Swabi District
Swabi District ( ps, سوابۍ ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in the Mardan Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It lies between the Indus and Kabul Rivers. Before becoming a district in 1988, it was a tehsil within t ...
in the
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...
province of Pakistan.Tehsils & Unions in the District of Swabi - Government of Pakistan It is located at 34°13'0N 72°15'0E
Its population is about 60,000.
There is a government high school for girls and secondary school for boys. Kernel Sher Khan Cadet college is located here. There is also a basic health unit in the town.
Ismaila is very famous for Chapli Kabab and Faiq Lobia farosh.
Crops like wheat, maize and rice are grown here and the lands are aggregated by the Malakand Canal.
Within about a 10 km radius from Ismaila, there are several archaeological sites. The village of Hund had been the capital of Kabul Shahi for about 300 years. The archaeological site
Rani Gatt
Ranigat (Pashto: راني ګټ) is a collection of 2nd century CE Buddhist ruins spread over an area of 4 square kilometers which dates from the Gandhara civilization. Ranigat is located in Buner Valley of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ...
, part of the ancient
Gandhara
Gandhāra is the name of an ancient region located in the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent, more precisely in present-day north-west Pakistan and parts of south-east Afghanistan. The region centered around the Peshawar Vall ...
Kingdom, is also nearby.
Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...
poet Ali Haider Joshi was born in this town in 1914. He was the author of ''
Yusuf Khan and Sherbano
''Yusuf Khan and Sherbano'' is a famous Pashtun amorous folktale. Its format is an extended narrative described as ''qissa'' or ''dastan''. It is listed along with '' Adam Khan and Durkhanai'', ''Ramadad Khan'', and ''Ajab Khan'' as one of the im ...
'', which was turned into the first
Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani ().
Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...