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Ranjha (clan)
The Ranjha are a Jat clan of Punjabis, found in Punjab region of Pakistan.They are found throughout District Mandi Bahauddin, Sargodha, Gujrat and Jhelum District.The clan is famous for producing Deedo Ranjha, the main character in the legend of Heer Ranjha. Notable people *Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjha *Khalid Ranjha *Chaudhry Imtiaz Ahmed Ranjha *Mian Manazir Hussain Ranjha See also *Heer Ranjha *Punjabi Muslims *Jat Muslim *List of Punjabi Muslims Punjabi Muslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مسلمان ) are adherents of Islam who are linguistically, culturally or genealogically Punjabis. Primarily geographically native to the Punjab province of Pakistan today, many have ancestry in the enti ... References *Ranjha (R) Jat clans Jat clans of Punjab Jat tribes Punjabi-language surnames Surnames of Pakistani origin Pakistani names {{Pakistan-ethno-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jat Muslims
Jat Muslim or Musalman Jats (; ), also spelled Jatt or Jutt (), are an elastic and diverse ethnoreligious subgroup of the Jat people, who follow Islam and are native to the northwestern Indian subcontinent. They are primarily found in Sindh and Pakistani Punjab. Some are also found in Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, where they are known as Muley Jats. The Jats began converting to Islam during the early medieval period, influenced by Sufis like Baba Farid. The conversion process was gradual. History The Jats were one of the first communities of the Subcontinent to interact with the Muslims. They were known as the ''Zuṭṭ'' (), although this term also referred to several other groups—such as the Sāyabija, Andāghar, and Qufs—not all of whom were necessarily ethnic Jats. The Zutt were originally from the Indus Valley, but had been settling in lower Iraq since the reign of Bahram V. Following the failed Zutt Rebellion, the Zutt lost their power and distinct identity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjha
Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjha (; born 22 July 1977) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 till August 2023. Previously, he was a member of the National Assembly from June 2013 to May 2018. He served as Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs, in Abbasi cabinet from October 2017 to May 2018. Early life He was born on 22 July 1977. He received his primary, and middle, education from the eminent Lawrence College, Ghora Gali, Murree, and later got admitted in Atchison College Lahore, Pakistan’s premier boarding school, for his secondary and higher secondary education. After the completion of his educational years at Atchison, Mr. Ranjha enrolled in Government College Lahore for his Bachelors, following which he secured admission in the illustrious University of London, United Kingdom, for his LLB Honours. Following his graduation from University of London, Mr. Ranjha was enrolled in the Bar Professional Training Program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjabi-language Surnames
Punjabi, sometimes spelled Panjabi, is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Punjab region of Pakistan and India. It is one of the most widely spoken native languages in the world, with approximately 150 million native speakers. Punjabi is the most widely-spoken first language in Pakistan, with 88.9 million native speakers according to the 2023 Pakistani census, and the 11th most widely-spoken in India, with 31.1 million native speakers, according to the 2011 Census of India, 2011 census. It is spoken among a Punjabi diaspora, significant overseas diaspora, particularly in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, Gulf states. In Pakistan, Punjabi is written using the Shahmukhi alphabet, based on the Persian alphabet, Perso-Arabic script; in India, it is written using the Gurmukhi, Gurmukhi alphabet, based on the Brahmic scripts, Indic scripts. Punjabi is unusual among the Indo-Aryan languages and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jat Tribes
The Jat people (, ), also spelt Jaat and Jatt, are a traditionally agricultural community in Northern India and Pakistan. Originally pastoralists in the lower Indus river-valley of Sindh, many Jats migrated north into the Punjab region in late medieval times, and subsequently into the Delhi Territory, northeastern Rajputana, and the western Gangetic Plain in the 17th and 18th centuries. Quote: "Hiuen Tsang gave the following account of a numerous pastoral-nomadic population in seventh-century Sin-ti (Sind): 'By the side of the river..f Sind along the flat marshy lowlands for some thousand li, there are several hundreds of thousands very great manyfamilies ..hichgive themselves exclusively to tending cattle and from this derive their livelihood. They have no masters, and whether men or women, have neither rich nor poor.' While they were left unnamed by the Chinese pilgrim, these same people of lower Sind were called Jats' or 'Jats of the wastes' by the Arab geographers. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Punjabi Muslims
