The Mohana (Sindhi: مُوهاڻا), Mohano (singular) (Sindhi: موهاڻو) or Mallah, Mirbahar, Mirani (ملاح، میربحر، میراڻی), is an ancient tribe of Sindhi people who live in the province of Sindh. Mohano or Mallah tribe is one of the largest tribe of Sindh province whose population is more than 5 million. Sindh, Pakistan.^[1][2] Mohana are well-known for living on houseboats in the centre of Lake Manchar, entire families and communities subsisting off of the lake’s bounty of fish. They obtain these fish not only via traditional methods (such as nets or fishing rods) but through the use of trained birds, utilising cormorants and night herons; the birds are kept as companions in the houseboats and benefit from the excess fish caught by their human caretakers. In addition to Lake Manchar, populations of Mohana reside along Pakistan’s southern coast, as well as in Karachi, Thatta, and Keti Bandar.

Distribution

Most Mohana families live in Karachi, Sehwan, Thatta, Keti bandar, Son miyanri, Daamb.

Culture

They often refer to themselves as "Mir Bahar" (meaning 'Lord of the sea'). They are mostly Sunni Muslims and speak Sindhi language and they basically are Sindhis. The historical man named "Morro Mohano" who took revenge from a shark which ate his four brothers and this historical moment took place at Mauripur road once it was the coastline and now it is under the overpass of Gulbai where there are the graves of Morro’s brothers and this history is centuries old and this is from Karachi the fishing village of Sindhi fishermen’s.^[3]

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