Babar (Pashtun tribe)

Bāborī
بابر
LocationAfghanistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Nowshera) and Balochistan
Parent tribeSarbani
LanguagePashto

Babar or Bāborī are a tribe of Pashtuns residing in Afghanistan as well as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan in Pakistan.[1]

The Babar tribe residing east of the Takht-e-Sulaiman were exempt from paying tax during the reign of Timur Shah Durrani and Shah Zaman.[2]

Notable people

References

  1. ^ Encyclopædia Iranica BĀBORĪ (Dec 1988, updated 2011)
  2. ^ Christine Noelle (2012) State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: Reign of Amir Dost Mohammad Khan
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