Manglawar

Manglawar (also spelled Manglor) (Urdu: منگلور‎; Pashto: منګلور‎) is an administrative unit, known as Union council or Ward of Tehsil Babuzai, of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is located at 34°48'30.7"N 72°25'50.0"E with an average altitude of 987 meters (3,238.19 feet).

Manglawar
Union council
منګلور
منگلور
View of the village
Manglawar
Showing Manglawar in Pakistan
Coordinates: 34.47°N 72.43°E / 34.47; 72.43
Country Pakistan
Province Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictSwat
TehsilTehsil Babuzai
Union CouncilUnion Council Manglawar
Ward (KPK)Ward Manglawar
Village Council (KPK)
  • VC Manglawar East
  • VC Manglawar West
Government
 • District CouncilorSarwar Khan
 • Tehsil CouncilorBuneray Khan
 • Nazim VC EastHanifa Gul
 • Nazim VC WestIftikhar Ali Khan
Elevation
987 m (3,238 ft)
Population
 • Total37,147
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)
Calling code0946
Websitehttp://manglorswat.blogspot.com/

Administrative division
Glimpse of Khambo Dand Manglawar
The village is near the Shingrai waterfall.

Manglawar is divided into sub-parts for better administrative hold. Manglawar is divided on the basis of two systems:

  • 1967-based:

This division is based upon West Pakistan Land Revenue Act, 1967 (W.P. Act No. XVII of 1967).[2] According to this division Manglawar is Union Council which also includes Union Council Aka Maruf Khel i-e: (Bishbanr, Kass, Banjot & Sar Sardaray) Goratai, Taligram etc. This system is still used in most of Patwar and Land revenue systems.

  • KPK Local Government-based:

This division is based upon the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government System[3] and Act 2013 which was recommended on 31 October 2013, and was practically applied in Local Bodies Election May 2015 by Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf officials, as they are ruling at the time. According to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Government Act 2013.[4] District Swat has 67 wards, of which total amount of village councils is 170, and neighborhood councils is 44.

According to this system Manglawar is a ward which is further divided into two village councils:

  • Manglawar East
  • Manglawar West

Manglawar East

Manglawar East, also known as Manglawar No.1 or Aka Maruf, is a Village Council. It is situated on East side of Manglawar. Manglawar East is inhabited by Akamaroof Pashtuns which is a sub tribe or clan of Babuzai. Manglawar East, Akamaroof consist of Haqdad Khel, Mazid Khel, Malakanan, Miangan, Mulan and other racial groups. Manglawar East consists of small Mohallas (Mohallas; A bunch of Houses in one place):

  1. Shingrai (Pashto: شنګرئ‎)
  2. Salanda (Pashto: سالنډه‎)
  3. Said Abad (Pashto: سيد آباد‎)
  4. Azimabad (Pashto: عظیم آباد‎)
  5. Murad Abad (Pashto: مراد آباد‎)
  6. Gul Mayera (Pashto: ګل ميره‎)
  7. Azgharai (Pashto: ازغرې‎)
  8. Enzartangai (Pashto: انځرتنګې‎)
  9. Dewangai (Pashto: ديوانګې‎)
  10. Batra (Pashto: باترا‎)
  11. Shakhorai (Pashto: شخورئ‎)
  12. Tekai (Pashto: ټکې‎)
  13. Kuz Mazid Khel (Pashto: کوز مزيد خيل‎)
  14. Mazid Khel Bala (Pashto: بر مزيد خيل‎)
  15. Mohalla BakhtMand Khan (Pashto: محله بخت مند خان‎)
  16. Gudyan (Pashto: ګوډيان‎)
  17. Mohalla Madi Khel (Pashto: محله مدې خيل‎)
  18. Mohalla Saidan (Pashto: محله سيدان‎)

Manglawar comes in Manglawar Ward No.39 East-1. The following are details on electoral point of view (LG Election 2015):

  • Amount of register voters is 9175.
  • Of which male is 5055 and female is 4125.
  • Charge No: 308
  • Circle No: 07
  • Block No: 01, 04, 05, 06 & 08
  • Block Code: 003080701, 003080704, 003080705, 003080706, 003080708
  • The amount of allotted seats for General Councilor is: 9.

Manglawar West

Manglawar West also known as Manglawar No.2 or Bami Khel is a Village Council. It is situated on West side of Manglawar. Manglawar West is inhabited by Bami Khel Pashtuns which is a sub tribe of Babuzai. Manglawar West also known as Bami Khel consisted of Musa Khel, Burhan Khel, Mir Khel, Usman Khel, Langar Khel, Bibal Khel, Fateh Khan Khel, Dawlat Khel, Esa Khel, Miangan, Mulan and other peoples.

