Kalu Khan

Town in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Kalu Khan

کالوخان

Town

Flag

Kalu Khan

Coordinates: 34°13′0″N 72°18′0″E﻿ / ﻿34.21667°N 72.30000°E﻿ / 34.21667; 72.30000
Country| Pakistan
Province| Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
District| Razzar, Swabi District
Elevation

| 317 m (1,040 ft)
Population

• Total

| 39,432

Kalu Khan is a village located between Shawwa-Adda and Adina village on the main Mardan–Swabi road in Khyber–Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[1][2]

The people of the area belong to the Mandanr-Yousafzai (Isapzai in Pashto) branch of Afghans through mythical confederation patriarch Mand and his sons. The village is eponymous to the 16th century ruling chief of the region, Kalu Khan Yousafzai, an Afghan warrior who annihilated 8,000-50,000 troops of Emperor Akbar at the Karakar Pass in 1586 during the Afghan-Mughal wars, one of the greatest Mughal defeats in history.[3][4][5][6][7]

Kalu Khan was upgraded to the status of Tehsil Headquarters of District Swabi during the ANP (Awami National Party/ملي اولسي ګوند) government term in the province between 2008 and 2013.[citation needed]

It is located at 34°13'0N 72°18'0E with an altitude of 317 meters (1043 feet).[8]

## References

[edit]

1. ^ Tehsils and Union Councils in the District of Swabi Wayback Machine Archive
2. ^ On the Accounts of Local Governments District Swabi Audit Report 2022-23 – Auditor General
3. ^ Yusufzai's in Mughal History by Farah Samrin
4. ^ Richards, John F. (1993). The Mughal Empire. Cambridge University Press. pp. 50–51\. ISBN 978-0-521-56603-2.
5. ^ Micheal Fisher (2016). A Short History Of The Mughal Empire. pp. 132–133.
6. ^ Sharma, S. R. (1940). Mughal Empire In India. p. 278.
7. ^ Symist (27 January 2019). INDIA: Brief History Volume 2. Symist. pp. 35–36.
8. ^ Location of Kalu Khan - Falling Rain Genomics