Jabbar Khel

Jabbar Khel

The Jabbar Khel, sometimes spelled Jabar Khel, are a leading landowning clan of the Ahmadzai tribe and consist of more than fifteen hundred families.cite book | title=Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan| last=Kaplan| first=Robert| date=2001| pages=147| publisher=Vintage Books| id=ISBN 1400030250] The tribe is believed to have descended from an Ahmadzai leader named Jabbar.cite book | title=State and Tribe in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir Dost| last=Noelle| first=Christine| date=1997| pages=196| publisher=Routledge| id=ISBN 0700706291] They are believed to have been located primarily in the region of Qabr-i-Jabbar/Khak-i-Jabbar.

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