Early Life
Nek Muhammad belonged to the Yargul Khai subclan of the Ahmadzai tribe. According to Dawn, his father:
"...had inherited a maliki which entitled him to token government allowances as well as a vote in the restricted franchise system and a khasadari, a political policeman's job which comes under a tribal system of distribution called nikat."
Nek's father, Nawaz Khan, was a member of the tribal elite and owned property in the village of Kalosha, South Waziristan, close to the Afghanistan border: Nek Muhammad was his second child. Muhammad was expelled from one madrassa for poor discipline. He received his early education at an Islamic school run by Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Islam leader Maulana Noor Mohammed.
Nek studied for five years at the Jamia Darul Uloom Waziristan. One of his teachers stated that he was a strong-willed student:
"Nek never had an intellectual mind but some other traits of his personality became evident during his stay at the Darul Uloom. He showed himself to be a hard-headed boy, endowed with an impenetrable soul and an obstinate determination to carry out his will no matter how mindless it might be."
He was later admitted to a college run by Pashtun nationalists, the Pakhtunkho Awami Party, but did not complete his studies, choosing instead to start a shop in the main bazaar of Wana.
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