Kassar
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Kassar or Mughal KassarKassar or Mughal Kassar (Urdu: ( کسر / مغل قصر ) are a Mughal
tribe and one of the three major land-owning tribes in the Dhani country of Chakwal District
in Punjab
province, Pakistan
. They occupy the northern part of Dhani, called Babial and Chaupeda. In the Punjab settlement report of 1862, it is mentioned that they had come from Jammu along with the Mair-Minhas
tribe and had been settled in this area by the Mughal
Emperor, Zaheerudin Babur
. However, in Punjab census of 1881 they claimed that they themselves were of Mughal descent, and presented a family tree that connected their lineage with Babur in the 8th generation and showed their ancestor Kassar as a distant cousin of Babur. Hence, they claimed that they had come with Babur's army as his fellow tribesmen and were settled in Dhani along with the Mairs and Kahuts by the Emperor himself. Kassar tend to prefer their own caste for marriages but second priority goes to Mair Minhas and Kahout Quraish.
Kassars have no special ethnic belonging or places of worship, Most of them belongs to Ahle Sunnat while considerable number follows Shia Islam (Arabic: شيعة, Shīʿah), apart from these two major sects some of them follow AhleHadith School of thoughts. Diversity in their religious believes indicate their secular culture. Most of their customs and traditions are not different in any respect from those of the tribes surrounding them, except that the graves of women are distinguished by stone at the head and foot parallel to the breadth of the
grave, while other graves are parallel to the length .
Amir Timur
Gorgan>> Jalal-ul-din Sultan Miran Shah >> Ibrahim Qableen>> Mirza Taluchar>> Amir Wali Kandhari >> Baba Kassar>>
Towns in Chakwal dominated by the Kassar tribe include Fim Kassar, Farid Kassar, Balkassar
, Bhagwal, Karsal, Saral
, Miswall, Doray, Chauli
, Mangwal
, Dingi, Munwall, Bikhari Kalan, Sarkal Kassar, Dhok Peeli, Dhudial
, Tattral, Latifal, Dhalal, Hastal, Maari, Thoha Bahadur, and Lakhwal. Kasra in Attock District
is also an important Kassar village.
The first settlement of the Kassar tribe in Kashmir was made in Khalana (Muzafarabad); they then migrated to Poonch and other parts of Kashmir. Because of their first settlement in Khalana, they are also called “Qazian-e-Khalana” in Kashmir.
Kassar are also living in surrounding chaks (settlement areas) of Kotmomin vis-a-vis 10sb, 20sb, 9sb, 67sb, 65sb and 66sb Sargodha migrated from Dhani under the sponsorship of Alhaj Fateh Kahn Chaouli (Reader of Colony Commissioner Malcum Hailie).
Mughal (tribe)
The term Mughal is simply a Turkic word and many groups in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh use the term Mughal to describe themselves...
tribe and one of the three major land-owning tribes in the Dhani country of Chakwal District
Chakwal District
Chakwal is a district in the Punjab province of Pakistan. Chakwal district was created in 1985; until the year 2000 when divisions were abolished, it was part of Rawalpindi Division.-Administration:...
in Punjab
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...
province, 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...
. They occupy the northern part of Dhani, called Babial and Chaupeda. In the Punjab settlement report of 1862, it is mentioned that they had come from Jammu along with the Mair-Minhas
Minhas
Minhas or Manhas or Minhas-Dogra is a Suryavanshi Rajput clan from the Punjab region and Jammu & Kashmir in India and Pakistan. It is an off-shoot of Jamwal-Dogra Rajputs, the founders of the city and state of Jammu and its rulers from ancient times to 1948 CE...
tribe and had been settled in this area by the Mughal
Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire , or Mogul Empire in traditional English usage, was an imperial power from the Indian Subcontinent. The Mughal emperors were descendants of the Timurids...
Emperor, Zaheerudin Babur
Babur
Babur was a Muslim conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty of South Asia. He was a direct descendant of Timur through his father, and a descendant also of Genghis Khan through his mother...
