The Wardak Pashtun are a Pashtun tribe mainly found in Wardak Province

Wardak Province

Maidan Wardak Province is one of thirty four provinces of Afghanistan located in the central east region of Afghanistan. It has a population of approximately 540,100. The capital of the province is Maidan Shar...

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Afghanistan

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The various Wardak sub-tribes live in each of the province’s districts except for Hesa Awal Behsood and Markazi Behsood. Currently several Wardak Pashtuns hold important posts in the central government, including the Ministry of Defense (General Abdur Rahim Wardak), the Ministry of Information, Culture and Youth (Abdul Karim Khoram), and the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.

Sources

• Program for Culture and Conflict Studies. Wardak. US Naval Postgraduate School. Last updated 23 January 2009.