Pakhli

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Pakhli is ancient sarkar of the district of the Mughal Province of the Panjab, now included in the Hazara District of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Pakhli roughly corresponds with the ancient Urasa, which Polemy places between the bedaspas(Jehlum) and the Indus. Its king was named Araskes in the time of Alexander. Hiuen Tsiang found it tributary to Kashmir. In the Kashmir chronicle called the Rajatarangini, it appears now as a separate Kingdom, now as tributary to the State, it in lay Agror, the ancient atyugrapura. In Babar's time this tract was held by the Khakha and bambha tribes, whose chiefs had been the ancient rulers of the country east of the Indus but had been driven out by the Gibari or Jahangiri Sultans of Bajawar and Swat, and the tract derives its name from the pakhli, one of these conquerors. In the Ain e Akbari it is described as bounded on the east by the Kashmir, on the south by the country of Gakhars, on the west by Attock, and on the north by the Kator Chitral. Under Durrani rule Saadat Khan Swati was chosen as chief of Pakhli then a dependency on Kashmir. He founded the fort of Garhi Saadat Khan, which was the headquarters of the Azad Khan's rebellion against Timur Shah. Early in the nineteenth century Pakhli comprised three districts, Mansehra in the south and south east, Shikiari in the north east, and Berkhund in the center. The valleys of Kaghan, Bhogarmang and Agror were dependent on it.

Ref: Imperial Gazetteer of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan.

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