Rajanpur
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Rajanpur, 29:06N, 70:19E, is a city and the headquarters of the Rajanpur district and tahsil in the extreme southwest part of Punjab, Pakistan. The district lies entirely west of the Sindhu river (Indus river); it is a narrow, 20 to 40 miles wide strip of land sandwitched beween the Sindhu river on the east and the Sulaiman range of hills and mountains on the west. The town is approximately nine miles from the right (west) bank of the river. In 1998 it had a population of 42,986 (census figure).
[edit] History
Rajanpur was either founded by or occupied and renamed as Rajanpur by a warlord Makhdoon Shaikh Rajan in 1772-73. It remained a small and little known village located on the road from Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab to Sukkur in Sind until 1862. In that year, Mithankot, a larger and more prosperous town, located on the Sindhu river several miles southeast of Rajanpur was completely destroyed by river floods. The administrative offices of the Assistant District Commissioner of the British government were moved from Mithankot to Rajanpur, because of its location at a safe distance from the river. It became a municipality and the tahsil headquarters in 1873. Rajanpur district has three tehsils; Jampur in the north, Rajanpur in the center and Rojhan Mazari in the south. In addition, there is a "tribal area" in the hills of Sulaiman range. Asni, Dajal, Fazilpur, Harand, Hazipur, Jampur, Lalgarh, Mithankot, Muhammedpur, Rajanpur, Rojhan, and Umerkot are the large or historic towns and cities in the district.
[edit] Baloch Tribes
The main balochi tribe of this region are the Mazari, They belong to the "Hoth" branch of Baloch Nation. Mir Balakh Sher Mazari is the current reigning Chief of the Mazari Tribe
