Abbottabad District
Abbottabad District (Hindko, ) is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is part of the Hazara Division and covers an area of 1,969 km2, with the city of Abbottabad being the principal town. Neighbouring districts incl ...
in the
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a province of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the fourth largest province of Paki ...
province of
Pakistan
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Abbottabad
Abbottabad is a city in the Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. It is the 40th largest city in the country and 6th largest in the province by population, and serves as the headquarter of its namesake tehsil and district ...
city (the district capital).
Villages
The main villages of this
Union Council Union council may refer to:
*Union Council of Ministers
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(UC) are Kuthwal (Well known mohallah: School Wali Gali), Bandi Mansoor (Major mohallahs: Patotay, Chandroll), Gali Banian, Chattri Balla, Danna Sharif, Maira Rehmat Khan, Mohar Kalan and Chattri Khurd. This union council is gateway to
Thandiani
Thandiani is a hill station in the Galyat area of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan, about northeast of Abbottabad District in the foothills of the Himalayas and about above sea level.
History
Thandiani was originally granted as a l ...
pass. The road route passing form the area diverges to three major routes at the end, each leading to Thandiani, Kukmang to Boi and Pattan to Muzaffarabad (Azad Jammu & Kashmir). The first village en route is Gali Banian which actually consists of two villages, Gali and Banian. The main tribe is Awans with good number of Abbasi, Mughals, Syeds and Good Number of Turks(Raja). Two link roads lead from Gali, one goes to Banian and other to Danna Sharif. The village Gali is known for having the first
Jamia
Jamia (جامعة ''jāmi‘a''; also ''jamiya'' 'h'' is the Arabic word for ''gathering''. It can also refer to a book Al-Jami'a or a mosque, or more generally, a university. In the latter sense it refers in official usage to a modern university ...
mosque of the area, having separate
madrassa
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