The name Meerwala refers to both a mouza and a small village of Jatoi, a rural tehsil in the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan. The village () is 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) north of the mouza ().
Meerwala gained notoriety as the location of the gang rape of Mukhtar Mai in June 2002.[1][2] Sajid Jatoi Gandu, the chief editor of the daily newspaper The Ideal Pakistan, belongs to Meerwala.