Gulibagh

Gulibagh is a town in the Union Council of Gulibagh. As an administrative unit in Pakistan, it is known both as a Union council and a Town in Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Gulibagh
Country Pakistan
ProvinceKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictSwat
Population
  Total32,483
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)

Literal meaning of Gulibagh in pushto language is "garden of flowers”.

District Swat has 7 Tehsils i.e. Khwazakhela, Charbagh, Kabal, Barikot, Babuzai, and Bahrain. Each Tehsil comprises certain numbers of union councils. There are 65 union councils in district Swat, 56 rural and 09 urban.

Union council Gulibagh includes small villages i.e. Gulibagh, Landake, Dakorak, Alabad, waliabad, Alamgunj and Roria. While if considered as a village, Gulibagh has six Mohallas i.e. Bodababa, Waliabad, Spina Khawra, Shindand, Maira and Keelay. Most of the village population is in keelay.

Cadet college swat, a premier institute in swat is also located in the waliabad mohallah of Village Gulibagh. While the university of Swat is in "Alabad" Part of Union Council Gulibagh

Main personalities of Union Council Gulibagh include :

Muhammad Zia (Ex-Tehsil Counselor), Hamza Khan Durrani, Muhammad Zaib Khan (Ex-Nazim), Advocate Rafiq Ahmad, and Dr. Iftikhar Ali (Research Scientist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA ; former at Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Swat).[2][3][4][5][6]

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