The Barr are a powerful Baloch tribe in Panjgur

Panjgur

Panjgur is a small town in Panjgur District, Balochistan, Pakistan. It is located at 26°58'0N 64°5'60E-References:...

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Balochistan (Pakistan)

Balochistan is one of the four provinces or federating units of Pakistan. With an area of 134,051 mi2 or , it is the largest province of Pakistan, constituting approximately 44% of the total land mass of Pakistan. According to the 1998 population census, Balochistan had a population of...

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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...

, who trace their ancestry to the Bedouins.

History and origin

Crossing the Gulf of Oman they assert that they settled in the valley of pishin Iran to the west of mand, where they are still to be found in large numbers and known as Barr-o-Buledai owing to intermarriages with the buledais.The Barr originally being a nomads tribe, always migrating, thus extended all over.Barr recently settled on the strip consisting upon Pak-Iran border towards Pasni & Kullanch region. A part of the tribe afterward migrated to Panjgur and settled in the villages of Bonistan, Pullabad, Soren, Parom, Makkad and Patandar, where then the Gichki Sardar assigned them the Kucha of Kohbun, and their Kauda (the title given to the tribe leader) Kauda Mohammad Khan eventually became one of the leading men of the locality, he enjoyed so much influence that he was made Naib of Panjgur after the removal of Sardar Mohammad Ali Khan Gichki. The present Kauda is connected with most of the leading baloch families in Panjgur. They also practice some dry crop cultivation in Kohbun and their Kauda owns irrigated property in Bonistan, Issai, Tasp, Gramkan and Chitkan.