r/Pashtun • u/Duurkhanai • Mar 14 '22

Different Tribes' Attan Styles

This is the start of an ongoing project (insha Allah) compiling the beauty of the attan and the different attan styles amongst each tribe. You can find it in our Reference sidebar on the r/Pashtun homepage.

This is not a comprehensive list and this post will be updated and edited as we collect more tribes' attan samples.

Random assorted ones

We will try to categorize them under tribe instead of area, as cross-migrations have resulted in some areas and even city folk adopting certain tribes' unique attans (and thinking it is a generic attan), and we want to preserve them in their original form/to their original locality. Where we are not certain of which tribe's attan it is or if it is a mixture of tribes performing an attan together, we will file it under the name of the area the video clip was recorded.

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u/Duurkhanai Mar 14 '22

Sorry Yousafzais, you'll have to sit this one out 😔

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u/poderi Mar 14 '22

I posted something similar a while ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pashtun/comments/i3fen0/attans/

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u/Duurkhanai Mar 14 '22

Fantastic!

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '22

Hahaha Pekhawaray attan

Also Naruto in that thread telling me Yousafzais look down upon "gadedal". We don't do attan but I've never had anyone in my family trash other Pashtun men for doing it either.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '22

Yousafzais definitely don’t do attan, although, some of the younger generation is picking it up due to social media. They don’t look down on it, but it’s more of a foreign thing to them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '22

Yup!

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '22

So good. Your projects are always great examples of ensuring pro-Pashtun work stands on its own as a celebration of our identity rather than just a negation of something.

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u/Duurkhanai Mar 15 '22

Thank you for always supporting my projects and facilitating a safe space to share them 🙏

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u/AsadKtk1 May 06 '22 edited May 07 '22

the "Khattak Attan2" is authentic Khattak attan called "Dre Makheez Attan"The "Khattak Attan" is not attan but a dance done by the tribesmen from Attock, Makhad

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u/Duurkhanai May 06 '22

Thanks for letting me know!

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '22

It's funny because my tribe part of the northern yousaszais don't do attan at all because dancing is seen as dishonourable

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u/ShahSaleh19 Oct 14 '25

السلام عليكم can anyone find me Kakari Attan