Manglawar West consists of small mohallas (a bunch of houses in one place):

  1. Ali Khan Khel (Pashto: علي خان خيل‎)
  2. Fateh Khan Khel (Pashto: فتح خان خيل‎)
  3. Bibal Khel (Pashto: بيبل خيل‎)
  4. Rahat Abad (Gharib Abad) (Pashto: راحت آباد ، غريب آباد‎)
  5. Kara (Pashto: کړه‎)
  6. Kalkata (Pashto: کالکټه‎)
  7. Zanagram (Pashto: زنګرام‎)
  8. Miangan (Pashto: مياګان‎)
  9. Mohalla Esa Khel (Pashto: محله عيسي خيل‎)
  10. Garai Kalay (Pashto: ګړئ کلې‎)
  11. Manglawar Pul (Pashto: منګلور پل‎)
  12. Malak Nagar (Pashto: ملک نګر‎)
  13. Dawlat Khel (Pashto: دولت خيل‎)
  14. Tawheed Abad (Pashto: توحيد آباد‎)
  15. Shaheed Abad (Pashto: شهيد آباد‎)
  16. Gulshan Colony Maira (Pashto: ګلشن کالوني ميره‎)
  17. Cheel (Pashto: چيل‎)
  18. Mohalla Bakht Pur Khan (Pashto: محله بخت پور خان‎)
  19. Bhatai (Pashto: بټئ‎)
  20. Shakaray (Pashto: شکرې‎)
  21. Shaldara (Pashto: شلدره‎)

Local Bodies Election 2015

Local Bodies Elections were held on May 29, 2015. Manglawar East and West have their own Chairman and Vice Chairman.

Manglawar is a whole Ward having its own local Ggvernment, consisting of District Councilor and Tehsil Councilor.[5] According to Election Commission of Pakistan the following are the Cabinet for five years:

S.NoDesignationName
1District Councilor Ward ManglawarSarwar Khan
2Tehsil Councilor Ward ManglawarBuneray Khan
3Chairman VC Manglawar EastHanifa Gul
4Vice Chairman VC Manglawar EastArshad Ali
5Chairman VC Manglawar WestIftikhar Khan
6Vice Chairman VC Manglawar WestBarkat Ali

Before this Nazim (Chairman) and Naib Nazim (Vice Chairman) in 2002 were Malak Bakhtmand Khan (Late) and Haji Bakhtiar Khan (Late).

Population

In 1998 population of Manglawar was 164000.[6] Total population of Manglawar is estimated to be around 45 thousands.[7][8]

Education

Government sector

Total number of government boys' schools in Manglawar are: 47 [9] Details of which are given below:

S.NoCategory of schoolsNumber
1Govt primary schools (GPS)39
2Govt high schools (GHS)3
3Govt maktab schools (GMS)1
4Govt maktab primary schools (GMPS)4
Total number of government boys' schools47

Sports

Residents of Manglawar take a keen interest in sports. Local games include Parpatonay, Amprakakay, Tekaan (Belwori), Gwatai, Shengrii (Qoramban), Qat, Ludo, Ghal bacha, Peetogaram, Da simano elay, Chendakh, Parai, and Neenzaki. They also play football, cricket and badminton.

Manglawar Ground

Manglawar has its own ground on West side of Manglawar near Sangota and Excelsior College Swat, opposite to Pakistan State Oil Fuel Station, and beside Nawaz Sharif Kidney Hospital Manglawar Swat. In playground youth of Manglawar plays in after dawn time. Approximate Length of Manglawar Playground is 195 meters and width is 70 meters (9 Kanal, 17 Marley). There is football posts and nets are placed. Facility of playing Cricket is also available.

Football teams

Manglawar currently has a number of football teams, which takes part in Village based and Inter District. They are:

  • Manglawar Eleven Football Club
  • Prince Eleven Football club
  • Eleven star Manglawar
  • Al sayed Salanda

Manglawar had very famous teams in past like Tofan Eleven and Brazil Eleven. Manglawar have some legends of footballers named Rahim Ali, Duraj Khan and Rokhan.

Manglawar also had junior teams, including

  • United Manglawar
  • Young Man Manglor
  • Eagle star fc
  • Young 11 Manglor
  • Shaghai fc Manglawar
  • Intezar fc

Cricket teams

Cricket teams are as follows:

  • Manglawar Eleven Cricket Club
  • Manglawar Titans
  • Skylark Manglawar
  • Hunter Cricket Club Manglawar
  • Manglawar Gladiator
  • Manglawar lions

[10]

Addresses

Post office

Manglawar Swat has BO (Branch Office)[11] which works under GPO Saidu Sharif.[11][12] [13]

Postal Code

Postal Code of Manglawar is 19201.[11] While postal code of Saidu Sharif GPO is 19200.[12][14]

ZIP Code

ZIP code of Swat (Station: Saidu Sharif) is 19200. So Manglawar also has ZIP code 19200.[15]

