History Of Jadoon

JADOONS   

Jadoon is aPashtun tribe.
They are very patriotic by nature and they sacrifice their lives for the sake of their beloved country.They live in the districts of Abbottabad and Swabi of N.W.F.P of Pakistan. Their spoken language is Pashto in Swabi and mostly Hindko in Abbottabad. Jadoons were freedom fighters and they showed bravery against their rivals, especially the Sikhs and the British with other prominent Pashtun tribes of the region like Swati, Tareens and Mashwanis. Jadoons leader Sakhi Jan Jadoon has been martyred during the freedom efforts against the Sikhs in the 18th century. Jadoons captured lower hazara (Haripur,Abbottabad) in 18th century and settled there. They are divided into two great clans namely Salar and Mansoor.
             The Jadoon nation is proud of its heroes who sacrificed their lives and salutes them on their acts of bravery. One of them is Captain Daryafat Khan Shaheed who embraced shahadat in the 1971 war at Kulna Jeysore in Bangladesh.
            The Jadoons are holding the key posts in the government and private sectors like ARMY, AIR FORCE, WAPDA, PTA, PIA, RAILWAYS, EDUCATION ETC. Since the beginning the Jadoons have a key role in the politics of the country.That's the reason they have been holding key ministries also.
 HISTORTY OF JADOONS:
          The Jadoon are descended from Ashraf also known as jadoon (Gadoon) of the Panni clan of the Ghurghusht Afghan. Parni, Kakar, Naghar (who created the Naghar tribe and Dawi were four sons of Daney son of Ismail, also known as Ghurghusht. They created three tribes: Parni, Kakar, and Naghar (Dawi mixed with the Kakar)
           The people of this tribe call themselves jadoons, but Eastern Afghans who change the letter S`h into K`h and "j" into "G" style them Gadoons as the letter J and G are interchangeable in the Pushto language, just as jillani and Gillani are synonyms. The Jadoons were freedom fighters and they showed bravery against their rivals, especially the Sikhs and the British with other prominent Pashtun tribes of the region like the Swati, Tareens Khaji khail and Shilmani. Their leader Sakhi Jan Jadoon had been martyred during the freedom efforts against the Sikhs in the 19th century.
 ORIGIN: 
       

The Jadoon are descended from Ashraf also known as jadoon (Gadoon) of the Panni clan of the Ghurghusht Afghan. Parni, Kakar, Naghar (who created the Naghar tribe and Dawi were four sons of Daney son of Ismail, also known as Ghurghusht.[1] They created three tribes: Parni, Kakar, and Naghar (Dawi mixed with the Kakar)
        The people of this tribe call themselves jadoons, but Eastern Afghans who change the letter S`h into K`h and "j" into "G" style them Gadoons as the letter J and G are interchangeable in the Pushto language, just as jillani and Gillani are synonyms. The Jadoons were freedom fighters and they showed bravery against their rivals, especially the Sikhs and the British with other prominent Pashtun tribes of the region like the Swati, Tareens Khaji khail and Shilmani. Their leader Sakhi Jan Jadoon had been martyred during the freedom efforts against the Sikhs in the 19th century

The Jadoons originally lived on the western slopes of the Spin Gharrange, in the Nangarhar region of Afghanistan.Later on, the Jadoons migrated to the Kabulregion. In the 16th century, the Jadoons joined the Yusufzai,who had been expelled from Kabul by Mirza UlughBeg , a paternal uncle of the Mughal Emperor Babur, and they migratedeastwards into the Peshawar region and settled in areas inhabited by the Dilazaktribe of the Afghans. They succeeded to defeat the Dilazaks at the battle ofKatlang , and pushed them towards the Hazararegion east of the Indus River. The Jadoons eventually settled in Swabiat the western bank of the Indus River. But later, some of the Jadoons alsosettled on the eastern bank of the Indus River, in Abbottabad and Haripur.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadoon

What is special about Jadoons?

• Bravery and hospitality
• Open Hearted and God gifted abilities
• Their culture and traditions

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Clans of Jadoons

The Jadoon tribe is divided into three sub-tribes.

• Salar
• Mansoor
• Hassa’zai

These tribes are further sub-divided into several smaller clans.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadoon

Why do Jadoons prefer to marry within Jadoons?

What do you say about this? Do you think it is right just to marry within Jadoon Family? There are many cases where Jadoons have got their sons/daughters married out of Jadoon Family? Please do comment

Notable Jadoons

Notable Jadoons of Abbottabad & Swabi

• Ali Afzal Khan Jadoon (ex law minister N.W.F.P,businessman)
• Malik Qalander Khan Jadoon (worker of Pakistan movement and member of grand jirga of Abbottabad and Malik of Shoaib Zai tribe)
• Amanullah Khan Jadoon (Minister of Petroleum and Gas)
• Ahmed Nawaz Khan Jadoon (MD Akbar Group of Industries Pty Ltd, A well-known businessman and a politician of Abbottabad area)
• Iqbal Khan Jadoon (13th Chief Minister of NWFP)
• Iqbal Khan Jadoon (Manager Operations, Descon Qatar)
• Malik Jahangir Khan (late)(Ex-Chairman Town Committee, Nawanshehr)
• Faqir Khan Jadoon (Late) (Ex-Chief Engineer WAPDA/Saudi Arabia)
• Suleman Khan Jadoon(Late) (Ex-Dy Project Director, Sandak Project, Quetta)

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‘The Jadoons’ by Mr. Sultan Khan Jadoon(late)

A book written by Mr Sultan Khan Jadoon (late) on Jadoon tribe is now available for download. You can download the contents of the book by following the links below.

• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• The Jadoons