Changa Bangial
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Changa Bangial is a town and Union Council
Union Councils of Pakistan
A sherwan or village council in Pakistan is an elected local government body consisting of 21 councillors, and headed by a nazim and a naib nazim...

, an administrative subdivision, of Gujar Khan Tehsil
Gujar Khan Tehsil
Gujar Khan Tehsil, head-quartered at Gujar Khan, is one of the seven Tehsils of Rawalpindi District in the Punjab province of Pakistan...

 in the Punjab Province
Punjab (Pakistan)
Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...

 of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

.

Location

It is the collective name of 17 Dhoks (settlements) with distinctive names, such as Bharole, Dhanda, Sabbar and Changa Maira. It is about seven miles from the tehsil capital Gujar Khan
Gujar Khan
Gujar Khan is a city in Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is the headquarters of Gujar Khan Tehsil, the largest tehsil of Punjab. It is approximately 55 kilometres southeast of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan and 220 km to the north west of Lahore, capital of Punjab...

 midway on the road to Kallar Syedan and is located at 33°19'60N 73°19'60E. The area it occupies is quite extensive.

Mauza Daryal is a cluster of four smaller villages ( Mohra peeru wala, Dohok Chohan, Morha Bajnial and Morha Daryal) on the northern edge of the Union Council.

Demography

The number of its population is estimated to be 10,000 persons.

The principal clan is the Bangial
Bangial
The Bangial, or sometime spelt Bangyal are a tribe of Rajputs found principally in the Potohar region of Punjab, Pakistan. They also to be a found in the Jhelum, Gujrat and Gujranwala districts of the Punjab.-History and origins:...

, also known as Baghial
Baghial
The Baghial are a Rajput tribe of Punjab, Pakistan. The tribe is found chiefly in the Rawalpindi District, where they occupy five villages in the Gujar Khan Tehsil. They also to be a found in the Jhelum, Gujrat and Gujranwala districts of the Punjab and Mirpur and Kotli Districts of Azad Kashmir...

. They claim their founding ancestor is one Bangash Khan, he gave the town its name. They are classed as a branch of the Panwar
Paramara
Paramara is a Maratha, Gurjar,& Rajput clan of India.The Paramara clan belongs to the Agnivansha of Rajputs ancient Kshatriyas...

 Rajputs.
A large community of its residents reside in UK, middle east and other countries of Europe.

People

The best known son of Changa Bangial was Maulavi Muhammad Fazal Khan (1868-1938), who translated "Futuhat Makkiyya" by Ibn Arabi into Urdu.
His Biography can be down loaded as a PDF-File from the following site: http://www.qarchives.com/misc/Fazal.pdf

His book "Asrar-e Shari'at" (Part One and Part Two) may be read on-line at the following links.

Also his grandson Dr. Muniruddin Ahmad is a famous writer, whose autobiography (Dhalte Saaye)is available from the following site: http://www.qarchives.com/misc/Munir1.pdf
Mohammed Aamir (current Pakistani International cricketer)
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