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5 unusual facts about Mardan


Dasht-e Yahudi

The word Dasht-e Yahudi was used for the most Western parts of modern-day Peshawar, Charsadda, Malakand and Mardan districts where these border with Khyber and Mohmand Agencies.

The term was used by Persian and early Mughal historians for a stretch of territory that comprised the most Western parts of modern-day Peshawar, Charsadda, Malakand and Mardan districts where these border with Khyber Agency and Mohmand Agency.

Dheri

Kakakhel (tribe) inhabitants of Mardan District mainly belong to the village of "Baghicha Dheri" (meaning fruit bearing hill), previously known as Surkh Dheri (meaning red rock).

Shergarh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Shergarh, Mardan, a town in Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Toru, Pakistan

Toru is located South of Mardan City, surrounded by two perennial nullahs called Kalpani and Balar; the former descends down from the heights of Malakand to the plains of this vast, fertile tract, while the later comes from the adjacent district of Swabi.


Ali Mardan Khilji

Ali Mardan Khilji dethroned Ghiyas-ud-din Iwaz Khilji and styled himself as the independent sultan of Bengal in 1210.

Godfrey Meynell

His body is laid to rest at the Guides Chapel in Mardan, near Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province, where he and his wife were married.

Harry Burnett Lumsden

The regiment was located at Mardan on the Peshawar border, and became one of the most famous in the Indian army.

Hoti

Hoti, Pakistan, a region in the Mardan District of the North-West Frontier Province.

Khan Abdul Ali Khan

Khan Abdul Ali Khan (20 August 1922 - 19 February 1997) was a Pakistani educationist, former Principal of Islamia College Peshawar, Fazle Haq College Mardan, Aitchison College, former Vice Chancellor of Peshawar University, Gomal University and former Education Secretary.

Khushal Khan Khattak

The Khattak tribe of Khushal Khan now mostly lives in areas of Karak, Kohat, Nowshera, Akora Khattak, Cherat, Peshawar, Mardan and in other parts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Qazi Syed Inayatullah

: In this same fight with Sikhs, Qazi Ali Mardan ibn Qazi Ghulam Naqshband of Rewari was also died in his Haveli.

The Fazlehaq College Mardan

The Fazlehaq College Mardan was brought into existence by the Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (then North-West Frontier Province) General (r) Fazle Haq and the educationist Abdul Ali Khan (son of the politician Bacha Khan) and brother of the pukhthoon poet, thinker and philosopher Abdul Ghani Khan in the 1980s.

Toru

Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan


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