Jabba Khattak is a village located in

Pabbi Tehsil Pabbi is a tehsil located in Nowshera District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The tehsil is named after the Pabbi town, which is located on the GT Road. Overview Pabbi become tehsil in 2008, when NWFP (now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) caretaker chief m ...

Nowshera District Nowshera District ( ps, نوښار ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Peshawar Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The capital and district headquarter is Nowshera city. Overview and history Nowshera was a tehsil (sub di ...

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. It has a small dam which is being built for

irrigation Irrigation (also referred to as watering) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow Crop, crops, Landscape plant, landscape plants, and Lawn, lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,00 ...

and to supply drinking water to the area surrounding the village.

Tribes and Clans

Jabba Khattak is inhabited by the

Khattak The Khattak ( ps, خټک) tribe are a prominent Pashtun tribe located in the Khattak territory, which consists of Karak, Nowshera, Kohat districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. History Khushal Khan Khattak A warrior poet by the name of ...

tribe of the

Pashtuns Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically re ...

. The tribe is then divided into clans (khels), namely: *Zari Khel *Parcham Khel *Molayan *Khudad Khel *Cirkay *Baba Khel Each clan has its own mullah/leader which is their village clan's representative in a Pashtun council called the

jirga A jirga ( ps, جرګه, ''jərga'') is an assembly of leaders that makes decisions by consensus according to Pashtunwali, the Pashtun social code. It is conducted in order to settle disputes among the Pashtuns, but also by members of other ethnic ...

, to settle village disputes and progress.

Mosques

There are Three Main Mosques in Jabba Khattak Village: *Central Mosque (Zari Khel) *Bara Jumat (Parcham Khel) *Khudad Khel Mosque

References

Villages in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Populated places in Nowshera District {{NowsheraPK-geo-stub

Tribes and Clans

Mosques

See also

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