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The present work can never be regarded or can claim to be a complete and through account of the Khattak tribe, but can be a source of persuasion for others to work on the subject and produce a more authoritative, self-contained and full story of the people, who can rightly claim their role in the history of the subcontinent.People who have been termed as "the best conducted and most respectable tribe on this frontier."

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Mr. Arif Khattak brings along a teaching and research experience of about 20 years. Presently he is the Director Academics at Iqra University, Islamabad. He has to his credit 16 books and 25 research papers. He was the first ever South Asia Fellow from Pakistan at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK (1999.

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