Hafiz Khel

Hafiz Khel is a Pashtun tribe and sub-tribe of Gandapur tribe. They are living in Kulachi for about 300 years. Most of them are now migrated to Dera Ismail Khan,Tank and Zhob Districts of North West Frontier Province and Baluchistan.

History

They are the Decendents of Hazrat Syed Karam Shah(recited The Holy Quran more than 100,000 times), a great Sufi Saint in the 17th Century A.D.His tomb is situated in Hafiz Khel's GraveYard.Tribe members living in Tank and Zhob speak Pashto. However, those Living in Dera Ismail Khan and Kulachi have not retained their ancestral language and mostly speak the Derawali form of Saraiki dialect which is influenced by Pashto and Hindko.Like other Pashtun tribes,they generally observe a pre-Islamic honor code formaly known as Pashtunwali.