A Muslim tribe of Arains was settled in Doaba region before 1947 especially in Jalandhar district. The Arains are the descendants of Umayyad Arab army that arrived through Sindh with Muhammad Bin Qasim in Indian Sub - Continent. They were settled in the Doaba region since the reign of Bahlol Lodhi as they were in the army of Lohdis and then they were in Mughal army. General Adina Beg Khan who also belongs to the Arain tribe had ruled Doaba region for several months in 1748 A.D. Another well known Arain name from Jalandhar is General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, the sixth president of Pakistan. Sir Fazl-i-Hussain, KCSI (1877–1936) was also an Arain politician from Punjab, born in Jalandhar. Hussain was one of the founders of the old Punjab Unionist Party, and was opposed to Jinnah's vision of an Independent Pakistan. The Arains were mainly settled in Phagwara, Nakodar, Kotla Nihang, Daulatpur and Noorpur. They were landholders of big agricultural tracts in the region. After partition almost all Arain population migrated from Jalandhar to Faisalabad (formerly Lyallpur), Bahawalpur, Rawalpindi and Lahore districts of Pakistan.