Dera Bugti
Dera Bugti is a town in Dera Bugti District, Balochistan, The hometown of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. Most of the inhabitants of Dera Bugti belong to the Bugti family.
Administration
The town of Dera Bugti serves as the headquarters of the district and tehsil of the same name. The town of Dera Bugti itself functions as a Union council. Dera Bugti is homeland of all Bugti tribes. In this District, many natural gas fields are working and the gas is being provided all parts of Pakistan, But most areas of this district are still deprived from gas. Sui Gas Field which is managed by PPL, Pir Koh Gas Field, Loti Gas Field and Uch Gas Field managed by OGDCL, and many more...
Dera Bugti District
Dera Bugti is a district located in the south west of Balochistan. Dera Bugti is named after its headquarter town 'Dera Bugti'. Dera (a Balochi word) means `abode' or `habitat', while `Bugti' is the name of the major Baloch tribe. Thus Dera Bugti means the abode of the Bugtis, the dominant tribe of this district. Dera Bugti district has three sub-districts: Dera Bugti, Sui and Phailawagh. Natural gas is the major mineral wealth of Dera Bugti district. There are many fields but four major gas fields: Sui gas field, Pir Koh Gas field, Loti Gas field and Uch Gas field. Natural Gas was discovered at Sui in 1963 for use all over the country. The first natural gas supply plant was established at Sui (in 1963). Besides Sui, Pir Koh, Loti, and Uch, gas is believed to be also present in other parts of Dera Bugti district.
Bugti
Bugti is a Baloch tribe located in Balochistan. They are divided into various clans such as Rahija, Mandawani , Kalpar, Nauthani,Masuri, Perozani, Mondarani, Qasimani, Shambani, Sobazai, Pahi, Maretha and Moharkanzai etc., numbering around 300,000.
On a bigger scale the Bugti tribe are claimed to be a clan of the Rind tribe. Like the Marris, the Bugtis are considered fine horsemen and good fighters. A military expedition against the Bugti was organized by Sir Charles Napier in 1845, but the British could not control the tribe till later when Sir Robert Sandeman ruled Balochistan. It is claimed that the construction of the Sukkur-Quetta railway line bifurcated the territory of the Bugtis and made them adopt to modern ways of life. Marri and Bugti both are blood-related tribes. In fact, it is said that Marri, Bugti, Khetran and Rind have the same origins. Bugti is the most powerful tribe of the Baloch. They are thought to have settled in their present location around 1500 AD when Mir Chakkar (a 16th-century Baloch king) settled in the barren terrain of the present Bugti territories in Balochistan, i.e., the large area around the town of Dera Bugti.
Origin
The origin of the Bugti tribe is often recounted by the Bugti Sardars (elders) claiming that the Bugtis to be from Aleppo (Halab) (Arabic: حلب) in Syria. It is claimed that the tribe migrated to Dera Bugti, Balochistan after the death of the fourth Muslim Caliph Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib after 661 A.D. The cause of their migration is claimed to be infighting among the various clans of Aleppo.
Like other places in Baluchistan, Dera Bugti has a Hindu population. One can imagine this area to be sparsely populated by indigenous Hindus for a long time—many of these Hindus may have converted to Islam when the new faith reached this region.
Some historians like Rai Bahadur Hetoram say that the ancestor of Bugtis was Hazrat Ameer Hamza the uncle of the Prophet Mohammed known as one of the bravest Muslims who sacrificed his life for the cause of Islam also titled as {Shaheed Ul Momineen}.
Because of the desert-like environment of Baluchistan, with limited agricultural land, the people living in the region historically made ends meet by robbing the pilgrims traveling from the more affluent areas of South Asia to Mecca.
