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Pakistani surnames are divided into three categories: Islamic naming convention, cultural names and ancestral names. In Pakistan a person is either referred by his or her Islamic name or from tribe name (if it is specified), respectively.
Zaheer-ul-Islam, (Urdu: ﻇﻬﻴﺮ ﺍﻹﺳﻼﻡ) is a retired Lieutenant-General who served as the 20th Director General of the ISI. Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, Islamic scholar; Amir Khan, British-Pakistani boxer, his paternal grandfather Lal Khan Janjua was in the Pakistan Army
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Most Sindhi tribes, clans and surnames are a modified form of a patronymic and typically end with the suffix - ani, Ja/Jo, or Potra/Pota, which is used to denote descent from a common male ancestor. One explanation states that the -ani suffix is a Sindhi variant of 'anshi', derived from the Sanskrit word 'ansh', which means 'descended from'.
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This is a list of Punjabi tribes. More specifically, these are tribes (mostly in Pakistan ) and castes (mostly in India ) located within the Punjab region of South Asia , including those that may not be officially recognized by state governments.
The Paracha caste is traditionally believed to descend from the lineage of Hazrat Ali Yemeni in Arabia, [1] who is said to have converted to Islam during the early days of the faith in the 7th century CE. It is commonly suggested that the tribe migrated with Yemeni into Persia, where the Parachas [2] became established as traders. Over time ...