Palijo

The Palijo (Sindhi: پليجو) is a Sindhi tribe of Sindh province, Pakistan. Palijo is a Sammat tribe. During the Talpur dynasty and before, this tribe held lands on the banks of the Indus River when that area was under official administration of the Palijo tribe and was called Palijar'pargana, ranging from Choriya Jagir, now in Tando Muhammad Khan District, to Pinyari Phat, in Sujawal District.

Distribution

Most of this tribe live mainly in the Bannu, and Daro areas of Sujawal District and Jungshahi and Mirpur Sakro areas of Thatta District. However some families are settled in Nasarpur in Matiari District, Sunn in Jamshoro District, Bangaldero in Larkana District, Hingorja in Khairpur District, Dadoon and Norai in Tando Muhammad Khan District and in the cities of Hyderabad and Karachi

The Total population of Palijo tribe is around 30,000. The head (Sardar) of this tribe is called Arbab and current head of Palijo tribe is Arbab Abdul Hai Palijo son of late Arbab Noor Muhammad Palijo.^[1]

Some well known personalities from the Palijo tribe are:

Rasul Bux Palejo politician, senior advocate and writer;
Ayaz Latif Palijo President Qaumi Awami Tahreek (QAT), Human Rights Lawyer and writer^[2]
Senator Sassui Palijo is daughter of Ghulam Qadir Palijo, is elected Senator on Women's reserved seat in the Senate of Pakistan, she was twice elected member of Sindh Assembly from Mirpur Sakro, Thatta (2002-2008 and 2008-2013) and she was Minister for Culture in Government of Sindh (2008 -2013)^[3]^[4]

References

Sindhi tribes

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