Re: What is your zaat ?
Cress i think you're mistaking the meaning of zaat with something else. Zaat has usually to do with your background/tribe/clan etc rather than the place where you belong. You can have people from 100s of different zaats that belong to hyderabad.
In most cases a person's zaat is the same as his/her surname. I am an Uqaili. We are (according to our family tree anyway) direct descendants of Hazrat Ali (RA)'s elder brother. Came to the indo-pak subcontinent with the advent of arabs way back when. There arent many Uqailis in pakistan but many can be found in Iran and the arab world today.
Sincerely,
Captain Lota