Shoukatabad
Encyclopedia
Shoukatabad is a Union Council
of Mansehra District
in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
. It is located to the north-west of the district capital Mansehra
.
Union Councils of Pakistan
A sherwan or village council in Pakistan is an elected local government body consisting of 21 councillors, and headed by a nazim and a naib nazim...
of Mansehra District
Mansehra District
Mansehra District is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, an area still unofficially known as the Northwest Frontier. Mansehra district and town are named after Man Singh, a leading general of Mughal Emperor Akbar...
in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. It is located to the north-west of the district capital Mansehra
Mansehra
Mansehra city is located at in Mansehra District, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is very near to Abbottabad city. It is a major stop for tourists on the Karakoram Highway which leads to China...
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Notable people
- Major shaukat khan (martyred in Punjab in 1971 war with India shaukatabad is named after him)
- Haji Akbar Khan Jagirdar of jagir gidharpur (owner of 90 villages and forest range)
- Haji Ali Gohar Khan (First MLA, NWFP. Was awarded the title of Sir Syed of Hazara)
- Ahmad khan (first matriculate of hazara division in 1886 British government officer martyred in masjid while offering isha. president of anjuman islamia pakhli)
- Muhammad Ghafoor Khan (Member Federal Public Services Commission)
- Muhammad Yaqub Khan (Secretary B&R. NWFP)
- Muhammad Daud Khan (Justice Peshawar High Court)
- Col. Rtd Aftab S. Ahmad (Chief Psychologist Pakistan Army)
- Col. Rtd Salahuddin (51 medium)
- Col. Rtd M.Khalid Khan (10 Punjab)(Khan of Sherpur)
- Allauddin Khan (Nazim)
- Engineer Ziauddin (chief engineer Public Health)
- Major Junaid Salahuddin Swati (51 medium)