The Yūsufzai (also Youssofzay , Yousefzai , Yousafzai , Esapzey , Yousufi , or Yūsufi ) (Pashto: يوسفزی ,Persian and Urdu: یوسف زئی ) is one of the largest Pashtun (Afghans) tribes. The majority of the Yusufzai tribe reside in parts of Western Afghanistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Provincially Administered Tribal Areas near the Afghan-Pakistan border. They are the predominant population in the districts of Konar, Ningarhar, Mardan District, Dir, Swat,Malakand, Swabi, Buner, Shangla, Haripur District [Khalabat Town Ship and Tarbela] and in Mansehra and Battagram. There is also a Yusufzai clan of Dehwar tribe in the Mastung district of Balochistan who speak Persian with some mixture of Birahvi words. The descendants of Yusuf inhabit Konar, Jalalabad, Swat, Upper Dir, Lower Dir, Malakand Swabi and Mardan...
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