

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• “Tazkara” by Khan Roshan Khan :: Kakazai / Kakayzai Pathan tribe is mentioned between Page 176 - 181 ::
  

  Read Page 180-181 in Urdu

  Read Page 178-179 in Urdu

  Read Page 176-177 in Urdu

• “A Dictionary of the Pathan Tribes of the North West Frontier of India” published by The General Staff Army Headquarter, Calcutta, India - (Originally Published 1910) :: Kakazai / Kakayzai Pathan Tribe is mentioned on Page 22 (under ‘K’ - Kakazai), Page 12 (under ‘D’ - Daulat Khel - A sub-division of Kakazai Pathans), Page 26 (under ‘K’ - Khulozai - A sub-division of Kakazai Pathans), Page 29 (under ‘M’ - Maghdud Khel, Mahmud Khel and Mahsud Khel - Sub-divisions of Kakazai Pathans), Page 47 (under ‘U’ - Umar Khel - A sub-division of Kakazai Pathans) and Page 50 (under ‘Y’ - Yusaf Khel - A sub-division of Kakazai Pathans) ::
  

  Page 22

  Page 12

  Page 29

  Page 30

  Page 46

• “Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India” Volume One published by Government Mono Type Press, Simla, India - (Originally Published 1907) :: Kakazai / Kakayzai Pathan Tribe is mentioned on Page 555 ::
  

  Read Page 555 from “Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India” - Published 1907 :: Courtesy: The British Library ::

• Eleven 300-400 years old documents stating Kakazai as an ethnicity - Page 107-121 from “Tareekh-e-Kakazai” (a.k.a. “Hidayat Afghani - Tareekh-e-Kakazai Tarkani” - Originally Published in 1933)
• :: Dara Kakazai (Valley of Watlai), Federally Administered Tribal Area in NWFP province, Pakistan ::
• Family Tree of Qais Abdul Rashid :: Spelled as Kaka Zai under the offsprings of Kharashboon (Khair ud Din) ::

In a way, I do find a connection between Mr. Majid Sheikh’s article in the context of what my elders have been insisting all along, history and traditions of Afghanistan. After all, Afghan/Pathans love horses and Afghanistan’s national sport is Buzkashi, a primeval form of polo.

Just for the reference, I would like to reiterate, as per my elders (late and alive), Kakazai/Kakayzai/Kakay Zai Afghan/Pathans came with the invading armies of Mehmood/Mahmud Ghaznavi (971 - 1030) .etc [2] to the subcontinent.

Now there are some Pashto-Speaking Afghan/Pathans out there who like to indulge themselves into the arrogance of being ‘Real’ Pathans and therefore out-casting all the non-Pashto speaking Afghan/Pathans as non-Pathans, just because they speak Pashto. In their mind, ONLY the Pashto-Speaking Afghan/Pathans can be ‘REAL’ Pathans, which doesn’t only go against the logic and common sense but also the ancient history of Afghanistan by itself where most of the Afghan/Pathans claim to be hailed from.

These naïve Pashto-Speaking ‘REAL’ Pathans don’t pay attention to the fact that there are plenty of Pashto-Speaking Punjabis, Hindkos and Sikh .etc living in the NWFP and even in Afghanistan and YET they are NOT Pathans just like the offspring of these Pashto-Speaking ‘Real’ Pathans, settled in the West or elsewhere, who don’t speak ANY Pashto at all.

In other words, speaking Pashto has NOTHING to do with being an Afghan/Pathan for the mere fact that one’s language can be changed by settling somewhere where that language is not spoken but being Afghan/Pathan, an ethnicity, cannot.

Mehmud Ghaznavi and Shahabuddin Ghauri were both Turkic and so other Afghan/Pathan conquerors.

Ironically, these Pashto-Speaking ‘Real’ Pathans love to own the tales of bravery of Mehmud Ghaznavi and Shahabuddin Ghauri .etc as their Afghan/Pathan heritage despite the fact that both, Mehmud Ghaznavi and Shahabuddin Ghauri, were Turkic. And yet they have got the audacity to deny the same rights to some of non-Pashto Speaking Afghan/Pathans.

Can these Pashto-Speaking ‘Real’ Pathans deny the contributions of Mehmud Ghaznavi and Shahabuddin Ghauri to Afghans/Pathans’ history?

If they do then they deny their own background and therefore the tales of their bravery, truthfulness .etc that Afghans/Pathans are famous for.

