Manglawar

Manglawar is an administrative unit, known as Union council of Tehsil Babuzai, of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan and former capital of Kingdom of Swat.
It is located at 34°48'30.7"N 72°25'50.0"E with an average altitude of 987 meters.

Administrative division

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.
According to this division Manglawar is Union Council which also includes Union Council Aka Maruf Khel i-e: 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 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. District Swat has 67 wards, of which the total number 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 Gudyan Khel, Haqdad Khel, Mazid Khel, Malakanan, Miangan, Mulan and other racial groups.
Manglawar East consists of small Mohallas :

Shingrai
Salanda
Said Abad
Azimabad
Murad Abad
Gul Mayera
Azgharai
Enzartangai
Dewangai
Batra
Shakhorai
Tekai
Mohalla Haqdad Khel
Kuz Mazid Khel
Mazid Khel Bala
Mohalla BakhtMand Khan
Mohalla Gudyan Khel
Mohalla Madi Khel
Mohalla Saidan

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

Number of registered 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 number 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 Esa Khel,''Musa Khel, Burhan Khel, Mir Khel, Usman Khel, Langar Khel, Bibal Khel, Fateh Khan Khel, Dawlat Khel,Miangan, Mulan'' and other peoples.
Manglawar West consists of small mohallas :
1. Mohalla Esa Khel
2. Ali Khan Khel
3. Fateh Khan Khel
4. Bibal Khel
5. Rahat Abad
6. Kara
7. Kalkata
8. Zanagram
9. Miangan
10. Garai Kalay
11. Manglawar Pul
12. Malak Nagar
13. Dawlat Khel
14. Tawheed Abad
15. Shaheed Abad
16. Gulshan Colony Maira
17. Cheel
18. Mohalla Bakht Pur Khan
19. Bhatai
20. Shakaray
21. Shaldara (

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 government, consisting of District Councilor and Tehsil Councilor.
According to Election Commission of Pakistan the following are the Cabinet for five years:

S.No	Designation	Name
1	District Councilor Ward Manglawar	Sarwar Khan
2	Tehsil Councilor Ward Manglawar	Buneray Khan
3	Chairman VC Manglawar East	Hanifa Gul
4	Vice Chairman VC Manglawar East	Arshad Ali
5	Chairman VC Manglawar West	Iftikhar Khan
6	Vice Chairman VC Manglawar West	Barkat Ali

Before this Nazim and Naib Nazim in 2002 were Malak Bakhtmand Khan and Haji Bakhtiar Khan.

Population

In 2017-18 the population of Manglawar was estimated at 37,147.

Education

Educational institutes

Government sector

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

S.No	Category of schools	Number
1	Govt primary schools	39
2	Govt high schools	3
3	Govt maktab schools	1
4	Govt maktab primary schools	4
	Total number of government boys' schools	47

Sports

Residents of Manglawar take a keen interest in sports. Local games include Parpatonay, Amprakakay, Tekaan , Gwatai, Shengrii , 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 the West side of Manglawar near Sangota and Excelsior College Swat, opposite to Pakistan State Oil Fuel Station, and beside Miangul Abdul Haq Jahanzeb Kidney Hospital. In the playground, the youth of Manglawar plays after dawn time. The approximate Length of Manglawar Playground is 195 meters and width is 70 meters. There are football posts and goalposts. You can also play Cricket.

Football teams

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

Manglawar Eleven Football Club
Prince Football club Manglawar
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 Rahmat Ali ChaCha, 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 cricket club
Manglawar Lions
Addresses

Post office

Manglawar Swat has BO which works under GPO Saidu Sharif.

Postal Code

of Manglawar shaldar is 19201. While postal code of Saidu Sharif GPO is 19200.

ZIP Code

of Swat is 19200. So Manglawar also has ZIP code 19200.

Fame

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

Manglawar is famous for, as it is having the second biggest rock carved Buddha Statue at Jahan Abad in Central Asia after Buddha of Bamiyan.
Dwa Saro, the second highest mountain in Swat of approximately 10,000 feet from Sea level.
Malka Swat, Queen of Swat, Shahida Bibi who was also the Sister of Malak Ahmad Baba was from here, also now she is buried in Dherai Manglawar.
Sultan Awais Swati the last emperor of Kingdom of Swat was from Manglawar, the remains of the castle are still observable. He was from Swati tribe whose descendants are now living in Mansehra.
Sultan Pakhal Swati founded Kingdom of Swat with capital as Manglawar.
It is said that Mubaraka Yusufzai, the wife of Babur, was from Manglawar.
Manglawar, the ancient capital of Kingdom of Swat/ Pakhal Sarkar.
Tourist attraction to Waterfall in Shingrai.
Fishes, Manglawar has a river where best variety of fishes having a mouth-watering taste, hunters came from far flung areas to quench their desire with the piquant taste.
Furniture and woodworking handicrafts work is also famous made for the locally produced wood from the jungles of Manglawar.
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 are famous for their beauty.
Pul Shopar is a food, people from far areas used to enjoy it mostly on Friday. etc.
Former capital

- A famous Pashtun historian wrote about Sultan Pakhal on the page no 8 of his book Malika E Swat that "At the time Yusufzai were exiled from Kabul, at that time Sultan Pakhil was the king of Swat. It is said that from Ashnagar to the top of Malakand and the whole of Swat including its territories and suburbs and the whole of Bunir was under the control of Sultan Pakhil. Sultan Pakhil himself lived in the fort of Mangalore. This fort, which was the base of the Sultanate of Swat, was very populated during the era of the Sultanate of Swat. Inside and outside there were colorful houses and strange havelis, tall palaces and primitive rivers flowing inside the fort. The bazaar was colorful and the shops were decorated. Outside the fort on the west side was the royal mausoleum which is still preserved."

Hospitals

Miangul Abdul Haq Jahanzeb Kidney Hospital

Miangul Abdul Haq Jahanzeb Kidney Hospital is situated in Garai Kalay Manglawar Swat. It is a 110-bed hospital and was a Project of Punjab Hospitals Trust. It is spread over 32 Kanal at a cost of. According to officials, the hospital has 40-bed urology and 40-bed nephrology units that provide all sorts of services including free surgeries at three state-of-the-art operation theatres for renal diseases. They added that on average, 90 dialysis treatments were conducted at the facility which had also ICU and HDU to cope with seriously ill patients.