PROUD OF HARIPUR

Field Marshall Muhammad Ayub Khan 

Muhammad Ayub Khan, N.Pk., H.Pk., HJ, psc, (May 14, 1907 – April 19, 1974) was the first military ruler of Pakistan, serving as the President of Pakistan (1958 - 1969). He became the Pakistan Army's first native Commander in Chief in 1951, and was the youngest full general and self-appointed Field Marshal in Pakistan's military history.

Early life
Ayub Khan was born on May 14, 1907, in the village of Rehana near Haripur, in the former Hazara District of North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. He was a non-Pashto-speaking Pashtun of the Tareen tribe. He was the first child of Mir Dad Khan Tareen, who was a Risaldar-Major (the senior most non-commissioned rank) in Hodson's Horse, a cavalry regiment of the Royal Indian Army. For his basic education, he was enrolled in a school in Sarai Saleh, which was about four miles from his village and used to go to school on a mule's back. Later he was moved to a school in Haripur, where he started living with his grandmother. He enrolled at Aligarh Muslim University in 1922, but did not complete his studies there, as he was accepted into the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

• May 14, 1907 (1907-05-14) – April 19, 1974 (1974-04-20) (aged 66) 
• Place of birth Rehana village: Haripur District, British India 
• Place of death Islamabad, Pakistan 
• Allegiance Pakistan 
• Service/branch Pakistan Army (PA – 10) 
• Years of service 1928 – 1958 
• Rank Field Marshal 
• Unit Infantry (1/14th Punjab Regiment) 
• Commands held Brigade in Waziristan
• 14th Infantry Division, Dhaka
• Adjutant General (AG)
• Deputy Commander-in-Chief
• Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan Army 
• Battles/wars Burma Campaign
• World War II 
• Awards Hilal-e-Jurat
• Hilal-e-Pakistan
• Nishan-e-Pakistan
• Other work President of Pakistan

He died in 1974.

ACTIONS AND POLICIES 

1) The shifting of capital from one corner of the country to central place.
2) Construction of Tarbela and Mangla Dams
3) Construction of canals in Panjab.
4) Agricultural reforms. 
5) Purchasing of Gawadar from Oman.
6) Good control on law and order situation. 
7) Mantained East and West Pakistan as a single unit.
8) In NWFP, allowed to wear same uniform (malaysia) to all students
10) On his directions, unpure foods were thrown in the streams. 
11) General Public of Pakistan feels that Pakistan won the 1965 war due to courage of Field Marshal Muhammad Ayub Khan. 

Akhtar Nawaz Khan

Akhtar Nawaz Khan remained member Provincial Assembly for five years. He belongs to Khalabat Town Ship. He was killed in a family dispute. He was the favourite leader of the people of his consituency as well as of public of Haripur. He was ready to help the people 24/7 hours. He was a courageful, polite and co-operative leader.

Gohar Ayub Khan 

Gohar Ayub Khan was born on January 1937. He is a popular Pakistani politician and the son of the late Pakistani President Field Marshal Ayub Khan from Haripur. A Tareen Pashtun, he was born in Rehana, Haripur. Khan studied at Army Burn Hall College, Abbottabad, and Saint Mary's Academy, Rawalpindi. Later, he graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, U.K.. Thereafter, he joined the Pakistan Army, from which he resigned as a captain in 1962.Also Ex-Member of Nationa Assembly From NA-19 Haripur.  Also Ex- Speaker Of National Assembly.

Syed Muhammad Sabir Shah

Syed Muhammad Sabir Shah or more commonly as Pir Sabir Shah Mashwani is a Pakistani politician from the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. He served as the 18th Chief Minister of the NWFP from the 20th of October, 1993 to 25 February, 1994.He was the adviser to the prime minister from 1997 to 1999 and the President of PML N in NWFP.Also member of provincial assembly from PF-52 HARIPUR.

Qazi Muhammad Asad

Qazi Muhammad Asad S/O Muhammad Asif, belongs to PF-50 Haripur. His academic qualification is M.Sc. Qazi M. Asad belongs to Awami National Party. He has been elected twice as MPA.


Other Information:
Marital Status: Married
Date of Birth: 1965-10-06
Place of Birth: Peshawar
Permanent Contact: Village Sikandarpur, Tehsil and Distt Haripur. 

Sardar Muhammad Mushtaq Khan

Sardar Muhammad Mushtaq Khan belongs to Kot Najeebullah in Haripur. He is a member of the Sardar Gujjar family of Haripur Hazara in Pakistan. He is an advocate by profession and a politician. He has been elected twice as a member of NWFP Provincial Assembly and in the 2008 election was elected MNA  from NA-19 Haripur.

