Lali (tribe)
{{short description|Clan in Punjab, Pakistan}}
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The Lali, sometimes written as Lalee, are a Jat clan, found mainly in Chiniot District of Punjab, Pakistan.[https://books.google.com/books?id=33xmAAAAMAAJ&q=Lali+Jat Biographical Encyclopedia of Pakistan: Millennium 2000 (page 615)] Google Books website, Published 2001, Retrieved 18 May 2022{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/813877|newspaper=Dawn (newspaper)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305114952/https://www.dawn.com/news/813877 |archive-date=5 March 2017|title=As Pakistan goes to polls: Take a peek at some major NA constituencies (scroll down to NA-87 election results)|date=10 May 2013|access-date=18 May 2022|url-status=dead}} Wali Muhammad Lali from Lalian was the most powerful figure of history of Lali family.
History
The Lali are one of a number of Jat clans that have lived in the Kirana Bar for centuries.{{cite web|url=http://pportal.punjab.gov.pk/portal/portal/mediatype/html/group/310/page/default.psml/js_pane/P-104810448a5-10008?nav=left|archive-date=1 October 2011|date=17 July 2011|title=Jhang District|website=Punjab Gateway, Government of the Punjab website|url-status=dead |access-date=18 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001204358/http://pportal.punjab.gov.pk/portal/portal/mediatype/html/group/310/page/default.psml/js_pane/P-104810448a5-10008?nav=left}} The tribe has produced a famous Sufi saint, Mian Muhammad Siddique Lali, who has given them a status of sanctity among the other Bar tribes.{{cite journal | title=Desert Dwellers' Meaning and Existence of Spirituality: A Gendered Case Study of Cholistan, Pakistan | journal=Space and Culture, India | publisher=ACCB Publishing | volume=5 | issue=2 | year=2013 | issn=2052-8396 | doi=10.20896/saci.v5i2.278 | page=36| doi-access=free }} | quote= There is a small community of people called Lali belonging to Jat clans that lived for
Centuries as pastoral tribes. The desert dwellers seem to be treated as a centuries as pastoral tribes. It is believed that the Sufi saint Mian Muhammad Siddique Lali was one of them, therefore the tribe received a status amongst the tribes in Cholistan
Their traditional seat of power was the village of Kawenwala, but this was reduced to a petty chieftainship with the arrival of the British. This village has many people from Lali tribe even today. The Lalis also founded the town of Lalian, literally the place of the Lali, where many Lalis still live. Members of the clan have won many elections from the constituency around Lalian Tehsil which has made them politically strong in the area.
The Lalis also have a few settlements outside Chiniot District, for example in Sargodha District.
Notable people
- Ghulam Muhammad Lali, Member of National Assembly of Pakistan from Chiniot District, Punjab, Pakistan{{cite web|url=http://www.pildat.org/MNA/rsDetail.asp?detid=87|archive-date=27 April 2017|
archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427104338/http://www.pildat.org/MNA/rsDetail.asp?detid=87|access-date=18 May 2022|url-status=dead|website=PILDAT.org website|title=Ghulam Muhammad Lali profile}}
- Imtiaz Ahmad Lali, Member, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab (2013–2018){{cite web|title=Imtiaz Ahmad Lali profile|url=http://www.pap.gov.pk/index.php/members/profile/en/20/929|website=Provincial Assembly of the Punjab website|accessdate=18 May 2022}}
- Taimoor Ali Lali, Member, Provincial Assembly of the Punjab (2018 – present)
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