page_title: Ghilji
section_title: Contemporary period
hierarchical_section_title: Ghilji / History / Contemporary period
caption_attribution_description: English: “Najibullah giving decorations”. Najibullah (left), general secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, giving decoration to a Soviet serviceman Русский: «Наджиб вручает награды». Генеральный секретарь ЦК НДПА Наджибулла (слева) вручает советскому воину награду ДРА. Афганистан
context_page_description: The Ghiljī also spelled Khilji, Khalji, Ghilzai or Ghilzay, are one of the largest tribes of Pashtuns. Their traditional homeland stretches from Ghazni and Qalati Ghilji in Afghanistan eastwards into parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan in Pakistan. They are also settled in other parts of Afghanistan. The modern nomadic Kochi people mostly belong to the Ghilji tribe.
  The Ghilji mostly speak the central dialect of Pashto with transitional features between the southern and northern varieties.
context_section_description: More recently, the current Afghan president Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (2014–present) and the former Afghan president Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai (1987–1992) belong to the Ahmadzai branch of the Ghilji tribe.
  Two other former Afghan presidents, Nur Muhammad Taraki (1978–1979) and Hafizullah Amin (1979), belonged to the Tarakai and Kharoti branches of the Ghilji tribe, respectively.
caption: Mohammad Najibullah, belonging to the Ghilji tribe, was a former Afghan president (1987–1992)
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