WAZIRI, a brave, active, warlike, but aggressive and predatory race in the mountains on each side of Bannu and Dour. They occupy all the hill tract from Kuram and the Miranzai to the Gomal and Goleri pass, south of Tank. They hold both sides of this pass, which is the great route by which the trade of Afghanistan and Central Asia passes into India. Between the Miranzai and Bannu valleys, the hills of the Waziri project into British territory and approach the Bahadur Khel salt mines, from which they are separated by the Latammar paSs. Its numerous tribes are esti mated to muster 20,000 to 30,000 men. They had made repeated inroads 011 the Bannu valley-, and in the cold weather of 1859-60 an expedition scoured their valleys to _coerce them into sub mission. They are still, however, more or less independent. The Waziri are divided into three great divisions, or Usman Khel, Ahmadzai, and Malisud. Their country exteuds froin the south of the Kohat district down to Tank, opposite Delira Ismail Khan ; towards tho north they are bounded by the Afridi country, and towards the south by the tribe of 13admnian ; Bannu frontier is the habitat of the Alimadzai. These are divided into six sections, which again are sub divided into numerous smaller clans. One of these sections is called Sperkye ; it has two divisions, the smaller of which goes by the name of Muhammad and numbers about 250 fight ing men ; they live in the hills on both sides of the river Kuratn, and since A.D. 1850 a number
of them settled in British territory. They till their lands in the eold season, and during the stunmer months the greater portion of them retire to the hills, leaving a few to look after their fields. The other sections of the Alimaclzai are located in British territory on the t'hul between Bannu and Latammar ; they generally go by the name of T'hul Waziri. The Waziri country, in its southern part, has the lofty mountain Kussai Char, of which the Taklit-i-Sulaiman is the highest peak. The Viraziri, although notorious robbers, in common with other lawless tribes, regard the descendants of Mahomed with awe and a feeling of respectful reverence, and esteem themselves fortunate to receive their benediction, and other little aids their superstitious teach them to think essential. They are haughty and bloodthirsty towards strangers, prone to plunder, and careless about blood-shedding ; are plain spoken ; and though inclined to be boastful and rough in council, are true to their friends. They have never bwned any allegiance to Krabul.—Illasson's Journey, p. 101 ; Vigne, A Personal Narratire, p. 83 ; Our Panjab Frontier ; MacGregor.