The Malisud Waziri number about 15,000 fight ing men ; they inhabit the hills on the Tank and the South Banu borders. Their sections are the Alizai, 5600 ; the Shahman Khel, 3000 ; and Balozai, 8100. They have always been highly predatory, especially the Alizai branch, and are at enmity with all around them. On the British occupation, they resumed their habits, and in 1860 the tribe was overcome by a force under General Chamberlain, 5196 strong. The British lost 63 killed and 166• wounded ; the Mahsud Waziri lost more, but nevertheless have continued troublesome. They occupy the vast and lofty mountain range to the S. of the Banu district, and to the W. of the -Dehra Ismail Khan district. Its principal hills are the Ghubur, about 7000 feet above the level of the sea ; the Pirghul, 11,500 ; the Shuvi Dhur, 11,000 feet ; and behind and above all, beyond the Mahsud territory, towers the Takht-i-Suliman, 14,000 feet above the sea level.
The Ahmadzai have about 9580 fighting men.
The Haii Khel are the most numerous of all the Ahmadzai. They are very much employed in the salt trade, but had many idle hands, some of whom in a band of robbers murdered Captain Mecham on the 5th November 1859. Before the Sikh conquest of the Panjab, about the beginning of the 19th century, the Ahmadzai nomades had occupied the Bann country in winter, and at length took permanent possession of the lands nearest the Thal. The Bizan Khel section of the Ahmadzai are responsible for the passes of Pinza, Khurd, Kalani, hilhoi, Ghlosin, Tangi.
The Utinanzai are the most northerly clan, and can muster about 17,000 fighting men. Of their sections, the Kabul Khel are wild and lawless, with three subdivisions, the Miami, the Saefali, and the Pipali, numbering 3500 fighting men. The Kabul Khel, between 1850 and 1854, committed over twenty petty raids on British territory, and the British blockaded the whole tribe.
Although the Waziri are a united tribe, the clans have not joined each other on the occasions of the British expeditions into their territories. The blood feuds are not extensive, the actual murderer only being permitted to be slain in avenging a murder. They have no poor amongst them, the tribe subscribing to re-establish any family who are in need. They have cereals as their chief food, but use mutton. All grave yards are sacred to the Waziri, who in their yearly migrations to the hills never hesitate to deposit on the family tombs any property they wish to leave behind them. This is left untouched even by professional robbers. They have amongst them great numbers of fakirs, and they hold the tomb of Darvesh Musa in great veneration. In
cases of adultery, they kill the woman and cut off the man's nose. Like all Pathan tribes, marriages are entered into after puberty. Child less widows are re-married to a relative of the deceased. The bridegroom buys his bride.
The Batani Pathans inhabit the outer spurs of the Waziri adjoining the S. of Banu and N. of Dehra Ismail Khan districts, from the E. slopes of the Gabr mountain at the Shamla Khurd pass to the Hisara pass. They trace their lineage through Batan to Kais, the founder of the Afghan race. Captain Maclean's list of their sections gives the Dana with 1400 ; the Tata, 1600 ; and the Uraspun, 1000 fighting men. Captain Nor man gives the sections of the Dana as the Bobak, Bobar, Voraka ; and the Uraspun, as the Tsaplai Shakhai. Captain Carr gives ten sub-sections of the Tata, 16 of the Dana, and 13 of the Uraspun. The Batani country is bare, stony, and unculti vated, resembling the Doon of the Himalaya. There are numerous passes into their hills • their principal settlements within the hills are those of Jandula, Siragar, and Gabr. They have flocks of sheep and herds of cattle, and. cultivate wheat and bajra (Penicillaria spicata). They are of middle height; spare and wiry, are agricultural but predatory. They number 4G00 fighting men at the outside. They were for years trouble some. They bring to British territory, wood, wool, ropes, malu, camels, bullocks, sheep, goats, hill rice, ghi, and honey, and take back grain, sugar, oil, salt, donkeys, piece goods, and sandals.
Da war is a rich, open, and fertile valley, in lat. 33° 7' N., and long. 32° 57' E. It is called Rodh by the inhabitants, who style themselves Duna or Mariusi ; it is entirely surrounded by the Waziri Hills, and the Waziri settlers on the British border. The Banuchi are its nearest neighbours, and its corn municatious with its neighbours are through the motuitain tracts of the Suliman range. The tribal divisions are Tapizai and Malai, with many sub divisions ; and the entire population has 25,000 souls, all of them Sunni Muhammadan. All their villages are walled ; fever prevails, and goitre is a common disease. Lieutenant-Colonel Ed wardes described them as great blackguards, and they are depraved and vicious, and are addicted to great crimes. They shave one eyebrow, half the mous tache, and half the beard, and apply antimony above and below the eye. On the 6th March 1872, a force of 1650 cavalry and infantry with two guns was sent against them under Brigadier-General Keyes, C.B., and after a brief action ou the 7th they submitted, the British loss being 6 wounded, and the Dawari loss 43 killed and 30 prisoners.