Mohmand
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The Mohmand ( ) or Momand is a prominent tribe of Pashtun people belonging to the Ghoryakhel tribe of Sarbani Branch.
The Mohmand ( ) or Momand is a prominent tribe of Pashtun people belonging to the Ghoryakhel tribe of Sarbani Branch.
Distribution
They are based primarily in the Mohmand territory, which is located in Nangarhar, Afghanistan and Mohmand Agency, in Pakistan. Momonds are in every province of Afghanistan, their areas of presence include Nangarhar, Ghazni, Kandahar, Kunar, Logar and Kunduz. Mohmands are In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan, they predominantly reside in the Mohmand Agency (formerly part of the Tribal Areas), with others later settle area in Charsadda, Mardan and Peshawar District. Momands are living southside in Peshawar called (Koz Momand) in Pashto mean Lower Momand. as every historian or writer mentioned in their book, that these two Momand are the same Momand and same Shajarah Nasab, or Family Tree. Peshawar Momands has so many villages, from Badaber, Mashokhel, Hassankhel, Masrizai, Bazidkhel, etc.
Notables
Rahman Baba Abdur Rahmān Mohmand (1632–1706) (Pashto: عبدالرحمان بابا), or Rahmān Bābā (Pashto: رحمان بابا), was a renowned Pashtun Sufi Dervish and poet. Abdul Hamid Baba Abdul Hamid Mohmand ( –1732) (Pashto: عبدالحميد ماشو گگر), or Abdul Hamid (Pashto: عبدالحميد ), was a Pashtun poet and a Sufi figure. Aimal Khan Mohmand, Afghan warrior ruler who fought in the Afghan-Mughal Wars of the 17th Century against Emperor Aurangzeb Qalandar Momand, Pashto scholar, poet, critic, short story writer, journalist, linguist, lexicographer and academic. Mohammad Gul Khan Momand, Afghan Army Officer during the 1919 Anglo-Afghan War Abdul Ahad Momand, the first Afghan and the fourth Muslim to reach outer space. Rustam Shah Mohmand, former Chief Secretary of N.W.F.P, Diplomat, commissioner for Afghan Refugees and ambassador of Pakistan to Afghanistan Jamshaid Khan Mohmand, Member of Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Imran Khan Mohmand, former ANP and later independent candidate in the Provincial Assembly of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, martyred in a suicide blast in Shergarh Zain Khan Sirhindi (Mohmand), made Governor (Subahdar) of Sirhind province, India by Ahmad Shah Durrani (Abdali).
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