Jati Umra (Amritsar)

Jati Umra is notable for being the ancestral village of Sharif family of Pakistan. Head of the Sharif family, Muhammad Sharif, who later become a well-known businessman, and founded Ittefaq Group and Sharif Group, belonged to Jati Umra. He left India and moved to Lahore, Pakistan in 1947.^[2][3][4] Two of his three sons, Nawaz and Shehbaz later became the Prime Ministers of Pakistan.^[2] In December 2013, the then Chief Minister of Punjab, Shehbaz Sharif, during his visit to India, went to the grave of his great-grandfather Mian Mohammad Baksh at the village^[5] and offered a holy sheet.^[1]