About Thana

Thana Malakand

Thana is the biggest town of Malakand Agency 

& also the biggest town of the Malakand Division.
Thana name is from Pashto word tanra, 
It is written with nounghuna in Pashto.

It was the place of jirga, and therefore it was known as Tanra.
Its history can be dated to 3000 BC 
which are present at nookano ghund near mora sar.
The first Aryan graveyard is also discovered here in 1964 by 
Dr.Ahmed Hassan Dani and Dr.Munawar Khan of Thana.
And EX-(RTD) Judge Peshawar High Court Abdul Khaliq Khan.
The town is populated by 500,000 people of which 250,000 are registered voters.
It is a highly educated town of Pakistan,
where the education ratio exceeds to 99%.
It is famous for its fruits farms & rice fields.
The main families of thana are the yousafzais of 
which Ali khail, bazidkhail, katorkhail, babakhail, shamat khail 
and palao khanan are the sub castes and Gujjars of 
which poswal khel,chouhan khel and kathan khel are the sub castes.
Beside these two castes majority of the population are immigrants from other areas,
who do not have a well defined family structures and 
They are mostly associated with their professions for their identity 
like tarkans( carpenters), ingars (smiths), zargaran (goldsmiths), 
and farm workers who are mistakenly called zamindars in the vernacular. 
Ghani Muhammad khan former chairmen economics dept: peshawar also 
belongs to Thana Malakand.
The whole division was previously Malakand agency inclusive of the princely states of 
Swat, Dir, Amb and Chitral. Kalam and upper swat was part of 
malakand agency till 1969. 
The college was commissioned in 1962 and now housing five colleges.