Barazai is a village situated in the east of Hazro Tehsil

Hazro Tehsil

Hazro Tehsil is one of the six tehsils of Attock District in the Punjab province of Pakistan, it is a newly created tehsil and forms parts of the NA-57 constituency of Attock . It's capital is Hazro...

, Attock District

Attock District

Attock District is a district in the north-west Punjab Province of Pakistan.The district was created in April 1904 by the merger of Talagang Tehsil in the Jhelum District with the Pindigheb, Fatehjang and Attock tehsils from Rawalpindi District of the Punjab province of British India.Attock...

 in northern Punjab

Punjab (Pakistan)

Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

 in Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. Its altitude is 315 metres (1036 feet).

Demographics

Barazai is the biggest village of Union Council Malak Mala

Malak Mala

Malak Mala is a village in the Chachh region of Attock District in Northern Punjab of Pakistan. It lies close to the borders of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Its neighboring villages include Barazai, Behbudi, Shinka, Nartopa and Ghorghushti town....

 with a population of nearly 16,000. The founder of this village was Umar Khan, who came from Ghazni

Ghazni

For the Province of Ghazni see Ghazni ProvinceGhazni is a city in central-east Afghanistan with a population of about 141,000 people...

, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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. He had four sons: Qasim Khan, Magdod Khan, Mirza Khan and Kod Khan. A large percentage of the population of Barazai have Pashtun

Pashtun people

Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...

 roots. They are mostly descendants of the Musa zai (Sar kani) and Alizai (Durrani

Durrani

Durrani or Abdali is the name of a chief Pashtun tribal confederation in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Originally known by their ancient name Abdali later as Durrani they have been called Durrani since the beginning of the Durrani Empire in 1747. The number of Durranis are estimated to be roughly 16%...

) tribes. These people speak Hindko

Hindko language

Hindko , also Hindku, or Hinko, is the sixth main regional language of Pakistan. It forms a subgroup of Indo-Aryan languages spoken by Hindkowans in Pakistan and northern India, some Pashtun tribes in Pakistan, as well as by the Hindki people of Afghanistan...

 and Pashto

Pashto language

Pashto , known as Afghani in Persian and Pathani in Punjabi , is the native language of the indigenous Pashtun people or Afghan people who are found primarily between an area south of the Amu Darya in Afghanistan and...

, and they follow the Pashtunwali

Pashtunwali

Pashtunwali or Pakhtunwali is a non-written ethical code and traditional lifestyle which the indigenous Pashtun people from Afghanistan and Pakistan follow. Some in the Indian subcontinent refer to it as "Pathanwali". Its meaning may also be interpreted as "the way of the Pashtuns" or "the code of...

 code of conduct. Other tribes originated in Peshawar

Peshawar

Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....

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People from Barazai have emigrated abroad to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, United States

United States

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 and Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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Many people from Barazai work in the Merchant Navy of Pakistan

Infrastructure

Barazai has both girls' and boys' high schools. There are one Sofi Buzarag Almahrof Baba Jee Sab which belong to Barazi and the sharen of Shaheed Baba are also in the village of Barazai. Basically Barazai has 4 mohallahs from Start Maghdozai, Qasim Khail, Shaba Khel and Mula Khel but recently it contail Musa Khel, Mashriqi Dhwok, Maghrabi Dhowk, Nawab Abad, School Banda and many more. Barazai contains 25 Mosjid Post Offices. Barazai also has Islamic Daras Ghah for girls and boys opened by the late Haji Abdul Aziz( - 31/05/2010), a respected figure in the village. Ref ( Safdar Khan Naib Nazim Barazai ).