Mohammadzai
Subtribe of the Barakzai Durrani Pashtuns / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Durrani tribe. For the Hashtnagar tribe in Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, see Muhammadzai (Hashtnagar).
Mohammadzai (Pashto: محمدزی), also spelled Moḥammadzay (meaning "descendants of Mohammad"), is a Pashtun sub-tribe or clan of the Barakzai which is part of the Durrani confederacy of tribes.[1][2] They are primarily centered on Kandahar, Kabul and Ghazni in Afghanistan as well as in the city of Charsadda in neighbouring Pakistan.[1] The Mohammadzai ruled Afghanistan from 1823 to 1978, for a total of 155 years. Their rule ended under Daoud Khan when the Communists took power via a Soviet-backed coup.