Kharoti

The Kharoti (Pashto:خروٹی) خروټی) are a Pashtun tribe of Ghilji origin, originating in the central part of Paktika Province, Afghanistan, but can be also found in other parts of the country. The Kharoti settled in Kharotabad in Quetta, British India (now Pakistan) around 1945.[citation needed]

There are large Kharoti populations in the Paktika districts of Urgun, Barmal, Sar Hawza, Zarghun Shahr, Omna, Surobi, and in Ghazni, Zabul, Paktia, Khost, Logar, Wardak, Kabul, Nangarhar, Helmand, Gomal, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Dera Ismail Khan and Quetta.

Significance

As Pashtuns of the Ghilji confederacy, the heyday of the Kharotis was during the peak of the Khāns of the Nasher-Nashir family. With the rise of the rival Durrani confederacy in the 18th century, the Kharoti lost their leading role in Afghan politics but remained strong in rural Afghan regions. However, they often view themselves as the "true Pashtuns" and, being Ghilji, as the rightful leaders of Afghanistan.

The Kharoti, along with the Ghilzais and Hazara, were recorded as frequenting the Kurram Valley in British India by missionary Theodore Pennell in 1909. Around 1945, the tribe settled in Quetta, founding Kharotabad.

Notable Kharotis

See also

References

  1. ↑ Paktika Personalities: An Examination of the Tribes and the Significant People of a Traditional Pashtun Province - Timothy S. Timmons and Rashid Hassanpoor (2007)
  2. ↑ "Paktya Province". The Program for Culture & Conflict Studies. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  3. ↑ Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton) (1914). Among the wild tribes of the Afghan frontier; a record of sixteen years' close intercourse with the natives of the Indian marches. Getty Research Institute. London, Seeley & Co., limited.
  1. ↑ for other use of title Lōy Khan see Mir Zaman Khan