Warraich (clan)

Warraich or Waraich is a Jat ethnic clan or tribe found in Pakistani Punjab and the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana.[1][2][3]

In Pakistan, this tribe or clan is mostly found in Gujrat District, Mandi Bahauddin District and Gujranwala Districts of Punjab, Pakistan.[4][5]

From the Gujrat District, the veteran and well-known political family of Chaudhry Zahoor Elahi Warraich (1917 - 1981), Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain Warraich, Chaudhry Parvez Elahi Warraich have been highly active in Pakistani politics and have held prominent positions in Provincial Assembly of Punjab including Chief Minister of Punjab (Pakistan), Senate of Pakistan and National Assembly of Pakistan.[6]

  1. ^ Andrew Wilder (1999). The Pakistani Voter, Electoral Politics and Voting Behavior in the Punjab. p. 178. ISBN 9780195790726. ...Chattha, Tarar, Virk, Warraich Jats...)
  2. ^ Jones, Philip E. (2003). The Pakistan People's Party: Rise to Power. p. 329. ISBN 978-0-19-579966-8. In the main, this area is dominated by strong, local Jat clans (...Chattha, Cheema, Tarar, Gondal and Waraich) that, in the past near-century, ...
  3. ^ Singh, Kumar Suresh (1996). "Appendix B". Communities, Segments, Synonyms, Surnames and Titles. People of India: National series. Vol. 8 (Illustrated ed.). Delhi: Anthropological Survey of India. pp. 1355–1357. ISBN 0-19-563357-1. OCLC 35662663.
  4. ^ Henry Samuel Price Davies (1892). Customary Law of the Gujrat District, Volume 9 of Punjab customary law (pages 2, 6, 8, 9 and 12). OCLC 1064764399.
  5. ^ "Mandi Bahauddin: a PML-PPP battleground (Warraich, Gondal, Chan and Mangat tribes)". Dawn newspaper. 23 August 2005. Archived from the original on 9 October 2024. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference SOP was invoked but never defined (see the help page).