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 chi ...

Nowshera District Nowshera District (, ) is a district in the Peshawar Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The capital and district headquarter is Nowshera city. Overview and history Nowshera was previously a tehsil (subdivision) of Pesha ...

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

. It has a small dam which is being built for

irrigation Irrigation (also referred to as watering of plants) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has bee ...

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

Tribes and Clans

Jabba Khattak is inhabited by the

Khattak The Khattak () tribe is a prominent Pashtun tribe located in the Khattak territory, which consists of Karak, Nowshera, Kohat districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. History Origins Multiple British Raj historians have identified the Khat ...

tribe of the

Pashtuns Pashtuns (, , ; ;), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are an Iranian peoples, Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghan (ethnon ...

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

jirga A jirga (, ''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 groups who ...

, to settle village disputes and progress.

Mosques 5

*There are five important mosques in Jabba Khattak village: *Muhla khel *Central Mosque (muhlayan) ((Zari khel) needet, date October 2022)) *Bara Jumat (Parcham Khel). *Khudad Khel Mosque *spin Qamar jumat *Khan bahdar check jumat *

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

Tribes and Clans

Mosques 5

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