Panni (Pashto: پاني) or Parni or Pannizai refers to a Pashtun tribe in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
History A number of Panni Pashtuns migrated from their homeland in the Koh-i-Suleiman and Balochistan to the Lodi Sultanate of Afghan king Bahlul Lodi.History of the Pathans Vol-III by Haroon Rashid, p. 92
During the time of Sultan Sher Shah Suri, the powerful Rohtas Fort of Bihar was garrisoned by 10,000 matchlock men with command entrusted on Ikhtiyar Khan Panni, one of the Amirs of the Sultan.Notes on Afghanistan and part of Baluchistan: geographical, ethnographical, and historica by Raverty, H. G. (Henry George), p. 640
The head of the eastern Afghan confederacy, Sultan Daud Karrani is known to have had Panni generals, who were Jahan Khan Panni and Jamal Khan Panni.Baharistan-i-Ghaibi, Bengal-Arakan relations, 1430-1666 A.D p. 147
Notable people Daud Khan Panni, a general of Emperor Aurangzeb
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