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Mekan clan
The '''Mekan''' (spelled Maken too) are a caste, or clan of Jat [http://www.jatland.com/home/Gotras/M] and are claimed to ancest from [[Rajput]]s  mostly converted to [[Islam]], around the 12th or 13th century AD. They are mostly settled in the [[Sargodha District]] of the [[Punjab (Pakistan)]].
Whereas, the people of mekan caste in Baluchistan are considered a sub-branch of Machi(also spelled as [Mochi]),  though there is no such claim in any historyical books but many of them admit this fact by themselves that they belong to Machi caste and are from the Shemir's (also spelled as Sheemir) generation .
They have been slaves of Baluchs for a long period of time in Baluchistan .


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