Kuthwal is one of the 51
union councilsA 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
Abbottabad DistrictAbbottabad is a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The district covers an area of 1,969 km with the city of Abbottabad being the principal town...
in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of
PakistanPakistan , 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
AbbottabadAbbottabad is a city located in the Hazara region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan. The city is situated in the Orash Valley, northeast of the capital Islamabad and east of Peshawar at an altitude of and is the capital of the Abbottabad District...
city (the district capital).
Villages
The main villages of this Union Council (UC) are Kuthwal (Well known mohallah: School Wali Gali), Bandi Mansoor (Major mohallahs: Patotay, Chandroll), Gali Banian, Chattri Balla, Danna Sharif, Maira Rehmat Khan, Mohar Kalan and Chattri Khurd. This union council is gateway to ThandianiThandiani is a hill station in the Galyat area of Pakistan.-History:Thandiani was established as a Sanatorium during British rule, for the convenience of officers stationed at the neighbouring cantonment of Abbottabad, it contained some European houses and a small bazaar, which were occupied only...
pass. The road route passing form the area diverges to three major routes at the end, each leading to Thandiani, Kukmang to Boi and Pattan to Muzaffarabad (Azad Jammu & Kashmir). The first village enroute is Gali Banian which actually consists of two villages, Gali and Banian. The main tribe is Awan with a small number of Syeds, Sardars and Abbasis. Two link roads lead from Gali, one goes to Banian and other to Danna Sharif. Danna Sharif is known by the spiritual personality of the area , Syed Iqbal Hussain Shah. The village Gali is known for having the first JamiaJamia is the Arabic word for gathering . It can also refer to a mosque, or more generally, a community or association....
mosque of the area, having separate madrassa for boys and girls. It was named by its founder and first administrator Haji Mir Afzal as Jamia Hanfia Razvia. Then comes the Bandi Mansoor which consist of Mughals and small number of other Syeds. The Literacy rate is very high.
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