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
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that is surrounded by Shahmansoor, Kaddi, Thand Kohi, Bam Khel, Dara and Ismailabad.Panj peer means five Sufi Sanits.
District Swabi has 4
Tehsils
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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 ...
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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
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s in Pakistan, particularly the Ahl-i Hadith Panjpiri madrassas based in the town of Panjpir, Swabi District 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
Karachi
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as well and has come under scrutiny for his links with Salafi-jihadi militancy, some Panjpiri militants including TTP leader Maulana Fazlullah and ISKP leader
Hafiz Saeed Khan
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. The madrassa network has also links with the
army
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Haroon Bacha
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Early life ...
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Pashto
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Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official langua ...
singer
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Nigar Johar
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- first woman
Lieutenant General
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Major Amir
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Amir was born to Muhammad Tahir Panjpiri in a re ...