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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 Administrative units of Pakistan, four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the Geography of Pakistan, ...

province of

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 24 ...

that is surrounded by Shahmansoor, Kaddi, Thand Kohi, Bam Khel, Dara and Ismailabad.Panj peer means five Sufi Sanits. District Swabi has 4

Tehsils A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

i.e. Swabi Tehsil,

Lahor Lāhor (), also known as Little Lahore (Pashto: , Urdu: ), previously known as Salatura (), is an ancient pre-historic town of Swabi District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The town serves as the headquarters of Lahor Tehsil and is administr ...

Topi Tehsil Topi is a tehsil of district Swabi in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is administratively subdivided into twenty Union Councils,

and

Razar Razzar is a tehsil located in Swabi District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Its administrative seat is located in Shewa Adda Shewa Adda is the headquarter city of Razar Tehsil, Swabi District. This is also called Razzar City. The second largest ...

. Each Tehsil comprises certain numbers of union councils. There are 56 union councils in district Swabi. It is located approximately 100 Kilometers both from Peshawar and Islamabad through recently constructed Peshawar Islamabad Motorway (M-I) with nearest approach at Swabi Interchange near Ambar village on the right bank of the Indus River. Panj Pir Ghar (Panj Pir Mountain) with its sharpest ridge rises to the height of 2,130 feet above sea level or 940 feet above the Yousafzai plain, (Source Gazetteer of Peshawar District 1897–98) while highest peak of the Panj Pir hills is at 2,053 feet altitude from the sea level according to a recent Topo-Sheet issued by the Survey of Pakistan. The area is bounded by the mountain Panjpir Ghar to its north, Badrai Khwar to its west, the Pehur Lift Canal to its east. Total population of the village was 1,065 - Muslims were 1,054 with 542 males & 512 females while Hindus were 11 with 8 males and 3 female total 1,065 persons in 1869. (Source: Tareekh-e-Peshawar). Total population of the village was 3,175 in 1951, 8,227 in 1981 and 13,936 (Males 6,854 and Females 7,082) according to census of 1998 conducted by the Government of Pakistan. Literacy rate in the same year was 49.30% of the total population. Total area of Panj Pir is 3,205 Acres or 25,640 Kanals including streams, mountain, hillocks, ravines and a large cemetery.

Madrassas

Salafists in Afghanistan's northeast were greatly influenced by the Saudi-financed

madrassa Madrasa (, also , ; Arabic: مدرسة , pl. , ) is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary instruction or higher learning. The word is variously transliterated '' ...

s in Pakistan, particularly the

Ahl-i Hadith Ahl-i Hadith or Ahl-e-Hadith ( bn, আহলে হাদীছ, hi, एहले हदीस, ur, اہلِ حدیث, ''people of hadith'') is a Salafi reform movement that emerged in North India in the mid-nineteenth century from the teach ...

Panjpiri madrassas based in the town of Panjpir,

in Pakistan. The most prominent madrassa is the Darul Quran seminary, established in 1939 by Maulana Muhammad Tahir and nowadays headed by his son Maulana Muhammad Tayyab, which has around 20 affiliated seminaries in

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as well and has come under scrutiny for his links with Salafi-jihadi militancy, some Panjpiri militants including

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leader

Maulana Fazlullah Fazal Hayat (1974 – 14 June 2018), more commonly known by his pseudonym Mullah Fazlullah (Pashto/ ur, ), was an Islamist militant who was the leader of the Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi, and was the leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Paki ...

and ISKP leader

Hafiz Saeed Khan Hafiz Saeed Khan (1972 – 26 July 2016), also known as Mullah Saeed Orakzai, was an Islamic militant who served as the Islamic State emir for its Khorasan province, which is active in Afghanistan and Pakistan, from January 2015 until his deat ...

. The madrassa network has also links with the

army An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...

and the ISI through Major (r) Muhammad Amir, the son of Maulana Tahir and brother of Maulana Tayyab. Every year during

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thousands of peoples from all over the province and the country attend the Darul Quran for its religious programs on the translation and explanation of the Qur’an.

Notable people

Haroon Bacha Haroon Bacha (Pashto: هارون باچا ) (born July 27, 1972) is a Pashtun musician who sings mostly in Pashto and, to a lesser extent, in Urdu. Since starting his professional career in 1992, he has released upwards of 50 albums. Early life ...

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 ...

singer *

Nigar Johar Lieutenant General Nigar Johar Khan ( ur, ) is a three-star general in the Pakistan Army. Nigar is the first and only woman in the history of Pakistan Army to reach the rank of lieutenant-general, and the third to reach the rank of major-genera ...

- first woman

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of the

Pakistan Army The Pakistan Army (, ) is the Army, land service branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces. The roots of its modern existence trace back to the British Indian Army that ceased to exist following the partition of India, Partition of British India, wh ...

Major Amir Major (R) Mohammad Aamir Khan better known as Major Amir, is a Pakistani analyst, Afghan affairs specialist and former officer of a secret agency ISI. He is known for the Operation Midnight Jackal. Amir was born to Muhammad Tahir Panjpiri in a re ...

- former

officer

Sources

* Ed Darack. ''Victory Point: Operations Red Wings and Whalers – The Marine Corps' Battle for Freedom in Afghanistan''. Penguin Group, 2009. ,

References

{{Swabi-Union-Councils Populated places in Swabi District Union councils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Union Councils of Swabi District

Madrassas

Notable people

See also

Sources

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