One needs to study the ancient history of Afghanistan, not only under the light of books written by foreign scholars and travelers but also by the native authors, to learn about the background of Kakazai/Kakayzai/Kakay Zai and other Afghans/Pathans.

And last but not the least, these so called Pashto-speaking ‘REAL’ Afghan/Pathans needs to snap out of their trance/ecstasy of arrogance of being “The Real” solely upon their ability to speak Pashto – specially - when some of them are still confused, to this day, about their own background. Before out-casting Kakazai/Kakay Zai/KakayZai Afghan/Pathans OR ANYBODY else as NON-PATHANS, they need to figure out who they really are. [3]

Notes:

[1]. “Lahore’s Kakkayzai ‘horse traders’ - by Majid Sheikh - http://www.dawn.com/2004/09/05/fea.htm#2
[2]. http://www.bookrags.com/biography-mahmud-of-ghazni/
[3]. “Who are the Pakhtuns?” - by Rahimullah Yusufzai -
http://www.peshawar1.com/htmls/rahimullah/rahim67.html

Related Link:

“Kakay Zai / Kakazai :: Pathans ::”
by Ali Khan
http://www.kakazai.com/2005/07/10/about/

Kakazai/Kakay Zai/Kakayzai is an Afghan/Pathan[3][4] Tribe which hailed from Laghman[5], Afghanistan. They came to subcontinent (today’s Pakistan, India and Bangladesh) with the Afghan invading armies like Mehmood/Mahmud Ghaznavi[6][7][8] and later on settled in various parts of subcontinent.

Famous Afghan/Pathan historian Khan Roshan Khan has provided some background of Kakazai/Kakezai/Kakay Zai/Kakayzai Afghan/Pathan tribe in his famous book “Tazkara.” (Pages 176 - 181)

Read Page 180-181 in Urdu

Read Page 178-179 in Urdu

Read Page 176-177 in Urdu

During independence of subcontinent, Kakazai/Kakay Zai/Kakayzai tribesmen/villagers from Gurdaspur, East Punjab (settled in twelve villages, Babal Chak, Faizullah Chak, Sut Kohiah/Satkoha, Wazir Chak .etc near Dahriwal,[9] who used to cultivate land, but also considerable number of their young men fought in two world wars) fought bravely to aggressors. Though, initially, they were informed that their area is going to be in Pakistan making them quite relaxed, but in August 1947, they learned that their area would be a part of India.[10] They were caught unprepared and had to face one of the biggest tragedies of the history.[11]

Today, the majority of Kakazai/Kakay Zai/Kakayzai reside in Pakistan and Afghanistan, in the areas of Lahore, Sialkot, Dera Ghazi Khan, Quetta, Karachi, Kashmir, Isa Khel, Musa Khel, Kakazai (Pishin, Bloachistan) .etc. Consequently, their spoken languages include but not limited to Pashto, Punjabi, Siriaki, Balochi .etc

Some Kakay Zai/Kakazai Pathans may also like to add “Malik” with their first or last name.

Famous Kakay Zai/Kakazai Pathans include Navab Bahadur Yar Jang and Abdullah Malik.

Other combination of spellings include:

• Kakezai
• Kakayzai
• Kakazai
• Kakay Zai
• Kaka Zai

Notes:

[1]. http://www.khyber.org/culture/names/boynames.shtml
[2]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yousafzai
[3]. http://www.afghanan.net/pashto/pashtunwali/retrospect.htm
[4]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pashtun
[5]. http://www.answers.com/topic/laghman-province
[6]. http://www.cyberistan.org/misub28294445.pdf
[7]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmud_Ghaznavi
[8]. http://www.punjabonline.com/servlet/library.history?Action=History
[9]. http://www.mypind.com/vlgurd.htm
[10]. http://www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2002_01-03/
chester_partition/chester_partition.html
[11]. http://zararshaheedtrust.org/incident/inside/zarar.html

Sources:

Various

Related Link:

“Non-Pashto Speaking Kakazai/Kakay Zai Afghan/Pathans and Pashto-Speaking ‘Real’ Afghan/Pathans”
by Ali Khan
http://www.kakazai.com/2005/07/22/non-pashto-speaking-aghanpathans-
aghanpathans-and-pashto-speaking-real-afghanpathans/

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by Ali Khan
http://www.AliKhan.org