Bani Afghan


Bani Afghan is a village in the Mianwali District of Punjab Province, within Kala Bagh in Pakistan. The village has an elementary school and is primarily inhabited by Pashtun tribes from various areas, including Kutch Tander Khel, Borh Khoi, Asghari, Kayaki, Kani, and Jamrah. The village is about 4 kilometres from the CPEC and Massan railway station, serving as a gateway to Attock District and providing connections to Chakrala and Bin Hafiz Jee.

History

The residents of Bani Afghan are indigenous to Punjab and have not been part of the refugee movements caused by the coups in Afghanistan during the 1970s or the Soviet occupation in the 1980s. The camps of the Afghan refugees are marked even in Khyber Paktunkhwa in Urdu and English. Refugees still live today, but there are various cities in Multan, Mardan on another cities of Pakistan and before 1947 in India, indigenous peoples of the Afghans or Pashtuns, who are mainly referred to in the Indian subcontinent as Rohilla or Pathan: Roh means high or peaks of the mountains and Rohilla means residents who live on high mountains. Pathan means man who is reliable. Pashtuns means sitting on the horse: rider. This people with four names have lived in Iranian and Indian cultural areas for centuries and have also ruled in both cultures. Sher Shah Suri or Sado Khan.
Cpak in Bani Afghan was started in 2018 and completed in 2023 which passes by Bani Afghan railway station. Bani Afghan is an open vast and mountainous area.

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Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan

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