Sardar Heera Singh Sandhu (1706–1776) was the founder of Nakai Misl, one of the twelve Sikh Misls that later became the Sikh Empire under the leadership of Ranjit Singh.
Heera Singh was born in a Sandhu Jat Sikh family in present-day Pakistan.
[2] Heera Singh Sandhu was born into a Jat Sikh family in 1706 in the Punjab region in what is now Pakistan.
He took possession of the lands surrounding his native village, Baherwal Kalan and countryside of Kasur which was located in the Nakka country South of Majha region.
He also took Chunian from the Afghans but died in a battle against Sujan Chisti for Pakpattan.