Bhanda Peeraan
Bhanda Peeran(Urdu: بانڈه بيران) is a village and a part of Inayatabad Union Council (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province) of Pakistan. Name and meaning Bhanda Peeran, also known as Peran Da Bandha in Hindku language and Peer Keeley in Pushto, which means "The Land of Saints", where ''banda'' means ''land'' and ''piran'' means ''saints'', ''peer'' means saint and ''kalay'' means village. Historians and native people of this area say that Muslim Saints used to live in this area in the beginning of 15th century. Population It has a total population of more than 18,000. The major tribes and ethnic groups in this area are as follows: * Syeds (Bukhari) Syeds claim to be the direct descendants of Muhammed through his daughter Fatima-tuz Zahra married to her cousin Ali ibn Abu-Talib. Lots of SYEDs living in Banada Piran . Actually why they called this village by Nam ...
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Subdivisions Of Pakistan
The administrative units of Pakistan comprise four provinces, one federal territory, and two disputed territories: the provinces of Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan; the Islamabad Capital Territory; and the administrative territories of Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit–Baltistan. As part of the Kashmir conflict with neighbouring India, Pakistan has also claimed sovereignty over the Indian-controlled territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh since the First Kashmir War of 1947–1948, but has never exercised administrative authority over either region. All of Pakistan's provinces and territories are subdivided into divisions, which are further subdivided into districts, and then tehsils, which are again further subdivided into union councils. History of Pakistan Early history Pakistan inherited the territory comprising its current provinces from the British Raj following the Partition of India on 14 August 1947. Two days after independence, t ...
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