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Lund (tribe)

Lund or Lound (Balochi: لُنڈ ) is a Baloch tribe of Pakistan. It is a Balochi word meaning "warrior or young" and "the Balochs belong to the caste of warriors". They originally came from Balochistan and are now settled in Sindh & Punjab, around Dera Ghazi Khan Hyderabad Dadu Ghotki Nawabshah Sukkur Badin Tando Allah Yar [1] and Sindh.

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  1. ^ "The Baloch Race: A Historical and Ethnological Lund (Balochi: لُنڈ ) is a Baloch tribe of Pakistan. It is Balochi word meaning "warrior" , " the Belooches belong to the caste of warriors". They are a sub tribe of the greater Rind Baloch Tribe. They originally came from Balochistan and are now settled in Sindh and Punjab. According to Baloch lore, their ancestors hail from Aleppo in what is now Syria. They claim to be descendants of Hazrat Ameer Hamza A.S, uncle of the prophet Muhammad (S.A.W), who settled in Halab (present-day Aleppo). After the fight against second Umayyad Caliph Yazid I at Karbala (in which Ameer Hamza's descendants supported and fought alongside Husayn ibn Ali A.S) in 680, descendants of Hazrat Ameer Hamza A.S migrated to east or southeast of the central Caspian region, specially toward Sistan & Balochistan. (en)Sketch". Retrieved 11 May 2018.