The Maska are a tribe of the Hazara people, found in Afghanistan and neighboring countries.

Maska is a sub-tribe of Jaghuri tribe of Hazaras in Afghanistan. For long times ago Maska and Babah were twin brothers and according to the old myth they were separated by knife. In Afghanistan their ancestral place is Sangi Masha in Jaghuri district of Ghazni province. They are considered the better-educated sub-tribe of Hazaras and have occupied important government positions in Afghanistan and Pakistan. After the Hazara war of independence in 1890, in which the Hazaras were defeated when all Sunni Muslims of Afghanistan joined hands with the kind Abdur Rehman under the fitwa (religious decree) that Hazaras were Shias and therefore killing them was justified, occupying their lands, enslaving them and looting their properties was in line with the Islamic injunctions, the hazaras had to leave their ancestral lands and had to flee to then India, Iran and central Asian states. A small number of Maskas along with other Hazara tribes settled in Quetta, the then British India and enlisted in the two battalions of Hazara Pioneers. When these two battalions were disbanded in 1933, some Hazaras, including Maskas, moved to an area between Meshad in Iran and Herat in Afghanistan. In 1938, the Maska living in Mashhad

Mashhad

Mashhad , is the second largest city in Iran and one of the holiest cities in the Shia Muslim world. It is also the only major Iranian city with an Arabic name. It is located east of Tehran, at the center of the Razavi Khorasan Province close to the borders of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. Its...

 migrated to Quetta

Quetta

is the largest city and the provincial capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan. Known as the "Fruit Garden of Pakistan" due to the diversity of its plant and animal wildlife, Quetta is home to the Hazarganji Chiltan National Park, which contains some of the rarest species of wildlife in the...

, then British India, now Pakistan.

Sub-branches of Maska

1. Aaka
2. Akhka
3. Aldiyaar
4. Alumbaig
5. Daama
6. Dada
7. Faquiro
8. Ikhtiar
9. Jamag
10. Mehtar
11. Naib
12. Nouta
13. Ourdu
14. Pashumbe
15. Rozee
16. Shadi
17. Shah Dost
18. Wakil
19. Yaree

Maska counsel of Quetta

• Haji Jan Ali (head councel)
• Haji Rajab Ali (President)
• This post is vaccant (Voice President)
• Abdul Wahid (General Secretary)

1. Haji Ahmed Ali Tawakkuli (Member)
2. Rehmat Ullah (Member)
3. Muhammad Sharif (Member)
4. Haji Habib (Member)
5. Abbas Ali (Member)
6. Abdul Hakim (Member)
7. Mulla Hassan (Member)
8. Haji Ewaz Ali (Member)
9. Sakhi Dad (Member)
10. Haji Nouroz Ali (Member)
11. Hussain Ali (Member)