Bangash

The Bangash (Pashto: بنګش‎) are one of the largest and perhaps the most powerful and influential Pashtun tribe of the border area of eastern Afganistan and northern Pakistan. They inhabit the Kurram Valley as well as FATA and Thall, Hangu, Kohat and Orakzai Agency and Khyber Agency in northwestern Pakistan. On the other side of the Durand Line border in neighboring Afghanistan, a larger number of Bangash are scattered in the northeastern section of the Paktia and Paktika Province. "The Bangash tribe derived its name from the hilly area, north of the Sulaiman mountains, from Bannu to the Safed Koh, in between the Indus, and the Kurram river.". As small, limited number of descendants of the Bangash tribe are also present in Farrukhabad.