The Chagharzai tribe of Yusufzai Afghans inhabit both banks of the Indus above Boner. Their three subdivisions are the Nasrat Khel, with 800 fighting men ; Firozi and l3asi Khel, with 4150 fighting men. The Trans-Indus Chagharzai have 1950 fighting men.
Ghoria Khel is a name sometimes used to designate the fivo Peshawur tribes, Mobmand, Daudzai, Khalil, Chamkani, and Muhruntnadzai.
They are descended from four sons of Ghoria, son of Khar Shabun, son of Saraband. The Ghoria Khel came from Kandahar, and settled for many generations in Ghazni, from which they removed to Kabul, and afterwards to Nangrahar and Peshawur in the reign of Kamran, son of Baber ; they fought with the Dilazak, and gradually got possession of the country, which they still retain, the Chamkani excepted. Their chiefs are called Arbab, lords. They are said to be more treacherous than other Pathans.
The Daudzai tribe of the Ghoria are located in the Peshawur valley, between the Khalil and Khalsa divisions and the Kabul river. The population in 1868 was returned at 37,671, almost all Muhammadans, Syud, 3foghul, Daud zai, Gujar, Khojah, Kashmiri, Khatri, and Arora. The three Daudzai sections are the Mandaki, Mamur, and Yusuf. In 1881, there were only 5898 of the Daudzai tribe returned in the Paujab.
The Khalil inhabit a portion of the Peshawur district in the plain between the Khaibar Hills and Peshawur. They are of Afghan descent. Their chiefs have the titular name of Arbab (the Arabic plural of Rah, lord). They numbered 13,595 souls in 1881. About ipo serve in the Bengal army and Panjab force.
The Mohmand tribe are partly independent, but a portion of them colonized in the south-western lands of the Peshawur district, and in 1881 numbered 44,009 souls.. ,They are now respect able cultivators, have been lukewarm supporters of . the British, and have maintained friendly relations with their neighbours, the Afridi. They have not, however,- fraternized with• their fellow• Mohmands of the rugged, sterile, .hilly country N.W. of Peshawur, against whom in 1851 a force under Sir Colin Campbell was sent ; in 1854 another force was sent under Colonel Boileau ; and in 1864, a third time, under Colonel Mac.: donell. The Pendi Ali Mohmand -worried the border for the first eleven years of • British'rule. The six clans of the Mohmands can turn out 19,700 fighting men ; Tarakzai, 2500.; Halimzai, 3000 ; Khwaizai, 800, Baizai, 12,000 ; Utmanzai, 500; and Dawezai, 900. The Halimzai section includes the chiefs who hold the Panjpao lands in the British territory near Shabkadr, and inhabit the Kamal district north of Pindi Ali. They are con sidered the best fighting men of the Mohmand. By 1873 only 272 Mohmands had entered the Panjab force and Bengal army. , • • In the Hashtnuggur division.of the Peshawur district are two tribes meriting notice,—the Mian, a branch of the Kaka' Khatak, who are carriers, and the Muhammadzai or Mamanzai, a mixed population of 25,000 souls, who have about 5000 matchlockmen.
The Gagiani tribe of Pathans in the Doaba division of the Peshawur district are said to have come from the valley of the Kabul river, and to have ousted the Dilazak. Some of them settled at first in Bajawar, but were soon driven out by the Tarkolani.
The Parancha is a mercantile tribe of about 500 families, who are said to have come from Baghdad and settled in various parts of the frontier districts of Kohat and Peshawur. They claim descent from Nusherwan. They trade from Bombay and Calcutta with tea, indigo, chocolate, and cloth, about September, to Bokhara, and from Bokhara they start afresh for Yarkand, kand, and Orenburg, and go also to the fair at Nijni Novgorod, which they call Makraia, and bring back wrought silk, Tilla and Ratiska coins.
The Kohat district of the Panjab is on the right bank of the Indus, between lat. 33°.. and 33° 35' N., and long. 70° 35' and 71° 55' E. It extends 120 miles from Darwazai on the right bank of the Indus in the Khatak country, five miles below Atak, to Biland Khel on the Kuram river, at the head of the Miranzai valley. The breadth of the. Kohat district is from Darwazai to Rokwan in the Shakrdara estate, where it joins the Bairn district ; the distance is 72 miles, a labyrinth of barren rocks and ravines of the most impracticable nature intersecting it in every direction. Its area is 1,816,000 acres, of. which 1,497,760 are absolutely barren. Its rivers are the Kohat Toi and Tiri Toi. It produces sulphur, alum, and has rock-salt mines. The population of 145,419 souls consists of Sikh, Hindus, Bangash, and Khatak 3fuhammadans. The Kohat defile in the Afridi hills between Kohat and Peshawur runs for miles from Fort Mackeson to Busti Khel. The Kohat district is divided by tribes into two unequal parts, viz. the northern and more fertile but smaller part, consisting generally of the system of the Kohat Toi ; this is inhabited by the Bangash, while the southern, which is the larger and more desolate portion, belongs to the Khatak ; it consists of the system of the Tiri and the south .spurs of the Khatak Hills.' The British -administrative divisions . of Kohat are Kohat Kilns and iTiri. The total population is 145,419 souls ; of. this 1808 are Sikhs, 6544 Hindus, 136,565 Muhammadans, comprising Yusufzai, Bangash, Khatak, Orakzai, Baluch, Waziri, Syud, 3loghul, Mohmand, and other Pathans, with Jat, Ranghar, Matti, Arora, Gakkar, Parancha, Brahmans, Khatri, Bania; and Sikh.. . , The Kohat „pass .in the Afridi hills leads front Kohat to Peshawur. It runs down the bed of a stream, with a level roadway.' • Its width varies, and the tribes interested in it are the Bangash, Jawaki Afridi, Adam Khel Bazoti, Firoz Khel, Utman Khel, and Sipah Orakzai, Gali Khel, Akhorwal, and Hasn Khel. • In 1850 a .force under Sir Colin Campbell moved against the Afridi, and:, since then the pass has .been occa sionally. blockaded. .