In March 1852,[1] a brigade was sent after them under the command of Lord Clyde, which raided Dargai and Kharkai – small villages of the Ranizai tribe at the bottom of the Malakand Pass.

The attackers were well equipped with artillery, so the Ranizais accepted a ransom of Rs.5000 and thereafter proclaimed jihad or holy war in the Buner Valley, at that time ruled by Syed Akhbar Shah Badshah.

[clarification needed] In 1895, British army major Sir Arlo along with Colonel Kelly started a war against Umara Khan, a sardar and politician whom Winston Churchill called the Afghan Napoleon.

[2] The British camped at Dargai and Kharkai before a huge battle in the Malakand pass during which the Swat Ranizais displayed great valour.

History records the valour of a woman belonging to a respectable family of Dehri Alladand who fought day and night as well as provided food and water to the mujahideen and who died with her sword drawn.

His tomb stands at the bottom of Elephant Pass (Hathi Darrah) to the south of the village of Zulamkot in Dehri Alladand in Malakand.

The Heights were held by Afridi tribesmen but were successfully stormed by the Gordon Highlanders and the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles on 20  October 1897.

The two power houses at Dargai and Jabban have recently been supplemented by a third 81 MW facility Malakand-III hydropower station completed in 2008.