Mullazai
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Mullazai is a 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...

 village 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...

 situated in southern part of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa near Tank District
Tank District
Tank , is the southern district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, the city of Tank is the capital of the district, which consists Union Council City I and Union Council City II. There are totally sixteen Union councils of district Tank. Tank was formerly part of district Dera Ismail...

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Mullazai, also known as Malazai or Malay zai or Mali Zai, is a Pashtun Marwat
Marwat
Marwat مروت, refers to a Pashtun tribe, located primarily in Lakki Marwat District in the south of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan as well the districts of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan...

 village.

Geography

Mullazai is situated at 32.413489°N 70.465826°E, at an altitude of 255 m (839 ft) and is situated to the north-west of the Indus River
Indus River
The Indus River is a major river which flows through Pakistan. It also has courses through China and India.Originating in the Tibetan plateau of western China in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar in Tibet Autonomous Region, the river runs a course through the Ladakh district of Jammu and Kashmir and...

 and close to the District of Tank. At a distance of 200 miles from Peshawar
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....

 and about 40 miles from the city of Tank, Pakistan, which is the capital for most of the tribes. Mullazai is hot and humid in summers, when the temperature in Mullazai can reach 110-120 °F

Origin

The people of Mullazai are known as Marwat
Marwat
Marwat مروت, refers to a Pashtun tribe, located primarily in Lakki Marwat District in the south of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan as well the districts of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan...

s. Mala Zai (or Mali Zai) was the second son of Nona
Nona
Nona may refer to:* nona-, a prefix meaning nine* Nona , a Roman goddess* Hurricane Nona, a hurricane during the 1994 Pacific hurricane season-Places:* the Latin name of Nin, Croatia* Tor di Nona, a small area in Rome's Rione V called "Ponte"...

, who was the third son of Marwat

Clans of the village include Khwaji Khel, Nazar Khel and Haji Khel
Haji Khel
Haji Khel is a town located at at 2,117 m altitude in the northern part of Ab Band district, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan and is the capital of the district....

. These are the direct descendents of Malazai (Malay zai), through Khadar the grandson of Nona. Other clans like Sain Khel, (Pehlawan Khel), Salmanzai and Jang-e-khel claim to be Marwats but are disputed by historians.. Most of them are ethnic minorities migrated and settled in Mullazai during times.. The most notable (late) LT COL.SARFARAZ KHAN,icon of village,was awarded the title of GHAZ-E-KASHMIR and was nominated as a member FEDERAL COUNCIL MAJLIS-SHOORA in year 1980 by the General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Who fought gallantly during the Second World War against the Nazis in the 1940s.

Economy

The villagers are mainly farmers, engineers,field workers, teachers, doctors and in the Army.
Agriculture is dependent on rains and tube well
Tube well
A tube well is a type of water well in which a long 100–200 mm wide stainless steel tube or pipe is bored into the underground aquifer. The lower end is fitted with a strainer, and a pump at the top lifts water for irrigation...

s. Many people from this village also work as contractors in the United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates, abbreviated as the UAE, or shortened to "the Emirates", is a state situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Western Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman, and Saudi Arabia, and sharing sea borders with Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Iran.The UAE is a...

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Education

There are institutions from primary to high school level.
There is one High School for boys and one for girls. Every year students pass their examinations and continue further studies outside the Tank District for procuring better and updated knowledge.Land Lord late Col Sarfaraz Khan donated his land for girls high school and primary school to promote education.

People

The head of the family is the father/elder who administers day to day family administration. He has the highest power over his family

The game of Maila
Maila
Maila is a town and municipality in Humla District in the Karnali Zone of north-western Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3095 persons living in 590 individual households.-External links:*...

 is popular here, in which three people from one village fight the three people of other village: they stand on one leg during fighting and try to topple the opponent. When the game is over, the winning villagers light fires and dance 'til late night.

Jirga
Jirga
A jirga is a tribal assembly of elders which takes decisions by consensus, particularly among the Pashtun people but also in other ethnic groups near them; they are most common in Afghanistan and among the Pashtuns in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan...

 by definition means Council. These are the religious circles and a group of people that decide the fate of the dwellers and rule the people by their sets of laws and principles. If any of the villagers die, not only relatives but all the adult villagers man and woman go to the bereaved family and spent the whole night reciting the Holy Quran for the affected family. To console the breaved family after the dead are buried, they stay with them for three consecutive nights and render help to the bereaved family as much as possible and pray for the deceased person.

External links

  • http://www.statpak.gov.pk/depts/pco/statistics/admin_unit/admin_list_tehsil.html
  • Mullazai map
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