Tarakai

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{{short description|Pashtun tribe}}

{{Pashtuns}}

The Tarakai or Taraki ({{langx|ps|تره کي}}) is a Ghilzai{{cite book|last=García Ayuso|first=Francisco|title=El Afghanistan|year=1878|publisher=R. Labajos|location=Madrid|page=99|url=http://bibliotecadigitalhispanica.bne.es/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=1843199&custom_att_2=simple_viewer}} Pashtun tribe; mainly found in the Ghazni province of Afghanistan and the large number of population of Tarakai tribe is now settled in Pakistan, mainly in Quetta, Pishin, Zhob, Loralai, Duki, Sherani of Balochistan, Swabi of Khyber Pashtunkhwa and other major cities of Pakistan. The tribe is further extended into several major clans/tribes: BadinKhel, NaKhel, SaakKhel, FerozKhel, TaswelKhel, GurbizKhel. These tribes are further divided into more sub-tribes within the above-mentioned clans/tribes. The information is collected from the mentioned books, the links of the books are given below for further inquiries or information. This source is authentic and are acceptable. The books URLs are mentioned in references.

The Tarakai were one of the Pashtun tribes resettled under the rule of king Abdur Rahman Khan in the late 19th century.{{cite book|author1=Amin Saikal|author2=Ravan Farhadi|author3=Kirill Nourzhanov|title=Modern Afghanistan: a history of struggle and survival|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MuF55mSIt4EC&pg=PA38|year=2006|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-84511-316-2|page=38}} The first Communist leader of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Nur Muhammad Taraki was from the Taraki tribe.