Ormur
Iranic tribe
title: "Ormur" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["waziristan", "ethnic-groups-in-logar-province", "ethnic-groups-in-afghanistan", "social-groups-of-khyber-pakhtunkhwa", "social-groups-of-punjab,-pakistan", "ethnic-groups-in-pakistan", "karlani-pashtun-tribes"] description: "Iranic tribe" topic_path: "geography/pakistan" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormur" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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The Ormur (), also called Burki or Baraki (), are an Eastern Iranic people and Pashtun tribe mainly living in Baraki Barak, in the Logar province of Afghanistan and in Kaniguram, in the South Waziristan district of Pakistan.
Background
The Pashtun warrior-poet Pir Roshan, born in 1525 in Jalandhar, India, belonged to the Ormur tribe. He moved with his family to their ancestral homeland of Kaniguram in Waziristan, from where he led the Roshani movement against the Mughal Empire.
Language and demographics
Ormuri is the first language of the Ormurs living in Kaniguram and its vicinity in South Waziristan; today, all are bilingual in the local Pashto dialect of Waziristani (Maseedwola).
They are also found in Baraki Barak in Logar and in the outskirts of Ghazni in Afghanistan. However, Pashto and Dari have replaced Ormuri language there.
Notable people
- Malik Haji Muhammad Qarib Burki
- Malik Irfan Burki
- Faqir of Ipi
- Farooq Feroze Khan
- Bilal Omer Khan
- Imran Khan
- Javed Burki
- Ijaz Khan (cricketer)
- Jamshed Burki
- Ahmed Raza (civil servant)
- Humayun Zaman
- Wajid Ali Khan Burki
- Jahangir Khan (cricketer)
- Majid Khan (cricketer)
- Babar Zaman
References
References
- Khattak, Sohail. (6 December 2011). "Ormuri: The silent victim of militancy".
- Yousafzai, Arshad. (1 July 2018). "Bringing Ormuri back from the dead".
- (25 March 2014). "Isolate language from the mountains of Waziristan faces extinction".
- Burki, Rozi. (12 July 2001). "Dying Languages; Special Focus on Ormuri".
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