Kashmiri Shaikh mainly live in Kashmir

Kashmir

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 regions of Pakistan

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 and India

India

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. The Kahmiri Shaikhs are considered to be a clan of Punjabi

Punjab region

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 Muslims of Kashmiri

Kashmiri people

The Kashmiri people are a Dardic linguistic group living in Kashmir Valley in Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir and parts of the Pakistani territory of Azad Kashmir who speak the Kashmiri language...

 origin found predominantly in Pakistan

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 Punjab

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 and also in India

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.

After the advent of Islam

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 into Afghanistan

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 and South Asia

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, a significant number of Hindu

Hindu

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  Brahmin

Brahmin

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s converted to Islam

Islam

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 and adopted the title of Shaikh.The largely belonged to Kaul,Bhatt or Sapru clans.In Punjab

Punjab region

The Punjab , also spelled Panjab |water]]s"), is a geographical region straddling the border between Pakistan and India which includes Punjab province in Pakistan and the states of the Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Chandigarh and some northern parts of the National Capital Territory of Delhi...

, they are known as Kashmiri Shaikh. The Kashmiri Shaikhs are mostly urban and do not practice agriculture.

Kashmiri Shaikh's of Kotli are living in the Sarhota and Karthoth region of Kotli

Kotli

Kotli is the chief town of Kotli District, in the Pakistani-administered Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Kotli is linked with Mirpur by two metalled roads, one via Rajdhani, and the other via Charhoi...

. They have been settled there for many years, currently some people of the Sarhota/Karthoth area are known as Butt, but they are all descendants of the Shaikh tribe regardless of the fact that they call themselves Butt etc today.

Notables

• Shaikh Akhtar Rasool CEO of Infinity Solutions.
• Shaikh M. Anwar, Ex-MPA (Punjab) Pakistan
• Sheikh Muhammad Anwar, Member Provincial Assembly Punjab
• Sheikh Sahib Din, Qanungo and Hakim, Sangh, Mirpure, Azad Kashmir
• Sheikh Fazal Alam ASP, Mirpure, Azad Kashmir
• Sheikh Fazal Latif, DSP, Mirpure, Azad Kashmir. Afreedom movement leader who spearheaded attack on Kotli and Mirpure in 1947-48
• Major General Umer Farooq Sheikh, Pakistan Army, Mirpure Azad Kashmir
• Sheikh Ghulam Mohmad,rtd labour officer from saloora Ganderbal srinagar Kashmir heirs from sheikh dynasty since hundred of years.
• Sheikh Manzoor Hussian bagh azad kashmir. Chairman Al Sheikh Welfare Association