They migrated from
Kabul when Mirza
Ulugh Beg was governor. He succeeded his father,
Shah Rukh, who was a son of
Timur (Taimur-e-Lang), in 1446 A.D. In the time of
Babur, who first came to Kabul in 1504 A.D., Peshawar had been colonized by Afghan tribes, such as the
Swatis and
Dilazaks. On his second visit, fourteen years later, he found the Yusufzais had spread into
Swat. The current settlement of the Yusufzais must have come about after this time. Some believe that the Yusufzais are one of the Ten Lost Tribes of the Hebrews.
The Yusufzai took much of their current lands from the Afghan tribes
Dilazaks and
Swatis, after a single but desperate and decisive battle fought on the plains between the villages of Gadar and Langarkot.
Babur himself helped subdue the tribes against Yususfzais, using matchlocks for the first time against the
Jahangiri sultan,
Mir Haider Ali Gebri of
Bajour.
Bibi Mubarka had married King
Babur, and had also been titled as "Afghani Agacha".
Yousafzais have shown great bravery against
Sikhs and British in the 18th and 19th century, especially the
clans of
Swat and
Black Mountain of Hazara. The famous battle of
Ambela, Sura took place in 1863. The sikh General Harri Singh was killed by the
Yusafzai in a battle that was fought outside
Peshawar in
Chamkani. Bakht Khan Rohilla (1797 - 1859) was the nominal
commander-in-chief of Indian rebel forces in the
Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the
British East India Company. He too was a
YusafzaiOne of the first tribal militia that was sent to liberate Kashmir in
1948 war was a 10000 strong tribal army of Yusafzai from
Mardan,
Swabi and
Malakand.
The village
Sura has itself a huge history of its dominance in
Buner, The first educated person in this village was
Khawaja Muhammad Khan who was on the post of
Mirza in the erra of
Wali-e-Swat. Two of four of his descendents
Miraj Muhammad, Siraj Ahmed, Khizar Muhammad, Mukhtar Ahmed has joined Pakistan-Army and shown the traditional Braveness of Kamalzai's in the war of field against India.
The first and second Graduates of District Buner were Mr. Taj Muhammad Shah and Mr. Taj Rahim Shah, both are brothers and sons of Mr. Zeenat Shah who belonged from Bajkata (village of Buner).
The great Captain
Karnal Sher Khan who was awarded the highest gallantry award of the
Pakistan army, the
Nishan-e-Haider, was a
Yousafzai from the
Swabi district.
