Tatur

Pashtun tribe

Tatur

The position of Tatur among the Lodi/Lohani tribes and the larger Bettani tribal confederacy.

Ethnicity| Pashtun
Location| Tank District, Frontier Region Tank
Parent tribe| Lohani, Lodi
Religion| Sunni Islam

Tatur, also known as Tator or Tatoor, is a small Pashtun tribe among the larger Lodi/Lohani tribe located in Tank District of Pakistan.[1][2][3]

## History

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As a Lohani tribe, the Tatur have shared the same historical migration pattern as other Lohani, such as the Marwats, having historically been present primarily in Loya Paktia region, with their previous settlments in Paktika Province of Afghanistan, specifically the Katawaz area in Khairkot District, as well as a presence in Waziristan, before eventually settling in neighboring Tank District.[2][4] In South Waziristan, a Lodi tribe known as the Dotani still exists, whereas Lohani and Lodi presence in Paktika has disappeared.[4]

> "Nothing is more remarkable throughout Waziristan than the traces of terraced fields which remain to show that once men grew corn where there is no tillage. In Waziristan anyhow local tradition is unanimous that it was in the days of the Marwats or the Urmars that, these lands were cultivated and mainly all the water channels of any size or length which still survive were cut."

> — Evelyn Howell, Mizh: a monograph on government‘s relations with the Mahsud tribe, Pg 97

The tribe was also mentioned by H. G. Raverty in his Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan book published in 1880 and was referred to as Tataur, Tutor, and Tutohr.[5]

## References

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1. ^ "History of the Afghans. | Library of Congress". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
2. ^ a b Office, Punjab Settlement Commissioner's; Tucker, H. St George (1879). Report of the Land Revenue Settlement of the Dera Ismail Khan District of the Punjab, 1872-79. W. Ball. pp. 42, 46.
3. ^ Yunas, S. Fida (2002). Afghanistan: The Afghans and the rise and fall of the ruling Afghan dynasties and rulers. p. 52.
4. ^ a b Howell, Evelyn (1931). Mizh: A Monograph on Government's Relations with the Mahsud Tribe. p. 99.
5. ^ Raverty, Henry Raverty (1880). Notes on Afghanistan and Baluchistan. pp. 325, 326. ISBN 978-9693512625.