Achakzai

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Achakzai (Urdu: اچکزئی) is a Pashtun tribe settled in Pakistan. The village or hometown of the Achakzai's is Qilla Abdullah in Balochistan. The Achakzai's have demanded a separate province for the Pashtun ethic group, a province that should include Quetta, Qilla Abdullah, Mianwali and Pastun parts of Balochistan, NWFP, FATA and named as Pashtunistan. Some famous Achakzai's are Mahmood Khan Achakzai (MNA & Chairman of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party), and his father was another respectable politician, Shaheed Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai.

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