The name Meerwala refers to both a mouza

Mouza

In Bangladesh, a mouza is a type of administrative district, corresponding to a specific land area within which there may be one or more settlements. Before the 20th century, the term referred to a revenue collection unit in a pargana or revenue district. As populations increased and villages...

 and a small village of Jatoi

Jatoi Tehsil

Jatoi is a tehsil of Muzaffargarh District in the Punjab province of Pakistan, it is administratively subdivided into 16 Union Councils. The main language spoken there is Saraiki....

, a rural tehsil

Tehsil

A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....

 in the Muzaffargarh District

Muzaffargarh District

Muzaffargarh is a district in the south of the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is part of Saraiki Waseb. It is spread over an area of 8,249 km². Muzaffargarh District lies in the strip between the rivers Chenab and Indus, which pass along the Eastern and Western boundaries respectively of...

 of 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...

. The village (29.453°N 70.780°E) is 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) north of the mouza (29.374°N 70.793°E).

News

Meerwala gained notoriety as the location of the gang rape of Mukhtar Mai

Mukhtaran Bibi

Mukhtaran Bibi is a Pakistani woman from the village of Meerwala, in the rural tehsil of Jatoi of the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan...

 in June 2002.
Sajid Jatoi, the chief editor of the daily newspaper The Ideal Pakistan

The Ideal Pakistan

The Ideal Pakistan is an Urdu newspaper published in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. Sajid Jatoi is the chief editor and publisher of the newspaper....

, belongs to Meerwala.