Sohail Zaman SwatiMale

•  Jeddah, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia
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The Swatis (Pashto: سواتي‎) are a Pashtun tribe of the Batani tribal confederacy of the Afghans, inhabiting the Hazara region in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, mostly in the districts of Mansehra and Batagram, and to some extent in Kohistan as well, but a number of Swati lineages are settled in the Kashmir region. The Swatis are the largest tribal group of land owners in Mansehra and Battagram. Most of the Swatis speak Pashto, but many can also speak Hindko. Dari Persian was the official language of the Jahangiri sultans belonging to the Swati tribe, who ruled a kingdom stretching from Jalalabad and Bajaur to Kashmir, however it is no longer spoken now. The name Swati is associated with their initial settlement in Swat, but later on they migrated into Hazara on the eastern side of the Indus River. The Swatis adhere to Pashtunwali, the Pashtun tribal code, strictly and call it Swatiwali