Martung, Mārtung or Martoong (Urdu: مارتونگ) is a highland village and tehsil of Shangla District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan included in Puran Subdivision.

[3] Martung is a green valley situated in the south-east of Shangla District, about 5 km north-west from River Indus.

Major villages of the sub tehsil include Kabalgram, Pishlor, Titwalan, Koozkalai, Manzkalai, Shaga and Karindara.

The name "Martung" is supposed to be derived from the word "Mar Tuang" meaning snake charmer basket.

Central Martung is relatively a low altitude valley surrounded by high hills from all around resembling to a snake charmer basket.

Mingora is the largest city and trade centre in the region, but due to relatively better condition of the Buner road and less severe aftermaths of terrorist Taliban activities, people of the area prefer Buner as the nearest largest market and way of exit to the rest of the country.

Although not very cold, even then the temperature goes below freezing point in the winter and people have to keep their houses warm by burning wood.

Small pipelines stretched from such springs to one or more houses are also common there, but a proper water supply scheme does not exist.

Soil of Martung is rich and fertile but unfortunately there is no irrigation system and agriculture in the area mainly depends upon rains.

A large number of people go to big cities of the country like Lahore and Karachi for seeking low level jobs like watch men, waiters in restaurants and labourers.

Hakeem Sahib of Alamibanda is one of the notable figures of Martung, renowned for his so-called specialty in old traditional medicines.

Lacking in facilities even like chalk and black board, neither the teachers nor parents of the students take interest in the schools.

Few politically appointed female teachers seldom visit the school; most of them have hired less educated poor girls for very small amount compared to their salary to impersonate them.

After accession of the Swat State by Pakistan Government, the road had been neglected and there was no improvement until early nineteen nineties.

This was the only way of exit for the people of Puran and Martung when the Buner and Mingora roads were in-accessible because of the Taliban movement and the army operation against it in 2009.

(See Water Situation within this article for further details) "Da Shage Jang" (Means Battle of Shaga) is an important event in the history of Martung.

Shaga is one of the major villages situated in central Martung at a distance of about two kilometers from both Koozkalai and Manzkalai.

Defense of Shaga was very strong, and at the beginning they shot dead top leaders of their rivals from behind the protective wall.

For long, people of Martung have been using "Da Shage Jang" as a reference for measuring dates and counting years.

Martung was hit by severe earthquake on October 8, 2005 resulting in scores of casualties and leaving hundreds of people homeless.

People of Martung were not displaced and they did not face shelling from the security forces, but they spent their lives for months in intense fear and feeling of insecurity as the war was expected to reach the area.

They also faced shortage of food and other necessary items of daily life, lack of medicine, unavailability of communication means etc.

Being local and belonging to a notable clan in the area, Waliullah could not support Taliban openly in the duration they were fighting against Pakistan army in Swat and Buner.

He had, however, been providing shelter and way of exit to those Taliban who succeeded to reach Kabalgram from Buner via Martung.

Waliullah was respected by all the leaders of Taliban including Maulana Fazlullah as a teacher and powerful supporter of their movement.

Sensing threat to his life from both the local anti Taliban people and the army, Waliullah surrendered himself to security forces just after they entered Martung.

[7] On 12 January 2014, convoy of Amir Muqam, Senior Vice President PML-N and Adviser to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was targeted by a bomb blast at Martung killing six people including five policemen; luckily Amir Muqam had a narrow escape.[2][3].

Two brothers were arrested from Martung in November 2011 for having an apparent link with Osama bin Laden and his stay at Abbottabad .

Similarly, the suicide bomber who attacked Superintendent of Police (SP) Crime Investigation Department (CID) Chaudhry Aslam in Karachi on 9 January 2014 is said to be from Kabalgram, Martung.