South Waziristan Agency has an area of 2,556 square miles. Three quarters of the population are Mahsud, the remaining quarter, Wazir. This division based on the traditional Nikkat (ancestral hereditaments) was confirmed by the British as the basis for all tribal dealings whether in terms of profit or loss, reward or punishment. . . . Read More

BABORI, a Pakhtun tribe originally from the Suleiman mountains, now widely dispersed. Its principal territory lies in Pakistan on the border between the Northwest Frontier Province and Baluchistan, extending over the Suleiman mountains into the Derajat foothills around Chaudhwan, where certain lineages are said to have been domiciled since the . . . Read More