. However, in Punjab census of 1881 they claimed that they themselves were of Mughal descent, and presented a family tree that connected their lineage with Babur in the 8th generation and showed their ancestor Kassar as a distant cousin of Babur. Hence, they claimed that they had come with Babur's army as his fellow tribesmen and were settled in Dhani along with the Mairs and Kahuts by the Emperor himself. Kassar tend to prefer their own caste for marriages but second priority goes to Mair Minhas and Kahout Quraish.
Kassars have no special ethnic belonging or places of worship, Most of them belongs to Ahle Sunnat while considerable number follows Shia Islam (Arabic: شيعة, Shīʿah), apart from these two major sects some of them follow AhleHadith School of thoughts. Diversity in their religious believes indicate their secular culture. Most of their customs and traditions are not different in any respect from those of the tribes surrounding them, except that the graves of women are distinguished by stone at the head and foot parallel to the breadth of the
grave, while other graves are parallel to the length .
Kassar ancestry
The family tree of Kassar tribes is as follows:Amir Timur
Timur
Timur , historically known as Tamerlane in English , was a 14th-century conqueror of West, South and Central Asia, and the founder of the Timurid dynasty in Central Asia, and great-great-grandfather of Babur, the founder of the Mughal Dynasty, which survived as the Mughal Empire in India until...
Gorgan>> Jalal-ul-din Sultan Miran Shah >> Ibrahim Qableen>> Mirza Taluchar>> Amir Wali Kandhari >> Baba Kassar>>
Area of distribution
The origin of the Kassar tribe is Chakwal District, where they have a significant presence throughout the region. Apart from Chakwal, they are also settled in Attock, Sargodha, Khoshab, Jehlum, Rawalpindi, Tehsil Sohawa, Badin (Sindh), Larkana (Sindh), Muzafar Abad (Kashmir), Ponch (Kashmir), and Cakothi (Kashmir).Towns in Chakwal dominated by the Kassar tribe include Fim Kassar, Farid Kassar, Balkassar
Balkassar
Balkassar is a village and union council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan It is part of Choa Saidanshah Tehsil. The village gets its name from the Kassar tribe, who also make up the bulk of the population...
, Bhagwal, Karsal, Saral
Saral
Saral is a village and union council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil. The village gets its name from the Sarral tribe of Rajputs, who still make up the majority of the population....
, Miswall, Doray, Chauli
Chawli
Chawli is a village in the District Chakwal Punjab province of Pakistan. It is located at 33°1'36N 72°34'1E with an altitude of 403 metres . Members of the Kassar tribe make up the bulk of the population. It is one of a cluster of villages such as Balkassar, Dhudial, Mangwal and Balokassar, which...
, Mangwal
Mangwal
Mangwal is a village and union council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil and is located at 33°6'30N 72°49'32E....
, Dingi, Munwall, Bikhari Kalan, Sarkal Kassar, Dhok Peeli, Dhudial
Dhudial
Dhudial is a village and union council, an administrative subdivision, of Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan, it is part of Chakwal Tehsil. It is one of the largest villages of Chakwal District and is located at 33°3'52N 72°58'24E about 70 km south of the capital Islamabad....
, Tattral, Latifal, Dhalal, Hastal, Maari, Thoha Bahadur, and Lakhwal. Kasra in Attock District
Attock District
Attock District is a district in the north-west Punjab Province of Pakistan.The district was created in April 1904 by the merger of Talagang Tehsil in the Jhelum District with the Pindigheb, Fatehjang and Attock tehsils from Rawalpindi District of the Punjab province of British India.Attock...
is also an important Kassar village.
The first settlement of the Kassar tribe in Kashmir was made in Khalana (Muzafarabad); they then migrated to Poonch and other parts of Kashmir. Because of their first settlement in Khalana, they are also called “Qazian-e-Khalana” in Kashmir.
Kassar are also living in surrounding chaks (settlement areas) of Kotmomin vis-a-vis 10sb, 20sb, 9sb, 67sb, 65sb and 66sb Sargodha migrated from Dhani under the sponsorship of Alhaj Fateh Kahn Chaouli (Reader of Colony Commissioner Malcum Hailie).
