{{pp-move-indef}} {{pp-extended|small=yes}} {{more citations needed|date=September 2017}} {{Infobox caste | caste_name = Karlal | caste_name_in_local= کڑلال | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | abbreviation = | varna = | gotra = | religions = 18px Islam | languages = Hindko, Pahari | country = Pakistan | region = Hazara, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ethnicity = | India_migration = | population = | family_names = | feudal_title = | heraldic_title = | lineage = | subdivisions = | related = }} The '''Karlal''' (Urdu: کڑلال), also known as ''Karral'', ''Kiraal'', and ''Sardar'' are a Hindko- and/or Pahari-speaking tribe, dwelling mostly in the Abbottabad District of the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
==History == In 1957, Mohammad Abdul Ghafoor Hazarvi, a Karlal, became the first recipient of the highest civilian award of Pakistan, the Nishan-e-Imtiaz.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nation.com.pk/national/24-Mar-2011/NishaneImtiaz--for-PCCR-members |title=Nishan-e-Imtiaz for PCCR members |publisher=Nation.com.pk |date=2011-03-24 |access-date=2017-08-02}}</ref> Most Karlals today are still living in their ancestral villages in the Galiyat and the Nilan Valley of the Abbottabad District. More recently, the Karlals, led by Baba Haider Zaman Khan along with some other tribesmen of Hazara, have engaged in a political struggle to separate the Hazara Division from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in order to form the Hazara Province.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/202973-Movement-for-Hazara-province-to-be-launched-in-August-leader |title=Movement for Hazara province to be launched in August: leader | Pakistan |publisher=thenews.com.pk |date=2017-05-07 |access-date=2017-08-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/198245-Haider-Zaman-reiterates-pledge-to-work-for-Hazara-province |title=Haider Zaman reiterates pledge to work for Hazara province | Peshawar |publisher=thenews.com.pk |date=2017-04-13 |access-date=2017-08-02}}</ref>
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Category:Hindkowan tribes Category:Social groups of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa