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Ghoryakhel


The Ghoryakhel (Pashto: غورياخېل‎) is Pashtun supertribe son of Kand son of Kharshbun son of Sarban, son of Qais Abdur Rashid, who lived in Ghwara Marghay Arghistan Qandahar but mostly settled in Ghazni on the basin of Tarnak River and Nangarhar, Logar, Kabul, Kunar, Kunduz of Afghanistan and also in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Peshawar Pakistan between the 15th and 16th century. The largest tribe belonging to the Ghoryakhel confederacy is Mohmand while other tribes belonging to the confederacy include Daudzai, Mulagori, Khalil, Shilmani, Zeerani, Daulatyar tribe, Chamkani tribe, Halimzai, Zakhil or Zakhilwal, Hazarbuz, Tarakzai, Khawezai. The legendary Pashto Poet Rahman Baba also belonged to Mohmand subtribe of the Ghoryakhel.

According to Pata Khazana Pashtun History Book written by Abdulhai Habibi that Kharshbun and Sharkhbun are brothers. Kharshbun had three sons Kand, Zamand, Kasi and Sharkhbun had six sons Urmar, Babar, Baraich, Miana, Tareen, Sheerani. Kand had two sons Ghoryakhel and Khakhykhel, Zamand had five sons Muhammadzai and Kheshgi are more popular and Kasi had eleven sons Shinwari and Zhamaryani are more popular.


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