Friday 1 August 2014

THE WAY OF THE JADOON PATHAN'S

JADOON

The Jadoon/Gadoon are a Pashtun tribe in Pakistan.The Jadoon (Hindko/Pashto/Urduجدون‎), also called Gadoons (Pashtoګدون‎), is a Pashtun tribe in Pakistan. Horace Rose, an amateur ethnologist and adminBritish Raj, noted them in 1911 as being present partly in Gadoon in Swabi, and partly in Abbottabad and Haripur districts ofKhyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Across the Durand line, some members of the tribe live in Nangarhar and Kunar in Afghanistan. The Jadoons speak Pashto in Swabi and Afghanistan and Hindko in Abbottabad and Haripur.The name Jadoon is sometimes spelled as Gadoon and in one citation as Suddoon .Actually jadoon are the ihebatants and gadoon is the area.the people of gadoon are called jadoon.[1]