Umarzai
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Umarzai or Omarzai (descendants of Umar or Omar
Umar
`Umar ibn al-Khattāb c. 2 November , was a leading companion and adviser to the Islamic prophet Muhammad who later became the second Muslim Caliph after Muhammad's death....

) is a relatively small Pashtun
Pashtun people
Pashtuns or Pathans , also known as ethnic Afghans , are an Eastern Iranic ethnic group with populations primarily between the Hindu Kush mountains in Afghanistan and the Indus River in Pakistan...

 tribe in 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...

. A large group used to live in Jaranwala
Jaranwala
Jaranwala is a city in the Faisalabad District of Punjab, Pakistan. It is located at 31°20'0N 73°26'0E with an altitude of 184 meters .It is 35KM south east from Faisalabad and 110 km from Lahore...

, Pakistan and Nakuru
Nakuru
Nakuru, the provincial capital of Kenya's Rift Valley province, with roughly 300,000 inhabitants, and currently the fourth largest urban centre in the country, lies about 1850 m above sea level...

, Kenya
Kenya
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but now most reside in Chacch . A few still reside in Jaranwala, but all the members from Nakuru have now left. The Umarzais are the richest tribe in Chacch. They are known to control most of the land in in Malak mala, the biggest village in Chacch. The Umarzais are brothers to Yusufzais. They speak Pukhtu and Hindko, as well as Urdu.

It is situated in Charsadda , Khyber Packston khwa. Rahim Gul Kaly is a small village in it having a population of about 1000. The people are very hard working and almost are Pakhtoons. The literacy rate is about 35%.
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