Ghoryakhel

The Ghoryakhel (Pashto: غورياخېل‎) is Pashtun supertribe son of Kand son of Kharshbun son of Sarban, son of Qais Abdur Rashid, who lived in Ghwara Marghay Arghistan Qandahar but mostly settled in Ghazni on the basin of Tarnak River and Nangarhar, Logar, Kabul, Kunar, Kunduz of Afghanistan.

This tribe also has been living in Pakistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar, Charsada, Mardan, Nowshehra, Khyber, Kuram, Mohmand, Malakand, Swat Districts and settled between 15th and 16th century. The largest tribe belonging to the Ghoryakhel confederacy is Mohmand and second largest his brother Daudzai, son of Daulatyar while other tribes belonging to the confederacy include, Mulagori, Shilmani, Halimzai, Zakhil known by Zakhilwal, Tarakzai, Khawezai.[1] Hazarbuz.The legendary Pashto Poet Rahman Baba also belonged to Mohmand tribe of Ghoryakhel.

According to Pata Khazana Pashtun History Book written by Abdulhai Habibi that Kharshbun and Sharkhbun are brothers. Kharshbun had three sons Kand, Zamand, Kasi and Sharkhbun had six sons Urmar, Babar, Baraich, Miana, Tareen, Sheerani. Kand had two sons Ghoryakhel and Khakhykhel. Zamand had five sons Muhammadzai and Kheshgi are more popular. Kasi had eleven sons Shinwari and Zhamaryani are more popular.

Ghoryakhel had four sons 1st son Khalil, 2nd son Daulatyar, 3rd Zeerani, 4th Chamkani is the youngest son. Many historian mention in different Pashto and Dari books about Zeerani Pashtun tribe settled in Nangarhar Province, Laghman Province, Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan and majority people speak Dari and Pashto languages because of close relation and cross marriages with Tajiks. Daulatyar had two sons Mohmand, Daudzai, and other tribes like Mulagori, Shilmani, Halimzai, Zakhil known by Zakhilwal, Tarakzai, Khawezai, Hazarbuz are sub - section of Mohmand tribe.[2]

Hussain Bakhsh Kausar Ghoryakhel was a prominent leader of Abdul Ghaffar Khan Khudai Khidmatgars hailed from Peshawar. He was a preeminent linguist and philologist of the 20th century in the greater Pashtun territories. He died in Peshawar in the 1990s.[3]

Ghoryakhel had one brother Khakhykhel and he had three sons Tarak, Mak, Mand. Tarak popular as aTarkalani, Mak popular with Gigyani tribe, and Mand had two sons Yousaf and Umer later Yousaf known by Yousafzai and Umer known by Mandanr.

According to Sir Olaf Caroe mentioned in his book (The Pathans), that the Masudi are the most powerful in non Afghan tribe, and the Ghoryakhel are the most powerful in Afghan tribes. Ghoryakhel and Khakhykhel are the largest Pashtoon Sarbani tribes in North West or Khyber Pukhoonkhwa of Pakistan and Afghanistan.