Chamkani (Pashtun tribe)

The Chamkani (Pashto: څمکني tsamkanī), also transliterated as Tsamkani or Samkani. In Paktia or Tribal dialect Chamkani is transliterated as Tsekmani or Sekmani, is a Pashtun tribe 4th son of Ghoryakhel confederation. They are mainly based in Tsamkani District, Paktia Province, Afghanistan, but can also be found in Kurram District, which is called para Chamkani, and the Chamkani neighborhood of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

They took part in the frontier battles 1897, and during the Tirah campaign of that year a brigade under General Gaselee was sent to punish them.[1]

Notable Chamkanis
  • Shoukat Aziz, a Pakistani human rights activist who abolished the British Colonial era Frontier Crimes Regulation and co-founded the FATA Youth Organization
  • Mian Mohammad Umar Chamkani, Mughal era Sufi Saint and one of the most influential Scholars of the time[2]

See also

References
  1. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Chamkanni". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 826.
  2. "Shrine of Mian Umar a place of spiritual solace". 30 September 2018.


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