Yousafzai is one of the largest Pashtun tribal confederations. The majority of the Yusufzai reside in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan and in Afghanistan.The Yusufzai are the predominant population in the districts of Swat, Mardan, Malakand, Tor Ghar, Upper Dir, Lower Dir, Swabi, Buner and Shangla in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
Across the Durand line, the Yusufzai also inhabit the Kunar, Nangarhar, Kondus, Laghman, Paghman, and Kabul provinces of Afghanistan. In Balochistan, there is also a Yusufzai clan of the Dehwar tribe in the Mastung District which speak Brahui, and Persian with some mixture of Brahui words.The Yusufzai originated in the Kandahar area of Afghanistan, and migrated to the Kabul area later on. In the early 16th century, the Yuzufzai were expelled from Kabul by Governor Ulugh Beg Mirza, who was a paternal uncle of the Mughal Emperor Babur. Then the Yuzufzai migrated eastwards to the Peshawar area, all which had already been colonized by other tribes of the Afghans previously, most notably the Dilazaks from whom the Yusufzai sought help. The first Mughal Emperor Babur attacked the Yusufzai several times but was defeated every time. In order to acquire a safe passage for him and his armies to cross the Yusufzai territory and invade the capital of the Afghan Lodi Empire in Delhi, India, Babur married Mubarika Yusufzai, the daughter of the Yusufzai chief Shah Mansur Yusufzai, on January 20, 1519.Afterwards, the Mughal Empire invaded the Yusufzai several times, but the Yusufzai refused submission to their authority...!!
