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The Bantwa Memons are a group of Kathiawadi Memons originating from the town of Bantva, Kathiawar, a former district of the state of Gujarat in India.
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The Bantwa Memons are a group of Kathiawadi Memons originating from the town of Bantva, Kathiawar, a former district of the state of Gujarat in India.
The 1993 Bombay bombings were a series of 12 terrorist bombings that took place in Bombay, Maharashtra, on 12 March 1993. The single-day attacks resulted in 257 fatalities and 1,400 injuries. The attacks were coordinated by Dawood Ibrahim, leader of the Mumbai-based international organised crime syndicate D-Company. Ibrahim was believed to have ordered and helped organize the bombings through his subordinates Tiger Memon and Yakub Memon.
The Memon are a Muslim community in Gujarat India, and Sindh, Pakistan, the majority of whom follow the Hanafi fiqh of Sunni Islam. They are divided into different groups based on their origins: Kathiawari Memons, Kutchi Memons and Bantva Memons from the Kathiawar, Kutch and Bantva regions of Gujarat respectively, and Sindhi Memons from Sindh.
Sindhi Memon is a person of Memon community who resides in the Pakistani province of Sindh, they speak Sindhi as their first language.
Memoni is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Kathiawari Memons, from the Kathiawar region of Gujarat, India. Memon from Okha Port, Kutch and some other communities from Kathiawad also use Memoni at their homes.
Murad Memon Goth,Memon Goth or Murad Memon is a neighbourhood in the Malir district of Karachi, Pakistan, that previously was a part of Gadap Town until 2011. The estimated population of Memon Goth in 2019 was 75,000. Memon Goth has the highest number of educational institutions around Gadap Town. Muhallahs: ABDUL KARIM MUHALLAH Umeed Ali Muhallah Maheshwari Muhallah Brohi Muhallah Haji Ahmed Muhallah Jamot Muhallah Bachal Bagh Hashim Khaskheli Goth UC Murad Memon Jam Goth UC Murad Memon Somar Kandani UC Murad Memon Mola Essa UC Murad Memon Nimat Village Brohi Muhallah. The neighbourhood is located in agricultural lands of Gadap Town.
Kutchi Memons are an ethnic group or caste from Kutch in Gujarat, India, who speak the Kutchi language. They are related to the Memons associated with the historic state of Kathiawar, a Muslim community of Pakistan and India, who speak the Memon language. Transliteration of name of this Memon community has now been standardized. Hence popular usage is Cutchi and Kutchi.
Karimabad is a residential neighbourhood in the Karachi Central district of Karachi, Pakistan.
Ibrahim Mushtaq Abdul Razzaq Memon, better known by the nickname Tiger Memon, is a gangster and terrorist, reputed to be one of the masterminds behind the 1993 Mumbai bombings. He is wanted by Interpol and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). He is a former member of D-Company, a gang led by Dawood Ibrahim. He got the nickname Tiger after helping a petty drugs and weapons smuggler to evade the crime branch of Mumbai Police by driving his car recklessly over 100 km/h on one-way roads.
Bantva, or Bantwa, is a small town in Saurashtra region of the state of Gujarat in India.
The ancestors of present-day Memons who settled a few centuries ago in various parts of the districts of India, particularly Kathiawar, commonly identified as simply Memons.
Kathiawari Memons, a sub-group of the Memons, arrived in Ceylon from the Kathiawar region of Gujarat, India beginning in the 1870s.
Yakub Abdul Razzaq Memon was an terrorist convicted for his involvements in the 1993 Bombay bombings, and the brother of one of the prime suspects in the bombings, Tiger Memon. After his appeals and petitions for clemency were all rejected, he was executed at Nagpur Central Jail on 30 July 2015. Memon financially assisted his brother Tiger Memon and Dawood Ibrahim in planning and executing the bombings. Memon handled Tiger's funds, funded the training of 15 youths who were sent to a secret location to learn handling arms and ammunition, purchased the vehicles used in the bombings, and stockpiled weapons.
Marvi Memon is a Pakistani politician who recently served as Chairperson of the Benazir Income Support Programme, from February 2015 until June 2018. She had been a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from March 2008 to June 2011 and again from June 2013 to May 2018.
Khow suey, is a noodle soup made of egg noodles and curried beef or chicken with coconut milk, served with a variety of contrasting condiments. A squeeze of lemon also adds tanginess to khow suey. The dish is similar to the Burmese noodle dish ohn no khauk swe, literally 'coconut milk noodles'.
Memons in South Africa form a prosperous Muslim subgroup in that country's Indian community and are largely descended from Memons from Kathiawar who immigrated from India in the late 19th century/early 20th century. Villages and towns that South African Memons originated from include Porbander, Bhanvad, Ranavav and Jodiya.
The Nakhoda Musjid is the principal mosque of Kolkata, India, in the Chitpur area of the Burrabazar business district in Central Kolkata, at the intersection of Zakaria Street and Rabindra Sarani.
Memon may refer to:
Kharadar is a neighbourhood in District South of Karachi, Pakistan. Kharadar and the adjacent communities of Mithadar and Jodia Bazaar together form what is regarded as the original core of Karachi.
Majeed Memon is an Indian Politician and Member of Parliament in Rajya Sabha of India from Maharashtra. He is a criminal lawyer by profession and leader of Nationalist Congress Party.
The New Memon Masjid known as the Memon Masjid is a mosque located in Karachi, Pakistan. It is one of the largest and oldest mosques in the city.
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