Panjpir

Panjpir (Pashto:پنج پیر) is a town and Union council of Swabi District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan[1] that is surrounded by Shahmansoor, Kaddi, Thand Kohi, Bam Khel, Darra and Ismailabad.Panj peer means five Sufi Saints.

The area is bounded by the mountain Panjpir Ghar to its north, Badrai Khwar to its west, the Pehur Lift Canal to its east.

Total area of Panj Pir is 3,205 Acres or 25,640 Kanals including streams, mountain, hillocks, ravines and a large cemetery.

[3] The most prominent madrassa is the Darul Quran seminary, established in 1939 by Tahir Panjpiri and nowadays headed by his son Maulana Muhammad Tayyab, which has around 20 affiliated seminaries in Karachi as well and has come under scrutiny for his links with Salafi-jihadi militancy,[4] some Panjpiri militants including TTP leaders Sufi Muhammad and Maulana Fazlullah and ISIS–K leader Hafiz Saeed Khan.

[6] Every year during Ramzan thousands of peoples from all over the province and the country attend the Darul Quran for its religious programs on the translation and explanation of the Qur’an.