Clans
The clans (ذیلی اقوام) of the Kassar tribe are:- Bhagwal
- Dullah
- Chaouli
- Karsal
- Mehrou
- Haraj
- Latifal
- Mangwal
- Kuthiala Sheikhan
Notable personalities
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- Sardar Khuram Nawab Dullah, Member of Provincial AssemblyMember of Provincial AssemblyA Member of Provincial Assembly or MPA is an elected representative to one of the four provincial assemblies of Pakistan, which are:*The Provincial Assembly of Balochistan*The Provincial Assembly of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa...
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- Sardar Zulfiqar Khan Dullah ,famous social & political worker.
- Alhaj Fateh Kahn Chaouli (Reader of Colony Commissioner Malcum Hailie).
- Ch.Ahmed JawadAhmed JawadAhmed Jawad is a Chief Executive Officer of Harvest Tradings-Pakistan. He worked on different multi national banks in Middle East. His Vision to expand the exports of Perishable items as much as you can in order to make better GDP growth of the country and to make viable industry.He belongs from an...
, CEO, Harvest Tradings-Pakistan. - Ch. Muhammad Asghar, Executive Vice President, Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited.
- Ch. Rab Nawaz, (District Management GroupDistrict Management GroupDistrict Management Group or DMG, is an elite cadre of the Civil Service of Pakistan.Officers in this group are recruited through a competitive examination held once a year by the Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan...
), Secretary Irrigation, Government of Punjab, Pakistan. - Ch. Sarfraz Ahmad, Minister (Trade), Pakistan Consulate, JeddahJeddahJeddah, Jiddah, Jidda, or Jedda is a city located on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, the largest sea port on the Red Sea, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. The...
. - Ch. Muhammad Ajaib of Chakral Lieutenant CommanderLieutenant CommanderLieutenant Commander is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander...
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, former Naval Recruiting Officer . - Ch. Muhammad Ashraf of Janga Lieutenant CommanderLieutenant CommanderLieutenant Commander is a commissioned officer rank in many navies. The rank is superior to a lieutenant and subordinate to a commander...
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, former Supply Officer . - Ch. Khudadad Khan (R) AVMAir Vice-MarshalAir vice-marshal is a two-star air-officer rank which originated in and continues to be used by the Royal Air Force. The rank is also used by the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence and it is sometimes used as the English translation of an equivalent rank in...
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. - Ch. Mohammad Afzal (تمغہ شجاعت,تمغہ بسالت) of Dhalal, (R)Wing Commander Pakistan Air ForcePakistan Air ForceThe Pakistan Air Force is the leading air arm of the Pakistan Armed Forces and is primarily tasked with the aerial defence of Pakistan with a secondary role of providing air support to the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Navy. The PAF also has a tertiary role of providing strategic air transport...
,Ex-Chairman Pakistan International School, Riyadh. - Ch. Jawad Akram of Dhalal, (District Management GroupDistrict Management GroupDistrict Management Group or DMG, is an elite cadre of the Civil Service of Pakistan.Officers in this group are recruited through a competitive examination held once a year by the Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan...
), Deputy secretary (Cabinet) - Punjab, Former SHO, EDO Chakwal. - Ch. Muhammad Akram Khan, Technical Advisor (R), Engro CorporationEngro CorporationEngro Corporation is one of the leading Pakistani business conglomerates with stakes in the fertilizer, food, power generation, petrochemicals, automation and terminal storage industries...
. - Ch. Ehtasham Faisal (Dhalal), Senior Business Analyst, NOKIA Middle East .
- Ch. Mohammad Khan Sahab Bikharikalan, ex-Deputy Chief, Oil and Gas Development Company (OGDC) .
- Ch. Ghulam Ali Bikharikalan, former Chairman Attock RefineryAttock RefineryThe Attock Refinery Limited , is the pioneer in crude oil refining in the country with its operations dating back to the early nineteen hundreds. Attock Refinery located at Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan....
. - Ch. Muhammad Nawaz Khan (Latifal), former District Population Welfare Officer, Population Welfare Department.
- Ch. Javed Iqbal Mughal (Latifal), Ministry of Information Technology, E-Government Directorate.
- CH. Riasab Khan (Sangkalan) Former Sector Head, State Life Insurance Corporation of Pakistan.
- CH. Mumtaz Ahmed Mughal LLM (Civil Judge)