Mengal
Ethnic Brahui tribe inhabiting Balochistan, Pakistan
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Mengal () is an ethnic Brahui tribe inhabiting Balochistan, Pakistan. It belongs to the Jhalawani branch of the Brahui tribes, and is bilingual in Brahui and Balochi.
Origins
According to the official list by Mir Ahmad Yar, the last Khan of Kalat, Mengal was originally one of the Jaṭṭ tribes inhabiting Balochistan. In the Balochi language, plurals of substantives and collective nouns are formed, generally, by adding the suffix "gal" to the noun itself, tribes like Jadgal, Kurdgal are formed in this manner, similarly the term Mengal (Meng-gal,) merely denotes the Meng (Ming, or Men, or Min) name of a tribe and the suffix "gal" means (Speech and group), thus meaning (the group of Mins).
Tribal area
The Mengal tribal area is around 70000 sqmi, stretching from the Helmand River in the North to Lasbela District in the south, and bordering on the province of Sindh to the east.
Prominent people
- Sardar Ataullah Mengal is a former Chief Minister of Balochistan. |url=http://dawn.com/weekly/dmag/archive/060212/dmag1.htm |title=Nothing but provincial autonomy |publisher=The DAWN Group of Newspapers |access-date=2009-03-25}}
- Sardar Akhtar Mengal is a former Chief Minister of Balochistan. |url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2404/stories/20070309000906400.htm |title=Taking on the State: Frontline March 09, 2007 |publisher=Hindunet |access-date=2008-11-25}}
- Mir Amir-ul-Mulk Mengal was Governor and Chief Justice of Balochistan. |url=http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusnews.asp?NewsID=66&sID=4 |title=Press briefing by the UN offices for Pakistan and Afghanistan |publisher=UN News Center |access-date=2009-03-25}}
- Mir Muhammad Naseer Mengal served as acting Chief Minister of Balochistan |url=http://www.senate.gov.pk/ShowMemberDetail.asp?MemberCode=442&CatCode=0&CatName= |title=Senators: Mir Muhammad Naseer Mengal |publisher=Pakistan Senate |access-date=2009-03-26}} and as Pakistan's acting Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Resources.
- Mir Nooruddin Mengal was a prominent politician of Balochistan. He was assassinated on 13 October 2010.
References
Bibliography
References
- Table 13 in {{harvp. Elfenbein. 1989
- Table 13 in {{harvp. Elfenbein. 1989
- Scholz, Fred. (2002). "Nomadism & colonialism : a hundred years of Baluchistan, 1872-1972". Oxford University Press.
- Table 13 in {{harvp. Elfenbein. 1989
- Tate, George Passman. (1912). "Seistan: A Memoir on the History, Topography, Ruins, and People of the Country, in Four Parts". Superintendent government printing.
- [http://www.bdd.sdnpk.org/district_listing.htm Balochistan Administrative Districts database] Planning and Development Department (P&DD) of the Government of Balochistan. Retrieved 25 November 2008
- "Daily Times - Latest Pakistan News, World, Business, Sports, Lifestyle".
- Sheikh, Irfan. (2010-10-14). "Senior Balochistan National Party leader shot dead".
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