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3 unusual facts about Mir Jalal Khan


Lashar District

The name Lashar derives from the son of Mir Jalal Khan, Mir Lashar Khan, Ruler of the territory in the 12th Century.

Mir Jalal Khan

Rind had been appointed successor to the Phagh or Royal Turban by his father and proposed to perform the ceremonies and erect an asrokh or memorial canopy.

It seems probable that there were five principal gatherings of clans under well-known leaders, and that they became known by some nickname or descriptive epithet, such as the Rinds (‘chess’), the Hooths (‘warriors‘), the Lasharis (‘men of Lashar‘), etc., and that these names were afterwards transferred to their ostensible ancestors.



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