What is Maliar?
{{nosources|date=November 2012}} The '''Maliars''' are an ethnic group, or people, mostly inhabiting the Northern districts of [[Punjab (Pakistan)]] and the lower plains of the [[Hazara Division]] of the [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]] province of Pakistan. The Maliars are by and large an agrarian people and most still work as farm tenants and small peasant farmers. The term or name 'Maliar' itself derived from the [[Punjabi language]] word that means 'gardener' and 'cultivator'. Almost all the Maliars are [[Muslim]]s. {{Asia-stub}} [[Category:Ethnic groups in Pakistan]]