Panni or Parni refers to a Pashtun tribe in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Who claim descent from the ancient nomadic Eastern Iranian Parni tribe.
Most of them are settled in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, such as Southern border of Turkmenistan, Badghis, Faryab, Ghor, Herat, Kandahar, Karachi, Quetta, Musakhail, Dera Ismail Khan, Mardan, Peshawar, Haripur,Abbottabad,Kabul, Tank, Kohat, Sibi, Zhob all the way to Bangladesh.
After ending of Lodi dynasty, they scattered and migrated to various parts of the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East.
[1] The famous sub tribes of Panni are Barozai, Marghazani, Safi, Jadoon, Dehpal and Mizri Parni have also believed to eb descendants of Parthians !