Kali Bair is an old village situated in the suburbs of Nankana Sahib city, Punjab province, Pakistan.
[1] In the 19th century there was only one clan called Waseer living here (in the current Nankana Sahib District).
A Hindu cast Khatri also lived in the area as it has been populated by Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus before the Partition of India.
They were on the run as they had been convicted of murder in their native village Shamkay Bhatiyan (in Lahore district).
Within a short span of time he gathered some people form Bhatti, Awan and Rehmani clans as his followers.
So now at the moment there live in the village people following "Ahl-e-Sunnat", "Ahl-e-Hadith", "Shia" and Ahmadies preachings.
Almost more than half of the population of the village is educated and bears much interest in intellectual debate and controversy.
Almost ninety percent of the children attend school and their parents show much dedication in providing them Higher education also.
Women education is also becoming more and more prevalent and appreciated in the village, which once was understood as a curse, some twenty to thirty years ago.
in food technology and currently is serving as Lecturer at TEVTA (Technical education and Vocational training Authority) Punjab University Lahore.
The people who had many pieces of land were financially good, however the rest of the population was living at or below the poverty line.
However in the recent years many people from the village moved to nearby cities, some even to the distant business hubs of Pakistan Lahore and Karachi.
This changed the financial map of the village and people returned to jobs and businesses to get rid of the acute poverty they had been facing for years.
Due to the hard life led by the villagers, the people are natural athletes and physically quite tough.
It might be interesting to note that instead of being thought ways on how to combat crime, the people of this village always find some way to engage in criminal activity, even after a hundred or so people gave acquired posts in the government and law enforcement institutions.