Thanks for visiting Kakayzai.com ^[1] / Kakazai.com ^[1] / Kakezai.com ^[2].

My Kakay Zai / Kakazai Pathan background has always been a mystery, a matter of curiosity to me.

Since my childhood, my elders told me that we are Kakay Zai / Kakazai Pathans.

To me, It was kind of weird because

• We don’t speak any Pashto but Punjabi
• Some of us call ourselves “Malik” in Punjab

and

• Most of us don’t take Naswar either

In other words, I had almost none of those ‘traits’, which supposed to be associated with ‘conventional’ Pathans in Pakistan in general and subcontinent on the whole. To add to this irony, the street full of my relatives, which I grew up in, used to be called ‘Kucha-e Afghanan’ (Afghans’ place).

Nevertheless, my elders insisted that we are Kakay Zai / Kakazai AND Pathans.

I am sure there are plenty of Kakay Zai / Kakazai Pathans out there who are in my shoes.

So, Please make yourself home as here is a place for you to not only solve this mystery of our background and let the cat out of the sack of curiosity but also to interact with each other.

I seriously and sincerely hope that we will be able to learn from each other.

With your kind feedback and precious help, I intend to add more features to this web-site in coming days.

Looking forward to hearing from you…

I remain,

Yours sincerely,

Ali Khan
http://www.AliKhan.org ^[3]