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Tehsil Lakki Marwat, District Lakki Marwat, Lhyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakki_Marwat_District
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Coordinates:   32°36'10"N   70°54'45"E

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  • the city where the kind loving and most honest peaple live.
  • We proud that we are Abbakhel Marwat and the brave Pashtoon. Abbakhels are known the sardars of Marwats. Love all Pashtoons and Marwats. Tnx
  • We are proud to be Marwat. I belong from Serai Naurang.
  • Abba Khel , though nominally Sayed by descent, Marwat maidens of pure blood are not allowed to marry into this community.(Gazetteer of District Bannu, Page 228). They are not Marwats. Donot have their pedegral Record. The offsprings of Abba Shaheed are Matori, Dalo Khel, Zairan, Aba Khel and Woshi Khel. Abba Shaeeds have now amulgated themselves with all the Pashto traits of Marwats to such an extent that neither the Marwats expel them from Marwatgani i.e. Marwat brother hood, nor do they call theselves sayyeds. (Sher Mohammad Mohmand, “The Marwats” Page 56)
  • Tiwana Fort 1. To the best of my knowledge , there is not one native fort, walled village, or intrenchment of any kind, to be found among the people of Murwut.(Edward:305) 2. In 1844 Fateh Khan Tiwana, the revenue collector of the Sikh government, built and garrisoned a fort in the heart of Marwat which he called Ihsanpur. A town grew up under its walls and became the capital of Marwat . ( Hunter, Vol.XVI:130, Gazetteer of Bannu:174) 3. Tiwana Fort was on Lakki- Sarai Naurang road (now Manji wala Road) near Ziarat Lal Shah, Kankanar Nallah, Kalyaran Banda and Sohrab Banda. (Communication in Pakistan: Internet Pakistan Travel Guide) 4. “ The Fort of Lukkee, which holds Murwut in subjection, consists of an inner and an outer square enclosure, both built of mud of a very crumbly description, owing to the nature of the soil. The outer fort is one hundred yards square, and the inner one is one sixty yards. In the latter is a tank for water, on which the strength of the fort so mainly depends, that I caused Dowlat Raie to enlarge it and line it with the burnt brick at considerable cost. It is filled from the Khoorrum, not the Goombeelah. There is no well in the fort. The ditch was about eight feet wide, but I rather think Major Reynell Taylor widened it and throw up a glacis, with a covered way, on an occasion which will be related in due course. Altogether it is a good fort to control a people who have no artillery, but its walls are so rotten from the material of which they are made, that even six-pounders would break them in an hour. (Edwards:371) 5. Fateh Khan Tiwana induced by threats and promises, many of the leading classes to settle near it. ( Gazetteer of Bannu :206) 6. Old Lakki (Ihsan Pur) continued to be the capital of Marwat until 1864, when owing to a flood in the Gambilla and the never ending plague of mosquitoes due to its situation near the marshy apex of the Kurram and Gambilla Doab, Major Urmston, the then District Officer, allowed its inhabitants to flit across to the right bank of the Gambila and settle amongst the sandy cluster of villages named Mina Khel, Khoedad Khel and Sayed Khel. The people at once availed themselves of this permission, and old Lakki was abondoned. References. 1. Edwards , Herbert Benjamin “A Year On the Punjab Frontier” 1848- 49 volume 1 2. Gazetteer of the Bannu District 1883-84 Compiled and Published under the authority of the Punjab Government. 3. Hunter William Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial series, North West frontier Province, Vol. VIII, Vol XVI 1908,
  • I was student of class II when my father was posted at Lakki Marwat Railway Station (narrow gauge rail track) in 1968. I was admitted in Primary School. There was a goldsmith shop opposite to school gate then. I used to sit there to have my lunch. We left Lakki Marwat in 1969. Any body knows that school and railway station? (tahir1224@gmail.com)
  • Dear hanif Khan, is there any mud fort still in Lakki today? Bobby
  • inshaullah lawang khel lakki marwat is the best
  • Yes this school is now called government middle school No. 1 and that railway station is still exist but not functional. Ihsanullah Khan
  • Salute to your research about Lakki Marwat. Ihsanullah Khan
  • I am ihsanullah Khan from Lakki Marwat, some 30 to 35 years ago, there were a little sings of that mud fort in Lakki city and now the land is used for agriculture and vegetable growing purposes.
  • how obtained such useful and historical record of lakki marwat? Ihsanullah Khan
  • Dear Hanif, Is there any Sikh forts in Lakki or surrounding areas of Murwat today?
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