Musakhel (Pashtun tribe)

The Musa Khel, or Moosa Khel, is a Pashtun tribe of Gharghasht origin. According to Horace Arthur Rose and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, they are part of the greater Panni tribe.[1][2] The tribe resides in the tribal range of Musakhel and Batagram District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. This tribe also reside in Khost province of Afghanistan. Musakhel tribe enjoy unique history due to its location. It is a backward district of Baluchistan where no college for girls is available till to-date, health and transport facilities are very miserable or nill. Musakhel borders the district of the southern Pashtun belt. It separates the Pashtun belt from the Baloch belt and Punjab (Tunsa).

References
  1. Rose, Harold Arthur (1911). Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North West Frontier Province (Facsimile edition 2006 ed.). Asian Educational Services, India. p. 438. ISBN 978-8120605053.
  2. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Musa Khel" . Encyclopædia Britannica. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 43.
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