Sudhan tribe members are found in Poonch District of Kashmir, Dera Ghazi Khan and Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province, Quetta in the Baluchistan Province, Sialkot, Lahore and Rawalpindi in the Punjab and in Karachi in Sindh Province of Pakistan. A small minority of Sudhans claim to be descended from the Sadozai tribe of Afghanistan, however, there is no evidence to support his claim. District Poonch,popularly known as mini Kashmir, is the smallest in area and the remotest district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. ... Shown in green is the Kashmiri region under Pakistani control. ...

Sudhans are a tightly knit community. Sudhans have the highest literacy rate of any tribe in Kashmir or Pakistan with over 90% of the population being literate according to the United Nations Statistics.

The founder and First President of (Free) Azad Kashmir, Sardar Ibrahim Khan is a member of the Sudhan tribe. Thereafter, Col Sher Ahmad Khan, Maj General M. Hayat Khan, and Incumbent President General Anwar are also from Sudan tribe. Sudhans contributed greatly in the uprsing against the Maharajah of Kashmir during 1947-1948 and created the administrative area known as Azad Kashmir. They are fiercely independent people. Sudhans are Sunni Muslims of the Hannafi brand of Islam. However, Wahabihism has found some converts in the Sudhan tribe as Sudhans having worked in Saudi Arabia have brought Wahabism back to Kashmir. Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Urdu: آزاد کشمیر), is part of the Pakistani-administered part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, along with the Northern Areas. ... Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan Sardar M. Ibrahim Khan was the Founder - President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. ... Shown in green is the Kashmiri region under Pakistani control. ...

Poonch district having few natural resources, resulted in Sudhans joining the military, initially joining the British Indian Army during the First World War and later during the [Second World War]. After the Second World War the veterans of the war revolted against the Maharajah of Kashmir which resulted in the formation of Azad Kashmir. District Poonch,popularly known as mini Kashmir, is the smallest in area and the remotest district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ... Shown in green is the Kashmiri region under Pakistani control. ...

Sudhan's are thought to be a branch of Abdali tribe of Afghanistan and a majority of the Sudhan tribe claim to belong to the Bani Israel. But this has to be ascertained by historical proof. They certainly do not belong to the aboriginal people of India as their characteristics are quite similar to those of Afghans and Europeans. More credence is given to this theory due to the fact that they are residing in a particular area and some oral traditions are still extant where the inter-relationship of the tribe is easily verified. The Sudhan tribe also consist of Hindu Brahmins who lived in Poonch but migrated to India. In an Islamic context, Bani Israil may refer to: the Children of Israel surat al-Isra This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

But the fact remains that research into their origin is far from complete and once the origin of Afghan tribes is established by DNA tests, the history of Sudans will also be authenticated.

External links

Official

• Official website of the Government of Azad Kashmir
• [http://www.tourism.gov.pk/d_kashmir.html Official Azad Kashmir tourism site

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