Bani Afghan (بنى افغان - children of Afghan) is a village located in Mianwali District of Punjab Province in Kala Bagh (قلعه باغ "Garden of the Citadel") in Pakistan.[1] The village contains an elementary school.[2] The Village Resident are mostly Pashtun tribe that have come from different areas that includes kutch tander khel ,borh khoi ,asghari, kayaki, kani and jamrah. The Area is approximately 3 to 4 KM from CPEC and masan railway station. It is gateway to District Attock. Furthermore, it also connects to Chakrala and Bin Hafiz G.
Bani Afghan
بنى افغان | |
|---|---|
Village | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Mianwali Punjab, Pakistan |
| Elevation | 319 m (1,047 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+5 |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+6 (PDT) |
History edit
Bani Afghan's residents are indigenous residents in Punbjab they have not been among refugees for the past forty years related to the coups in Afghanistan in the 1970s or since the Soviet occupation since 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 (Sanskrit) 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 (Afghan, Pathan, Rohilla and Pashtun) have lived in Iranian and Indian cultural areas for centuries and have also ruled in both cultures. Sher Shah Suri (1486 – 22 May 1545) or Sado Khan (11 October 1558 in Multan, died on 18 March 1627 in Kandahar ruled in India and also in Iran. Sado Khan was the ancestor of Dowlat Khan, grandfather of Ahmad Khan Abdali (founder of the Durrani dynasty).
AOA
Muhammad shoaib
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.
Other localities and cities in India and Pakistan edit
- Kala Afgana (قلعه افغانا "the Afgana Citadel")
- Ghari Afghanan (گڑھی افغانان "the Afganan Citadel") Ghari (گڑھی ) or Kala (قلعه) is for Fort. In India's history, was Nawab or rulers built such large buildings as fortresses or Cidalel. In Persian called Dazh or Arg.
- Nakkah Afghan Punjab, Pakistan
- Kiri Afghānān Punjab India
- Injra Afghan
- Afghan Kachi Basti Pakistan
- Daman Afghani Pakistan
- Bhati Afghana Narowal, Punjab, Pakistan
Sher Shah Suri by Breshna - Afghana (Jhelum) Punjab
- Fatehpur Afghanan
See also edit
- Afghana
- Bene Israel in Indien
- Maghzan-e-Afghani
Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan edit
- Afghan Refugees Camp, Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- Afghan Mahajrin Camp Immigrants, Pakistan
- Kalkatak Afghan Refugees Camp, Pakistan
- Khairabad Afghan Rafugees Camp, Pakistan
- Afghan Refugees Camp Number One, Balochistan, Pakistan
- Afghan Refugees Camp Number Five, Balochistan, Pakistan
- Afghan Mahajarin Camp - Balochistan, Pakistan
- Khairabad Afghan Rafugees Camp Pakistan
Books edit
- Richardson, John. (1777).[3] A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 84952352
- Adamec, Ludwig W: The A to Z of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies , ISBN 978-0810849488
- Frank Clements, Ludwid W. Adamec: Conflict in Afghanistan: A Historical 1.ed. Santa Barbara, 1942, ISBN 1-85109-402-4
References edit
- ^ "BBCUrdu.com". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
- ^ "GES Bani Afghan Mianwali - School Info & Teachers Profiles". UrduPoint. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
- ^ A Dictionary, Persian, Arabic, and English