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pass responsibility for the Girni, Murtuza and Manjhi posts was assigned to the Miani and
Ghurezai tribes in 1876. That year, they also accepted responsibility for monitoring passage into the Gomal Valley, as did a portion of the Ghwarazai that lived away from the other clan members of the Kakar tribe of Baluchistan.
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tribe, Mianis settled in the Gomal plains by or before 1850. The estimated population of the Miani tribe was about 800 in the 1870s. They were a semi-independent group that lived along the
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Baluchistan especially in the Shirani District, sizable population of the Miani people live in Sharigh Tehsil of Harnai District in Balochistan.
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Derajat Pakistan and Afghanistan though historical Gomal Pass. Many of them settled in the Gomal plains by 1850.
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