Fame

Manglawar is famous for many things. Some of them are:

  • Manglawar is famous for, as it is having the 2nd biggest Rock curved Buddha Statue (formally called as Budh Ghat) situated at Jahan Abad (Janabad) in Central Asia after Buddha of Bamiyan.[16][17][18][19][20]
  • DwaSaro, the 2nd highest mountain in Swat of approximately 10,000 feet from Sea level.[21]
  • Malka Swat, the queen of Malak Ahmad Baba (Founder of Yusufzai in Swat) was from here, also now she is buried in Dherai Manglawar.[22]
  • Sultan Awais (Sultan’was) the last emperor of Swati Yousafzai state[23][24] was from Manglawar, the remains of the castle are still observable.
  • It is said that Mubaraka Yusufzai, the wife of Babur, was from Manglawar.
  • Manglawar, the ancient capital of Swat (Udyana[25] or Swastu).[26][27][28][29]
  • Tourist attraction to Waterfall in Shingrai.[30]
  • Fishes, Manglawar has a river where best variety of fishes having mouth-watering taste, hunters came from far flung areas to quench their desire with the piquant taste.
  • Furniture and wood working handicrafts work is also famous made for the locally produced wood from the jungles of Manglawar.[31][32][33]
  • Cement rocks which is in Shingrai.
  • Manglawar is site for the best Rabab players, and loke singer of Pashto music.
  • For Education, as compared to Swat, Manglawar has more than educated people from other places.
  • Cobbler’s make shoes, which is famous for its beauty.
  • Pul Shopar (Gungri also known as cocktail) is a food, people from far areas used to enjoy it mostly on Friday. etc.

Hospitals

Nawaz Sharif Kidney Hospital
Main article: Nawaz Sharif Kidney Hospital Swat

Nawaz Sharif Kidney Hospital [NSKH] (Often called: Nawaz Sharif Kidney Hospital and Postgraduate Institute Manglawar Swat KPK) is situated in Garai Kalay Manglawar Swat. It is named after Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (Prime Minister of Pakistan) as it is gifted and funded by him. It is 116-bed hospital, with 12 Dialysis machines and Air Conditioning which is spread over 32 kanals at cost of 600 million rupees.It is a Project of Punjab Hospitals Trust.[34] The hospital has an OPD, Male and Female Wards, an Operation Theatre, a Dialysis Unit and other basic facilities.[35]

Economy

Crops & Fruits

The village climate is favorable for many crops and fruits. The village not only fulfill their own need but also supply its product to other areas. Among these Apricots (Pashto: خوبانئ‎), Palms, & Peach, Maze, Wheat, Rice (Pashto: شولې‎), Vegetables are more common.[36][37]

Insurgency

During insurgency period of Swat, People of Manglawar suffered from Terrorism of extremists. But rather than other parts of Swat, Manglawar was very less suffered. Because of less involvement of people in such instances. When Pakistani military agrees on doing operation against terrorism, people of Manglawar migrated from their homes to Peshawar, Mardan, Swabi, Nowshera etc. First they migrated on 25 Oct, 2007 during Operation Rah-e-Haq, and then on 16 May 2009 during operation Operation Rah-e-Rast During these black days one of high profile Miangul Asfandyar Amir Zeb was assassinated in Kass Manglawar on December 28, 2007 with six of his supporters including Malak Bakhtmand khan and Zahir Shah Khan.[38]

Miscellaneous

Babagan

Baz Dada(in Manglawar bazar), Mian Shah Rasool baba (in Manglawar ada), Mian Shekh baba(in Shakhorai) are spiritual people which are buried in Manglawar. There are many folk tales attached to them in local people. In Manglawar a brave women fighter is also graved named as Shaheeda Abai.

Bank

National Bank of Pakistan(Branch Code 231639 or 1639) is situated near Manglawar Pul. [39]

Time zone

Time zone of Manglawar is Pakistan Standard Time: PST (UTC+5).

e-Sahulat

e-Sahulat (Branch Code: 61317) is situated in a Mall which is situated near Manglawar Pul / Bridge. [40]

Shingrai Waterfall
Shingrai Waterfall
Shingro Dand
Shingrai Waterfall in spring
LocationManglawar, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Coordinates34.79°N 72.47°E / 34.79; 72.47
TypeCascade
Total height9 m (30 ft)
Average width21 m (70 ft)

Shingrai Waterfall[41] (often called: ShingroDand) is situated in Shingrai Manglawar, which is situated in Swat Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa the province of Pakistan.[42] It is located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) from Manglawar and about 18 kilometres (11 mi) northeast of Mingora. Shingrai Waterfall is about 3,000 metres (10,000 ft) above sea level. It is 21 metres (70 ft) wide and about 9 metres (30 ft) in height.[43][44][45]

See also

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