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Malik Anwar Ali Noon of Ali Pur Noon son of Malik Sultan Ali Khan Noon is a popular prominent politician of Sargodha in the Noon family. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan in the government of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto . His own village is Ali Pur Noon, situated in Bhera circle in Bhalwal district, Sargodha. Now his son, Malik Amjad Ali Noon, is a very famous and popular political leader in district Sargodha and Bhalwal province Punjab.Ali Pur Noon is a historical village near Bhera in Sargodha. It was settled in the nineteenth century by the Noon family, one chief Malik Anwer Ali Noon son of Malik Sultan Ali Khan Noon of the village Sultan Pur Noon who moved here from Sardar Pur Noon along with their staff and people to cutivate the lands. Ali Pur Noon, which is one of the twenty villages belonging to the Noon family was resided by the family chief. Ali Pur Noon is inhabited by over 24,000 people. It is a self sustained community, having schools, medical clinics, ironmongers, carpenters, traditional craftsmen in leather arts, clay arts, etc. The village is surrounded by citrus, kinoo, malta, grapefruits, mango, lychee, Guava and date orchards. The date and Mango orchards are over a hundred years old. It also has a very successful stud farm which is owned by Malik Anwer Ali Noon ,who was elected a member of the Pakistan National Assembly during the Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto regime, and his son Malik Amjad Ali Noon served in several successive governments on different posts. Malik Anwer Ali Noon and his sons Malik Munawer Ali Noon,Malik Asad Ali Noon and Malik Amjad Ali Noon are very popular in the area among the poor.

Malik Anwer Ali Noon, has 9 grandsons, From his three daughters his grandsons are, Syed Jamal Hussain, Syed Hasnain Raza Shah Gilani, Malik Azhar Awan and from his three sons his grandsons are Malik Azmat Ali Noon, Malik Hasan Noon, Malik Azam Ali Noon, Malik Amin ALi Noon, Malik Asim Ali Noon and Malik Muhammed Ali Noon.

Jamal Hussain is the lead singer in a band in Russell Square, London. He is a lawyer by proffession while Azam and Hasnain Raza are students at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. Hasnain or Raza as he is better known is an anthropology student and is writing his senior dissertation on the South Asian Diaspora in the UK. He has been a Teaching Assisstant at LUMS for the past two years and has participated in a number of research projects in the Sargodha district. Hasnain Raza Shah has also been writing regularly for The Friday Times and is a partner in Ampak Enterprises, part of the House of Gilani. Azhar has recently returned after graduating from the University of San Francisco. Amin and Asim are students at The Aitchison College at Lahore.