DR RAJA AMIR ZAMAN KHAN

Dr Raja Amir Zaman khan is resident of village Khan Pur. He was the elder son of RAJA SIKANDAR ZAMAN (LATE). He also hold position of DISTRICT NAZIM of Haripur.Before Yousaf Ayub Khan.His Younger Brother RAJA FAISAL ZAMAN is MPA FROM P.F 49 HARIPUR.

Union Councils

There are 44 union counsils in Haripur. Out of which 15 are Urban and the other 29 are Rural. Each union council consists of many villages. You can see four types of miracles of beauty gifted by ALMIGHTY ALLAH to Haripur. i.e. Beautiful Mountains covered with green plants, three beautiful dams filled with transparent water (Tarbela, Khanpur and Putri Dam).And the third, the beautiful rivers 'Siren' and 'Dor'. Geographically, these union counsils can be divide into three types; one with the hilly areas, second the lands and third are the union counsils connected with river Dor and Tarbela Lake.

HARIPUR CITY OF PEACE

Haripur (Urdu: ہری پور) is a district in the Hazara region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwaprovince of Pakistan. Haripur District has the highest Human Development Index of all districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Haripur District is situated at latitude 33° 44' to 34° 22' and longitude 72° 35' to 73° 15' and about 610 meters above the sea level.

History

Haripur district is situated in the heart of ancient Gandhara civilization. In the winter of 327/326 BC, Alexander the Great personally led a campaign against the clans; the Aspasioi of Kunar valleys, the Guraeans of the Guraeus valley, and the Assakenoi of the Swat and Buner valleys. A fierce contest ensued with the Aspasioi in which Alexander himself was wounded in the shoulder by a dart but eventually the Aspasioi lost the fight. Alexander then faced the Assakenoi, who fought bravely and offered stubborn resistance to Alexander in the strongholds of Massaga, Ora and Aornos.  The fort of Massaga could only be reduced after several days of bloody fighting in which Alexander himself was wounded seriously in the ankle. According to Curtius, "Not only did Alexander slaughter the entire population of Massaga, but also did he reduce its buildings to rubbles". Some of the soldiers settled in the areas of Gandhara; present Haripure is among the areas where the Greek soldiers settled in. In 1399, Central Asian conqueror Amir Timur, on his way back from his Indian campaign, left a legion of Karlugh Turksin the current Hazara region of Pakistan as the rulers.The Karlugh Turks continued to rule most of Hazara until 1703 but gradually lost their control via depradations by other tribes and peoples. Subsequently, parts of the Hazara, especially the present Haripur area, came under theDurrani/Abdali Afghan rule; and along with parts of the present Attock district of Punjab, the area was administered by the Tarin/Tareensardars or chiefs, who were formally appointed 'Hakim's (Governors). In due course, c 1820-21, the Hazara—including Haripur—fell to theLahore Sikh Khalsa , led by Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

The Sikhs annexed Hazara in two stages. Lower Hazara became tributary to the Sikhs as soon as they wrested the Fort of Attock from theDurranis, although some tribes such as the Tarins/Tareens kept on resisting for quite some time afterwards. Upper Hazara suffered a similar fate when the Sikhs took Kashmir from the Barakzais in 1819. The town of Haripur (meaning 'Hari's town') was founded in 1822 by Hari Singh Nalwa, the Commander-in-Chief of Ranjit Singh's army along its north-west frontier. On the successful completion of his tenure as the Governor of Kashmir in 1821, Pakhli and Damtaur were bestowed upon Nalwa as a jagir in 1822. As soon as Hari Singh Nalwa received this grant, he built the walled town of Haripur in the heart of the Haripur plain. To the north of this flowed the river Dor and to its south lay the country of the Gakhars. To its east ran a mountainous range; and to its west stood the Gandhgarh Hills. The selection of this site by Hari Singh was interesting because some of the most fierce encounters with the tribes inhabiting this region had been fought by the Sikhs in this vicinity.

Hari Singh's name and the presence of his fort of Harkishangarh eventually brought such a feeling of security to the region, that by 1835 a German traveller found mere remnants of the four-yard thick and 16 yards high wall built to initially protect the town.

Haripur was the sole example of a planned town in this region till the British built Abbottabad many years later. Haripur continued to grow and flourish and eventually became a city and then a District. The first British Deputy Commissioner, James Abbott, painted an exquisite picture of the town of Haripur and its commanding fort of Harkishangarh.