Location of Swabi District (highlighted in yellow) within the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

Swabi (Urdu: صوابی) is the capital of Swabi District in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan^[1]. It is located at 34°7'0N 72°28'0E^[2]. Its residents are referred to as 'Swabi waals'. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) is geographically the smallest of the four provinces of Pakistan. ... Urdu ( , , trans. ... Swabi is district in NWFP. See also Swabi Category: ... The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) (Urdu: Å›imāl maÄ¡ribÄ« sarhadÄ« sÅ«ba شمال مغربی سرحدی صوبہ) is the smallest of the four main provinces of Pakistan. ...

Administration

As well as being district capital, Swabi serves as tehsil headquarters of Swabi Tehsil which contains 39 Union Councils^[1]. Moreover, the most famous Tarbela Dam is also in Swabi (near Topi town) and Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute (GIKI), which is famous for its quality of education is also located in Swabi District (in Topi Town). The equivalent terms tehsil, tahsil, tahasil, taluka, taluk, and taluq refer to a unit of government in some countries of the Indian subcontinent. ... Union Councils of Pakistan are local governments in Pakistan. ...

Statistics

Swabi is an agricultural area, with the main crops of Tobacco, Wheat etc. Farming is one of the living sources of the people in Swabi. However, many people are living abroad as expats, in Europe, USA and Gulf Countries, providing support to their families.

Educational Institutions

1. Government Post Graduate College, Swabi. 2. Government Commerce College, BamKhel, Swabi. 3. Government College, Lahor, Swabi. 4. Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Science and Technology, Topi, Swabi.

Personalities

Sahib Zada Abdul Qayyum Khan[1], the founder of Islamia College Peshawar[2], was originally from Topi, Swabi.

Nawab Ali Tariq social walfare activist

Villages

Swabi, Beka, Beka Dari Bamkhel, Maneri, Zaida, Shahmansoor, Wadokey Lahore (Chhota Lahore), Panj pir, Gar Munara, Marghuz, Kalabat, Topi, Tordher, Tand Kowi, Zarobi, Baja, Ismaila, Adeena, Kaloo Khan, Kernal Sher Kili, Yaar Hussain, Daagai, Hund,Kunda maira Mainai, Kotha, kunda,khan khail

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahibzada_Abdul_Qayyum_Khan

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