Aba Khel Erotic

The Aba Khel are a Pashtun khel, a clan defined by descent through the male line. As with most Pashtun clans, the name makes its own claim: the people of Aba, a founding ancestor whose memory ties scattered households into one lineage. Belonging answers a question that still matters in Pashtun country, not just where someone lives but whose line they come from. Little has been written about this clan in particular, and much of what shapes Aba Khel life is shared with Pashtun society at large. Their home is Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Pakistani province that climbs from the Indus plains to the mountains of the Afghan border. They speak Pashto, an Eastern Iranian language. It is distantly related to the Dari Persian spoken to the west, and to the east it borders Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindko, Punjabi and Urdu. Urdu is Pakistan's national language, and many Pakistani Pashtuns also learn it through school and the media. Even the name of the language changes with geography: northern speakers say Pakhto, southern speakers Pashto.

Religion is Sunni Islam of the Hanafi school, and it runs through ordinary days: prayer times, the Ramadan fast, the village mosque. Beside it stands Pashtunwali, the unwritten code of honor, hospitality and sanctuary. The two usually support each other, but not always. Custom has often kept land away from daughters in ways that Islamic inheritance law does not allow. Disputes traditionally go to a jirga, a council of elders, and men receive guests in the hujra, a shared guesthouse that doubles as a meeting hall. One custom outsiders rarely hear about is tarburwali, the rivalry between paternal cousins. Cousins with the same grandfather have claims on the same land and standing, and the Pashto word for a father's brother's son, tarbur, also means rival. The clan that closes ranks against outsiders is also where its fiercest competition happens. The Aba Khel share their neighbors' history too. The 1893 Durand Line split Pashtun country between British India and Afghanistan, and in 1947 that line became Pakistan's frontier. In recent decades, many Pashtun men have left home to work in Karachi and the Gulf states.