Musa Khel (Kakar)

The Makhzan-i Afghani, in Dorn's translation, names Musazye among the twenty-four sons of Kakar, son of Dani, son of Ghurghusht. The list is a bare run of names: Togruk, Jadram, Sabrad, Zanghori, Charmi, Bidar, Karkaranu, Fermulli, Khasani, Dammarsin, Sehkari, Lanbar, Taren, Isa, Targhari, Musazye, Mati, Yuneskail, Sam, Arpikhail, Jalajal, Makrani and Anach. The text goes on to give descendants for some of the brothers, such as Toghruk, Jadram, Sabrad and Taren, but none for Musazye.

Rose's glossary of the Punjab and the frontier, in the passage on the pawindah tribes of the Dera Ismail Khan border, places the Musa Khel Kakar next to the Andar. The Andar, he says, occupy nearly the whole district of Shilgar south of Ghazni, and associated with them are the Musa Khel Kakar, who are descended from an Andar woman and live south and west of Shilgar. Elphinstone also puts the Andar in Shilgar: he counts them among the Ghilzai clans of the Burhan branch, said to be 12,000 families, who cultivate the district of Shilgar and some of the land around it.^1–3

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The name Musa Khel belongs to several unrelated groups. Rose's list of Musa Khel clans includes one branch of the Panni Pathans with two sub-divisions, the Bahlzai and the Lahrzai. The Loralai gazetteer of 1907 describes this group as the Musa Khel of the Musa Khel tahsil of Loralai District, counted among the Panni and divided into two main clans, the Bel Khel and the Laharzai, who numbered 10,525 in 1901. They are a different people from the Kakar Musa Khel of Shilgar. Bellew, in 1891, describes a Musa Khel Pathan tribe north of the Khatran, reckoned at 6,000 families and considered by some a branch of the Kakar, though the Kakar do not acknowledge them as kindred.^2,4,5

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