The Shaghasi are, alongside the Seraj and Telai, a prominent and powerful cadet-branch of the Afghan royal family.

They belong to the Zirak branch of the Durrani confederacy, and are primarily centered around Kandahar.

His father, Bazar Khan Barakzai was a local Barakzai chief, and his grandfather was Sardar Yasin Khan Omar Khanzai (Barakzai), resident of Maruf District (at that time part of Arghistan District) of Kandahar, and one of the notable Sardars of Kandahar during the reigns of Timur Shah Durrani[2][4] and brother to Muhammad of the Mohammadzai.

[5] To the Shaghasi Khel is related King Amanullah Khan's mother Queen Sarwar Sultana Begum, Siraj ul-Khwatin, the Aliya Hazrat (b. at Kabul, 1875; d. at Istanbul, Turkey, 1965), eldest daughter of Loinab Sher Dil Khan Shaghasi, by his third wife, Benazir Begum, a lady form the Popalzai clan.

[6][7][8] Promenant rulers of Afghanistan descending from the chiefs of the Barakzai tribe belonging to the Shaghasi, descendants of Sardar Yasin Khan Omar Khanzai (Barakzai), resident and one of the notable Sardars of Kandahar during the reigns of Timur Shah Durrani[2][4]