Dilawar Cheema Kalan

Dilawar Cheema Kalan

Dilawar Cheema Kalan is a village of the Cheema people. It was founded in 1297 by Dilawer Cheema. It has a population of approximately ten thousand people, and an area of five thousand acres. It is 22km from Wazir Abad. In the era of the British Empire, it was a zail. The the most notable person from the village was Ch. Nazer Muhammad Cheema. He was Zailder, Honarary Magistrate in 1940. Other notable villagers include Mian Muhammad Din and Shouk, both Punjabi poets, and Ch. Ghulam Qadir Cheema, a companion of Quaid-e-Azam. He established a large cotton business in Rahim Yar Khan. He remained president of the Rahim Yar Khan Grain Market for many year. The major crops of the village are rice and wheat.

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