Mengal () is an ethnic Brahui tribe inhabiting

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. It belongs to the Jhalawani branch of the Brahui tribes, and is bilingual in Brahui and Balochi.

Origins

According to the official list by Mir Ahmad Yar, the last Khan of Kalat, Mengal was originally one of the Jaṭṭ tribes inhabiting Balochistan. In the Balochi language, plurals of substantives and collective nouns are formed, generally, by adding the suffix "gal" to the noun itself, tribes like Jadgal, Kurdgal are formed in this manner, similarly the term Mengal (Meng-gal,) merely denotes the Meng (Ming, or Men, or Min) name of a tribe and the suffix "gal" means (Speech and group), thus meaning (the group of Mins).

Tribal area

The Mengal tribal area is around , stretching from the

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in the North to

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in the south, and bordering on the province of

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to the east.

Prominent people

* Sardar Ataullah Mengal is a former

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. * Sardar Akhtar Mengal is a former

. * Mir Amir-ul-Mulk Mengal was

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and Chief Justice of Balochistan. *Mir Muhammad Naseer Mengal served as acting

and as Pakistan's acting

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for

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and

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. * Mir Nooruddin Mengal was a prominent politician of

. He was assassinated on 13 October 2010.

References

Bibliography

* {{Brahui tribes Baloch tribes Brahui tribes Social groups of Balochistan, Pakistan