Hoti
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Hoti (Urdu: ہوتی ) Oothay (Pashto) is inhabited by the Kamalzai Pashtuns, a sub-tribe of the Yousafzai. Hoti is located in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. It is part of Mardan District, just west of Peshawar, the capital of the NWFP.
The people of this area speak Pashto as well as Hindko and adhere strongly to the Pashtun traditions of hospitality and loyalty.
Although the MPs are democratically elected in the NWFP, the old feudal system is still strong in Hoti. The head of the leading feudal family is Mohammad Ali Khan Hoti, ex-education minister of Pakistan. They are a well educated family and Mohammad Ali's grandson, Jaffar Khan, was the first Muslim President of the Cambridge Union.
The main source of livelihood for the Hoti tribe is agriculture and they process and export sugarcane to the rest of the country.
