Babbar, Babur, Babar is a Baloch and Sindhi tribe[1] which lives in Northern Sindh, Balochistan (Nasirabad Division) and Dera Ghazi Khan division of Punjab.[2] The Mughal author "Yūsuf Mīrak" described the Babbars in his historical account of Sindh the "Tareekh E Mazhar Shah Jahani", as a rebellious Baloch tribe inhabiting the Kirthar mountains westwards of present day Jamshoro district of Sindh.[3]
^Zaidi, Sunita. The Mughal State and Tribes in seventeenth century Sind. Jamia Millia Islamia. p. 350. The nomadic pastoral tribes of Baloch Bareja and Baloch Babar were located around pargana Bubakan and the eastern hill tracts of sarkar Chakarhala respectively.
^M H Panhwar (2003-01-28). An Illustrated Historical Atlas of Soomra Kingdom of Sindh. Babar also calling them Balochis, were settled in present Kotri taluka in the seventeenth century. It seems that most of these tribes settled in Sindh in the thirteenth century under Mongol pressure
^Chandrashekhar, R (2016). Understanding Balochistan (2nd ed.). New Delhi: Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS). p. 10. ISBN978-93-84492-15-1.
^The Baluch and the Brahui and their Rebellions (1st ed.). Tribal Analysis Center, LTD. 2009. p. 26.
^Shamsi, Waseem (2023-01-31). "Six IDPs gunned down, five wounded in attack on camps in Jacobabad village". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2024-02-14. some families belonging to the Babbar Jamali sub-tribe were among hundreds of people who had moved into Jacobabad to escape drowning at the outset of the unprecedented rains and floods that hit Balochistan (and Sindh)
