Bani Afghan (بنى افغان - children of Afghan) is a village located in Mianwali District of Punjab Province in Kala Bagh (قلعه باغ "Garden of the Citadel") in Pakistan.[1] The village contains an elementary school.[2]
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Bani Afghan
بنى افغان | |
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Village | |
Country | Pakistan |
Province | Mianwali Punjab, Pakistan |
Elevation | 319 m (1,047 ft) |
Time zone | UTC+5 |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+6 (PDT) |
Bani Afghan's residents are indigenous residents in Punbjab they have not been among refugees for the past forty years related to the coups in Afghanistan in the 1970s or since the Soviet occupation since the 1980s. The camps of the Afghan refugees are marked even in Khyber Paktunkhwa in Urdu and English. Refugees still live today, but there are various cities in Multan, Mardan on another cities of Pakistan and before 1947 in India, indigenous peoples of the Afghans or Pashtuns, who are mainly referred to in the Indian subcontinent as Rohilla or Pathan: Roh (Sanskrit) means high or peaks of the mountains and Rohilla means residents who live on high mountains. Pathan means man who is reliable. Pashtuns means sitting on the horse: rider. This people with four names (Afghan, Pathan, Rohilla and Pashtun) have lived in Iranian and Indian cultural areas for centuries and have also ruled in both cultures. Sher Shah Suri (1486 – 22 May 1545) or Sado Khan (11 October 1558 in Multan, died on 18 March 1627 in Kandahar ruled in India and also in Iran. Sado Khan was the ancestor of Dowlat Khan, grandfather of Ahmad Khan Abdali (founder of the Durrani dynasty).