Phagora
Phagora is a village of union council Rajdhari in Battagram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa along the main silk route or SHAHRA-E-RESHAM. Phagora Village is one of the biggest village in Battagram and is located in mountainous area of Hazara Division. Phagora is 7 km from district headquarters Battagram and 200 km from the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad.
Temperature of the area remains moderate; usually, however, the summer goes up to peak 30 °C sometimes and winter below 10 °C.
Although, the village situated at the level where Temperature and Sunshining is most Comfortable for residents and for
Fruits trees
as compare to the upper mountain and area below from Phagora village
Demographics
Phagora is one of the most populated Pashtun villages and the main tribe living in Phagora is Swatis which are subdivided into three main Khels, Among them are Ghouri Khels, Bhai Khels, and Naral Khels. The fourth is Akhunzadgan which are not a tribe like these three but a bigger tribe from these three. Others are Kalanderkhail, Gujars, Hindkies, Shahikhail, Jewelers/Zargar, Gulabiaan, & Carpenters etc. In the times of Mohammad Ghouri, they came to Swat from Shalman in Afghanistan and defeated the Hindus to establish their rule in that valley. According to a Swati tradition, they ruled Swat and Bajaor for four centuries before the Yousafzais invasion that drove them to Battagram & Mansehra about the end of the 17th century. The main language spoken in Phagora is Pashto.Education
Pa Gora has an overall poor literacy rate in Battagram district, perhaps there is a crisis of education in the village. Over the years, though this trend has changed as compared to a decade ago people appreciate the education. After the 2005 Earth Quack mind set up of the people is getting changed from labour working, shop running or other earnings means toward education. Now in the village, there are four young PhD doctors graduated from abroad, other are doctors, Engineers, Advocates, teachers etc, most of the student are tend to science i.e. medical or engineering while very few think about social sciences. Education facilities in the area are college level. One of the oldest schools is Government Boys Middle school Phagora which is now upgraded as a high school. The private sector has recently initiated schools in the village and two schools are operative in the private sector, however, both are up to the middle level.Female literacy is worst in the area and this is evident by the fact that the village has not produced any single female educationist, doctor or banker etc. Girls education schools were only up to the primary level until recently one of the school has been upgraded to the Middle level, Majority of the people are reluctant to female education due to their strict ignorant ideology. Though recently basic religious education facilities are established by the locals, it does not provide any modern education. There are also primary schools for boys and girls in the surroundings areas of Phagora. It is tragic that females are deprived of their right to education due to wrong interpretations of religion, though Islam encourages women education. Overall, the literacy rate in the area is extremely poor. Government Degree college Battagram is located within a mile from the village.
Health facilities
Public sector health facility in the area is a Basic Health Unit Phagora located in front of the village. Tertiary healthcare facility for the people is main district headquarters hospital Battagram. Overall public health facilities in the area are extremely poor. The BHU is not sufficient to cater the needs of this thickly populated area. Most people rely on private sector facilities for medical treatment. Many people go to Abbottabad to avail tertiary health facilities and this causes excessive burden on the locals to afford very expensive treatment provided by private outlets.Due to poor medical regulation in district Battagram, unqualified people are working as illegitimate medical practitioners in the village. The treatment provided by these people have caused many deaths due to wrong treatment, however people of the village hardly know about such practice.