Jati Umra is a small

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

located approximately from

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city in the

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of the

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History

Jati Umra is notable for being the ancestral village of

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, also including the former

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Nawaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who served as the 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms, first serving from 1990 to 1993, then ...

. Pakistan's well-known businessman,

Muhammad Sharif Mian Muhammad Sharif (Punjabi language, Punjabi, , 18 November 1919 – 19 October 2004) was a Pakistani businessman who is known as the co-founder of Ittefaq Group and founder of Sharif Group. from one of the biggest political parties of the ...

, the co-founder of

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and founder of Sharif Group, belonged to Jati Umra. He left India and moved to Pakistan in 1947. Two of his three sons,

Nawaz Nawaz (; transliterations vary) may refer to: Given name * Gharib Nawaz (1143–1236), Indian Sufi saint * Bande Nawaz (1321–1422), Indian Sufi saint * Gharib Niwaz Pamheiba (1690–1751), King of Manipur * Samsam ud Daula Shah Nawaz Khan (170 ...

and Shehbaz later became the Prime Ministers of Pakistan. In December 2013, the then Chief Minister of Punjab,

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, during his visit to India, went to the grave of his great-grandfather Mian Mohammad Baksh at the village and offered a holy sheet. Mian Muhammad Sharif, the former head of Sharif family, had lived in Indian Jati Umra before migrating to

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in 1947.

References

Villages in Tarn Taran district Sharif family {{Tarn Taran district