Swabi

Swabai (Urdu: صوابی) lies between the Indus and Kabul rivers, in the NWFP of Pakistan. Its residents are referred to as 'swabiwaals'. Swabai is the fourth most populous district of NWFP with Yousafzai clan of Pukhtoons as the predominant clan of this district.

The history and culture of Swabai is very rich. The late historian Roshan Khan Baba from this region wrote about the history of this great tribe in his book 'History of Yousafzai Tribe'. A drive to Swabai from Jehangiray or Mardan is scenic and a beautiful experience. Lush green fields and shady trees line the road on either side.

Swabai is proud of its illustrious sons like Sahibzada Abdul Qayyum Khan founder of Islamia College (Peshawar) and the brave martyr of Kargil war Captain Karnal Sher Khan recipient of the highest military award Nishan-e-Haider. People of Swabai are well educated, skilled, hard working and enterprising. Many of them are expatriates working all over the globe for their living.

• View of Sunset at Village Zaida of Swabi District.
  View of Sunset at Village Zaida of Swabi District.
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  A beautifull view of Swabi City from Maneri Sona Baba Hill.

Swabwals are modern and liberal in their outlook to life yet devout Muslims. They are well known for their hospitality, are polite and good looking in appearance.

Tobacco is a popular cash crop of Swabai along withvegetables, wheat, sugar cane and maize.Its climate is ideally suited for citrus in particular while many other fruits like water melon, peach and apricot are also grown there. Swabi is also rich with mineral resources founded in the Maneri village and its white marble is very popular throughout the country.

Swabai is home to the largest earth filled dam of the world, the Tarbela Dam. It also boasts of one of the most prestigious institution of the country, The GIK institute of Engineering Sciences and technology located in village Topi.

A six lane motorway connecting Islamabad with Peshawar passes through Swabai District with an access interchange at Lahor.

Swabi is important from the archaeological point of view and it has 438 archaeological sites. It was the part of Gandhara civilization. Alexander The Great crossed river Indus at a point on the right bank where now lies village Hund. Hund is an archaeological treasure and has remained capital of Hindu Shahi and Turk Shahi for nearly three hundred years. Archaeological sites are found peppered all over Swabai and is a great tourist attraction.

Maneri is one of the most educated village of district Swabai and has a high literacy rate and there is no field of education inwhich people from village are not involved.

Administration

• Lahore
• Swabi

People

Before partition, Hindus also lived here and most of the businesses were owned by them, they were good friends with each other. Specially there were more Hindus in bamkhel before partition. Both Muslims and Hindus lived peacefully. After partition, the Hindus left for India and now the whole population is Pakhtun and belongs to the Yousafzai tribe of Pakhtuns. Even today Hindus and Sikhs are found in some areas of Swabi. Tehsils of district Swabi are Swabai(aka: Swabi), Lahor and Topai. The great love story of Yousaf Khan and Sher bano also belongs to Swabi. And the visitors come to Shera Ghund (the village) and climb on the mountain to visit the tomb of Yousaf Khan. Dagi. In every way of life the people of Dagi are performing their role. Here live highly qualified people and most of them are officers in the Government departments. Another important village in Swabi is Tordher most of the people are prefer to work outside from the country therefore most of the tordher resident travel different countries for work, Sajjad Ali Shah is also belong to tordher,he is the will known person of his village, who achieved great success in Sudan, UK and in UAE with his Engineering Expertese.. The other important villages of Swabi are tarakai, Tordher, Maneri,Zaida,Panjpir, Marghuz, Yar hussain,and Zarobi. the people of zarobi has its own name in hospitality, this village having rivr indus flowing through it.Most of the people of this village work outside the country, this village is also well known for education,some of the people of this village working on high posts in pakistan & all over the world, some of its people have joined now even in aerospace technology, & studying aerospace in emirates aviation college, like Farrukh siyer,Mohammad Asif & Hammad saeed. There are many religious scholars in Swabi. Link road swabi is a popular bazaar for buying clothes, cosmetics, furniture, etc. Topi is also one of the best market of Swabi.

The Most Prominant Personalities

Sahibzada Abdul Qayum Khan (Founder of Islamia College) Kernal Sher Khan Shaheed Sajjad Ali Shah (Engineering Manager, Palm Jumaira Project Dubai)

Popular Games

the popular games of swabi are volley ball, cricket and foot ball. swabi is regarded as one of the few best vooley ball nurseries in the country. and the reason is that many of the national team players are from this district including former national volley ball team captain raheem, along with gohar ali, naveed iqbal etc. apart from volley ball foot ball is very famous in this part of the country.

The Hub of Streams and Rivers

Swabi is home to dozens of streams and two great rivers - Indus and the Kabul river. Both the rivers meet at a place called Kund, another major tourist attraction. The Indus river with its spectacular blue color and the Kabul river's muddy brown water go side by side without blending. It is a treat to watch these two rivers hug each other quietly for thousands of years in its own special way.

Gadoon Amazai

Gadoon Amazai is one of the biggest Industrial estate of NWFP. Here once situated 580 industries and mills but due to no proper planning it is losing its charm. There are more reasons the biggest one is that the owners were not giving to workers their rights. 12 hour working, no weekend leave, no cadual leave, no medical leave were allowed to workers. Labour law of Pakistan was nothing in front of industrialist because many of them were ministers and members assemblies. Often workers did demonstration and government withdrawal incentive because the industrialist were making money only and were sending their products to others parts of Pakistan in low rates while others industrialist from different parts of Pakistan were also against them and so on many more reasons. One reason was that also the people of Gadoon were not happy of industrial estate because the industrialist were not giving rights to workers and even not giving jobs to them while often labours leaders if do something for labours they always charged in falls cases and often put in jails. Most of them are still wanted in many falls charges and they live hide of government eyes so when incentive were withdrawal local people and labour leaders not take any action and so government withdrawal incentive. And it's also cause of disturbance of Gadoon Amazai industrial estate.

Tourist Areas

When one enters Swabai from Jehangira there exist a park on the bank of river Indus and Kabul that is naming Kund park it is situated in Tordher. People came here from different areas of N.W.F.P And Punjab to see Kund Park. Another tourist area is Ghazi-Bharota dam, which lies near Topi and Tarbela. Mahaban Hill in Gadoon has a scenic beauty like Swat and other hilly areas. Here exist a resort, naming as Pir Galai, which is 6000 feet above the sea level and from here one can have glance at Mansehra, Buner and Kaghan Hills. The Tomb of Yousaf Khan in village Shera Ghund, near Shewa Adda. Template:NWFP

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