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The Daulatzai's are one of the major Pashto speaking tribes of Northern Afghanistan. They reside mainly in the province of Balkh, and also in parts of surrounding provinces.
In Afghanistan. The best-known group of Dolatzai belongs to the confederation of Ghilzai tribes, though its status is somewhat controversial. According to Afghan genealogists the Dolatzai constitute merely a section of the Saleh Khel subtribe of the Suleiman Khel tribe (Hayat Khan, p. 164; Yar Muhammad, p. 214). Although most Dolatzai acknowledge the connection, it has been reported that the Suleiman Khel do not (Robinson, p. 159), considering the Dolatzai an independent, non-Ghilzai tribe. Similar situations are frequent among the Pashtun and usually reflect the genealogical transposition by adoption of a loose political alliance between a larger tribe and a smaller, vassal tribe.
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