Punjabi Muslims (Punjabi: پنجابی مسلمان ) are adherents of Islam who are linguistically, culturally or genealogically Punjabis. Primarily geographically native to the Punjab province of Pakistan today, many have ancestry in the entire Punjab region, split between India and Pakistan in the contemporary era. Artists * Allah Bakhsh (1895 – 1978) *Abdur Rahman Chughtai (1894–1975) *Ahmed Parvez (1926 – 1979) * Bashir Mirza (1941 – 2000) *Zubeida Agha (1922–1997) *Rashid Rana (born 1968) * Quddus Mirza (born 1961) Authors Punjabi Classical * Fariduddin Ganjshakar (1188–1266) * Shah Hussain (1539–1599) * Naushah Ganj Bakhsh (1552–1654) * Abdullah Lahori, (–) * Sultan Bahu (1630–1691) * Shah Sharaf (1640–1724) * Afarin Lahori ( – ) * Hafiz Barkhurdar Ranjha (17th century) * Bulleh Shah (1680–1757) * Ali Haider (1690–1785) * Lutf Ali (1716–1794) * Waris Shah (1722–1798) * Farad Faqir (1704/1720–1790) * Hashim (1735/1752–184 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jat Muslim
Jat Muslim or Musalman Jats (; ), also spelled Jatt or Jutt (), are an elastic and diverse ethnoreligious subgroup of the Jat people, who follow Islam and are native to the northwestern Indian subcontinent. They are primarily found in Sindh and Pakistani Punjab. Some are also found in Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh, where they are known as Muley Jats. The Jats began converting to Islam during the early medieval period, influenced by Sufis like Baba Farid. The conversion process was gradual. History The Jats were one of the first communities of the Subcontinent to interact with the Muslims. They were known as the ''Zuṭṭ'' (), although this term also referred to several other groups—such as the Sāyabija, Andāghar, and Qufs—not all of whom were necessarily ethnic Jats. The Zutt were originally from the Indus Valley, but had been settling in lower Iraq since the reign of Bahram V. Following the failed Zutt Rebellion, the Zutt lost their power and distinct i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punjabi Muslims
Punjabi Muslims are Punjabis who are adherents of Islam. With a population of more than 112 million, they are the third-largest predominantly Islam-adhering Muslims, Muslim ethnicity in the world, after Arab Muslims, Arabs and Bengali Muslims, Bengalis. The majority of Punjabi Muslims are adherents of Sunni Islam, while a minority adhere to Shia Islam. Most of them are primarily geographically native to the Pakistani province of Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, but a large group of them have ancestry across the Punjab, Punjab region as a whole. Punjabi Muslims speak or Identity (social science), identify with the Punjabi language (under a Arabic script, Perso-Arabic script known as Shahmukhi alphabet, Shahmukhi) as their First language, mother tongue. Identity The coalescence of the various tribes, castes and the inhabitants of the Punjab region into a broader common "Punjabi" identity initiated from the onset of the 16th century CE. However, Punjab as a linguistic, geographical and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mian Manazir Hussain Ranjha
Mian Manazir Hussain Ranjha (born 15 August 1954) is a Pakistani politician who was a Member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, between 1985 and May 2018 and from August 2018 to January 2023. Early life and education He was born on 15 August 1954 in Sargodha District. He has the degree of Bachelor of Arts and the degree of Bachelor of Laws which he obtained in 1977 from University of the Punjab. Political career He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab from Constituency PP-66 (Sargodha) in the 1985 Pakistani general election. During his tenure as member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, he served as Deputy Speaker of the Punjab Assembly from 1985 to 1988. He was re-elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab as a candidate of Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) from Constituency PP-29 (Sargodha) in the 1990 Pakistani general election. During his tenure as member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, he again served as Deputy Speaker of the Pun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaudhry Imtiaz Ahmed Ranjha
Chaudhry Imtiaz Ahmed Ranjha (; born 1958) is a Pakistani politician. He was born in Mandi Bahauddin in Punjab, the son of Chaudhry Sultan Ahmad. He received his Intermediate from Mandi Bahauddin. He is Senior Vice President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. He is an agriculturist, and was as a member of District Council in 1983, 1991 and 1993. He was elected to the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab in 1997, and as a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) of the Punjab from PP-101 in 1997 till 1999. He has served as a Chairman Public Complaint Bureau with former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Shaukat Aziz (born 6 March 1949) is a Pakistani-born British former banker who served as the 15th prime minister of Pakistan from 28 August 2004 to 15 November 2007. When his term as Prime Minister was over, he immediately left Pakistan and se ... from 2004 to 2007. From May 2012 to March 2013 he has served as a Political Advisor to Prime Minister of Pakistan. During his tenure as MPA, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
