Who are the marwat tribe?

Answer 1

The Marwats (Pashto: مروت) are a Pashtun tribe, located primarily in Lakki Marwat District, parts of DI Khan and some villages of Tank district, located in the south of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Across the Durand line, a smaller number of the Marwats are scattered in parts of Paktika and Ghazni provinces of Afghanistan. The original homeland of the Marwats is Katawaz (کټواز, which is now called Zarghun Shar District) in Afghanistan, from where Marwats migrated to Daman (present day Tank) and Pezu, and later to Lakki Marwat.[1] There is a hill in Katawaz still called Marwati, which the Marwat tribe formerly inhabited.

The Marwats are also known as Spin Lohani ("White Lohanis"), and are a cousin tribe of Tokhis, Niazis, Hotaks, Surs and Lodis.

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