Garhi Habibullah

Garhi Habibullah Upper Pakhli
Union council and town
Garhi Habibullah
A view of Garhi Habib Khan Jehangiri from Aznali Hills
Garhi Habibullah Location in Pakistan Show map of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Garhi Habibullah Garhi Habibullah (Pakistan) Show map of Pakistan
Coordinates: 34°24′05″N 73°22′49″E / 34.4014°N 73.3803°E / 34.4014; 73.3803
Country	Pakistan
Region	Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
District	Mansehra District
Government
• Type	Mayor
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)
Area code	0997

Garhi Habibullah is a small city and union council (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.^[1] It is located in Balakot Tehsil and lies to the east of district capital Mansehra, towards the Kashmir frontier (near to Muzaffarabad the capital of Azad Kashmir). It was affected by the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.^[2]

Garhi Habibullah is basically divided into 5 separate Khanates. 1) Khanate of Samundar Khan Khankhail Swati, Khanate of Habib Khan Jehangiri Swati, Khanate of Ameen Khan Jehangiri Swati, Khanate of Hassan Ali Khan Arghushal Swati and Khanate of Behram Khan Sarkheli Swati.^[3][4]

According to 1872 division of Hazara District, Garhi Habib Khan was divided among 5 families into 5 Hundis/Jageers.^[5]

• MUGHAL/MONGOL
• Tanoli
• Qureshi
• Awan
• Swati
• Rajput

• Syed

• Wajid Hamayun Khan (Politician)