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Monday, May 10, 2010

Magsi Tribe


Magsi (Urdu: مگسی) is a name of Baloch tribe in the Balochistan, Punjab and Sindh provinces of Pakistan and Balochistan province of Iran.


History

The Magsi tribe came from Iran where is place name is Magas in Lishar. They migrated to modern Pakistan with Lashari and Rind tribes that is the reason some historians called them branch of Lashari tribe. The origin of Magsi are also related to Jamots. In Balochistan province of Iranthey are known Magsi Baloch. In Sindh they are considered Sindhi Baloch. In northern Punjab they speak Punjabi while southern Punjab they speak Seraiki. Most of the Magsi tribe is settled in Jhal Magsi District. The clans of Magsi tribe include: Buhtani and Shambani. The Butani is the Nawab family. Shambai is Tumandar (chief Makhdoom). The clans of Shambani are: Vasdani, Salokhani, Muglani, Laskani, Bungulani,Sargani etc. Nowadays Magsi tribe Nawab is Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Khan Magsi. He is from Butani family and Tumandar is Mir Mousa Khan Magsi. He belong from Shambani family and then Hesbani, which includes Berkani and then Anglani. Mir Jangi Khan Magsi Baloch was their leader.Mir Ghulam Qadir Magsi is also their leader and Mir Taj Muhammad Magsi was also their leader (they are great fighters of Magsi tribe in their time). Shambani, Balwani, Bujerani, Dalkhani.MIR HASSAN KHAN MAGSIANDMIR AYAZ KHAN MAGSI BALOCH, Nindani, Bojani, Rawtani,Sobhani, Safrani, Sakhani, Salokhani, Soomrani[karozie] and Admani. They speak the Sindhi and Balochi languages. Another Magsi sub-tribe has been living in Sindh since 200 years known as Karozai, where Mithani, Rakhyani, Dangrani, Faujani and Hyderani are sub-castes of Karozai. Almost 70 percent of Karozai are educated and used to live in peace and prosperity, where as they are followers of Sufism. Abdul Ghani Magsi & Abdul Majeed Magsi are their current leaders and Beera Khan Magsi was also their leader and great fighter against injustice.


Buhtani is a clan of Magsi tribe. Buhtani are well educated, distance between Shambani village and Jhal Magsi city is 60km and they are very close to Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Khan Magsi. SHAMBANI are well educated, telented and brave. now day shambani peoples are working in pakistan at different field.

A large number of Magsis are living in the Pakistani province of Punjab. Their communities can be found in the districts of, Muzzaffar Garh,Layyah, Khanewal, Lodhran, Raheemyar khan and Multan.

[edit]Magsi Force

In 1988, President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq died in an air crash and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's daughter Benazir Bhutto was elected as Prime Minister. Benazir Bhutto's government decided to replace the Hur Force with a new force called Magsi Force, consisting of militants from the tribe of Mir Nadir Ali Magsi, a rival of Hurs. Benazir Bhutto encouraged and supported clash between forces and after bloody clashes the Hur Force was weakened substantially. In this Force a brave solder Mr. Khaliq Magsi is Shaheed fighting with terrorists, he was real hero of Shambanis.

The Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi is the current chief of Magsi tribe, and he is now governor of Balochistan. n nawab qaisar khan magsi is the son of mir ghulam murtaza magsi he is very brave guy and now he is 16 years and he also feature nawab of heesbani

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