Dhund (tribe)
The Dhund abbasi also written as DHUND is a sub tribe of the Arabic Hashmid Abbasid Tribe in Northern Pakistan. The Dhund Abbasi tribe traces its roots back to Al-‘Abbas ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib, the uncle of Mohammad. They are mainly settled in Abbottabad District and Murree Hills, Along with Tehsil Kahuta and in District Rawalpindi of Punjab Province. They are also found in District Haripur and Mansehra of Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. Apart from Abbottabad and Murree, there are large populations of Dhunds living in the Bagh District and Muzaffarabad District of Azad Kashmir.[1][2][1] The tribe speaks the Dhundi-Kairlali hill dialect of Pahari-Pothwari.[3] The word Dhund was an honorary name given to one of their forefathers.
Related pages
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change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Tribes and Language". Murree. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ↑ Sarwat Ali (25 June 2006). "Mystique of Murree — Review". Footloose. The News. Archived from the original on 6 September 2008.
- ↑ Pahari-Potwari Ethnologue
Further reading
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- Hastings Donnan (July 1985), "The Rules and Rhetoric of Marriage Negotiations among the Dhund Abbasi of Northeast Pakistan", Ethnology, 24 (3), University of Pittsburgh: 183–196, doi:10.2307/3773609, JSTOR 3773609
