The Ormur (), also known as Burki or Baraki (), are an Eastern Iranic people mainly living in Baraki Barak in the Logar Province of Afghanistan, and in Kaniguram in the South Waziristan District and Peshawar (Ormur, Peshawar)Charles Kieffer, ORMURI, Encyclopædia Iranica in Pakistan. Today they generally identify as Pashtuns.
Language Ormuri is the first language of the Ormurs living in Kaniguram and its vicinity in South Waziristan, and in Baraki Barak. Today, the population is bilingual in the local Pashto dialect of Waziristani.
Notable people
Pir Roshan 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 Saleem Burki
References
Further reading
Turmoil on the Roof of the World, in Central Asia and the Caucuses in World Affairs, Hastings, 1993, pp. 1–5 Notes on the Ormur People, in St Petersburg Journal of Oriental Studies, vol. IV, St Petersburg, 1993, pp. 230–238