Panjpir (

Pashto Pashto ( , ; , ) is an eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family, natively spoken in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. It has official status in Afghanistan and the Pakistani province of Khyb ...

:پنج پیر) is a town and

Union council Union council may refer to: *Union Council of Ministers The Union Council of Ministers is the Cabinet (government), principal executive organ of the Government of India, which serves to aid and advise the President of India in execution of t ...

of Swabi District in the

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Northern Pakistan, northwestern region of the country, Khyber ...

province of

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# ...

that is surrounded by

Shahmansoor Shah Mansur, also named Shah Mansoor or Shahmansoor, is a town and Union Council of Swabi District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at 34°4'0N 72°27'0E with an altitude of 301 metres (990 feet). According to E ...

Kaddi Kaddi (کڈی) (also known as Kaday or کډے in Pashto) is a village in the Swabi District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. The inhabitants belong to Aba Khel subtribe of Mandanr Yusufzai Pakhtuns who occupy Swabi and Mardan districts of Khyber-Pakht ...

, Thand Kohi, Bam Khel, Darra and Ismailabad.Panj peer means five Sufi Saints. District Swabi has 4

Tehsils A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative ce ...

i.e.

Swabi Tehsil Swabi is a tehsil located in Swabi District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Administration Zaida Swabi is administratively subdivided into thirty nine Union Councils, namely:Lahor Lāhor (), also known as Little Lahore (Pashto: , Urdu: ), previously known as Salatura (), is a town within the Swabi District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The town serves as the headquarters of the Lahor Tehsil and is administratively ...

Topi Tehsil Topi is a tehsil of district Swabi District, Swabi in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is administratively subdivided into twenty Union Councils of Pakistan, Union Councils,Razar Razzar is a tehsil located in Swabi District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Its administrative seat is located in Shewa Adda near Kalu Khan. It consists of different villages and union councils, including, Sheikh Jana ,Yaqubi, Yar Hussain, Sudhi ...

. 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 Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

and

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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 , ), sometimes romanized as madrasah or madrassa, is the Arabic word for any type of educational institution, secular or religious (of any religion), whether for elementary education or higher learning. ...

s in Pakistan, particularly the

Ahl-i Hadith Ahl-i-Hadith or Ahl-e-Hadith (, ''people of hadith'') is a Salafi reform movement that emerged in North India in the mid-nineteenth century from the teachings of Syed Ahmad Barelvi, Sayyid Ahmad Shahid, Syed Nazeer Husain and Nawab Siddiq Has ...

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 Tahir Panjpiri and nowadays headed by his son Maulana Muhammad Tayyab, which has around 20 affiliated seminaries in

Karachi Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...

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

Sufi Muhammad Sufi Muhammad bin Alhazrat Hassan (Urdu: ; born 1933 – 11 July 2019) was a Pakistani Sunni Salafi cleric and militant, and the founder of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), a militant group (declared a terrorist outfit and banned in ...

and

Maulana Fazlullah Fazal Hayat (1974 – 15 June 2018), more commonly known by his pseudonym Mullah Fazlullah (Pashto/), was an Islamist jihadist militant who was the leader of the Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi, and was the leader of the Tehreek-e-Taliban P ...

and ISIS–K leader Hafiz Saeed Khan. The madrassa network has also links with the

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

* Tahir Panjpiri – Islamic scholar. * Muhammad Hammad (Hassan) well known journalist /Analyst younger son of Tahiri Panjpiri * Haroon Bacha –

Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ;), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are an Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in southern and eastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan. They were historically also referred to as Afghans until 1964 after the ...

singer, musician and composer. * Gul Wareen –

singer, musician and composer. He is also the nephew of Haroon Bacha 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

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