Chak 128 NB is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 situated on the Sillanwali

Sillanwali

Sillanwali is a town of Sargodha District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The town has recently been made tehsil headquarters with the creation of Sillanwali Tehsil...

 to Farooqa Road in Sillanwali Tehsil

Sillanwali Tehsil

Sillanwali Tehsil is a subdivision of Sargodha District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is administratively subdivided into 16 Union Councils. The tehsil's headquarters are situated in the town of Sillanwali.-References:...

 of the Sargodha District

Sargodha District

Sargodha District is a district of Punjab province, Pakistan, the capital of the district is Sargodha. It is an agricultural district, wheat, rice, and sugarcane being its main crops. The Sargodha district and region are also famous for citrus fruit; kino is a newly developed variety...

 in Punjab, Pakistan. Its neighbouring villages are Chak 130 NB, Chak No. 129 NB

Chak No. 129 NB

Chak No.129 N.B. is a village of Sillanwali Tehsil in Sargodha District, Punjab, Pakistan. It was established by the British Government of India about 1900, it is a well planned village about 35 km away from Sargodha city southward and 3 km from its Tehsil Headquarters Sillanwali at...

, Chak 125 NB and Jahanawala

Jahanawala

Jahanawala is a small village in Punjab, Pakistan....

. The village is mainly an agricultural area. The nearest city is Sillanwali

Sillanwali

Sillanwali is a town of Sargodha District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The town has recently been made tehsil headquarters with the creation of Sillanwali Tehsil...

, which is also the Tehsil

Tehsil

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 headquarters and nearest police station.

History

In the 19th Century, as part of a grand engineering programme, the British

United Kingdom

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 Imperial authorities built a huge network of irrigation

Irrigation

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 canal

Canal

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s to settle what was then a piece of scrubland known as the Kirana Bar

Kirana Bar

Kirana Bar is a portion of the Chej Doáb, it takes its name from the Kirana Hills found here. The hills are not, as generally supposed, outliers of the Salt Range This region is divided between the Sargodha and Jhang districts of Punjab, Pakistan...

. Villages were built along canals, and given numbers. So Chak 128 means village number 128 and NB means North Branch canal. So the name of the village basically means 128th village number on the North (Shumali) Branch canal.

Tribes & Clans

Most of the villagers are indigenous to the region, unlike other colony villages, where settlers were brought from other parts of the Punjab. The exception are a community of Mirpuri

Mirpuri

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s, originally from Azad Kashmir

Azad Kashmir

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. The locals refer to them as Mangla Dami (builders of the Mangla Dam

Mangla Dam

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).

The rest of the population belongs to various Kirana Bar

Kirana Bar

Kirana Bar is a portion of the Chej Doáb, it takes its name from the Kirana Hills found here. The hills are not, as generally supposed, outliers of the Salt Range This region is divided between the Sargodha and Jhang districts of Punjab, Pakistan...

 tribes, such as the Moand, Kalyar

Kalyar

The Kalyar is a prominent Punjabi tribe in Pakistan, found among both the Rajputs and Jats communities.- Origin :According to their traditions, the tribe claims descent from a Bhatti Rajput nobleman, a Rana Rajwadhan. The Rana lived in Ghazni, and then moved to Delhi in India. After sometime, he...

, Khichi

Khichi

Khichi is a Chauhan Rajput clan.-History and origin:Khichi is the name of a branch of the Chauhan clan of Agnivanshi rajputs. The Rajput Chauhan kingdom became the leading Rajput state and a powerful kingdom in Northern India under King Prithviraj III , also known as Prithviraj Chauhan or Rai...

, Khokhar

Khokhar

The Khokhar or Khokar are a people of Punjab region of Pakistan and north-western India. According to H. A. Rose they are the gotra of Rajput, Jat, Arain, Nai, and Churah. According to Denzil Ibbetson, they are also a gotra of the Tarkhan and Khatri tribes. The Khokhars were designated as an...

 etc. While laborers have settled from the adjoining areas of Jhang District

Jhang District

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. Many belong to the Muslim Shaikh

Muslim Shaikh

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 community.

Schools

The village also has a Boy's Primary School and Girl's Primary school. Mian Abdul Wahid is the headmaster of this school.

Agriculture

The village relies primarily on agriculture, which the main crops being wheat

Wheat

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, sugar cane, cotton

Cotton

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, pulses, rice

Rice

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 and citrus

Citrus

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.

Religion & Shrines

There are three mosques in the village.
All the residents are followers of the Sunni sect. Many are the murid (followers) of the Sufi saint

Saint

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 Pir Sial Lajpal of Sial Sharif and of Hazrat Sultan Bahoo (Rahmatuuallah alah).

There is Darbar of "Hazrat Syed Chan Pir". He was a mureed from Hazrat Hyder Shah of Jalalpur Sharif

Jalalpur Sharif

Jalalpur Sharif is a small town located in Jhelum, and is a Union Council of Pind Dadan Khan Tehsil in Jhelum District, Punjab province, Pakistan...

. Many people and murid come to the darbar. There are some personalities of the village buried here, such as Baba Jalal Khichi, Baba Nadir Kalyar Hazrat Molan Muhammad Abdullah Sialvi and khan muhammad khichi