ساپي Sāpī) is a Pashtun tribe situated mostly in Afghanistan with some in Pakistan.
[1] The exact population number of this clan is not known; however, it is estimated to be around 2.5 million both in Afghanistan and in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.
On 10 September 2007, Sapi elders in the Mohmand Agency played a key part in reaching an agreement with TTP fighters to stop attacks on the Pakistani military and security forces, and on institutions such as schools and hospitals in the Mohmand Agency.
According to a work published by Jeffrey H.P Evans-von Krbek at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Durham in 1977, the ancestry of the Sapi reaches back to the nomadic Parni.
[3] Currently, the Sapi tribe is well known for its resistance to the Taliban regime, and many fierce clashes have broken out between the two.