Lassan Nawab
| Lassan Nawab | |
|---|---|
| Town and union council | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Region | Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa |
| District | Mansehra District |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+5) |
Lassan Nawab is a town situated in a long and narrow valley about 32 kilometers from Mansehra city. Lassan Nawab town is also a union council (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.[1] It is located in the south of the district and borders Haripur and Abbottabad districts.[2]
Formerly it was a part of the Princely State of Amb.[3]
Places of interest
Lassan town has several places of interest nearby. One is Doga , which is 1.9 km from Lassan Nawab, a beautiful village surrounded by panoramic hill sides and a small stream (Khatha). Another famous place is the shrine of Hazrat Jasgraan Walay Babaji, a Sufi saint of the Chishti Order, who lived sometime between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and which is a place of popular pilgrimage.[4]
The notorious center of Dhanaka, a pseudo-Sufi center run by a charlatan drug cartel is also nearby.[5]
Education
Apart from several primary schools for boys and girls in the area, the town also has a government high school and degree college for boys and a higher secondary school for girls. Three high school and two middle schools are also present in the private sector.
References
- ↑ Tehsils & Unions in the District of Mansehra - Government of Pakistan
- ↑ Settlements by unofficial union council, Mansehra district UN Emergency Response Centre
- ↑ Hazara Report 1993, pub Peshawar, Govt of NWFP,; pp 81-82
- ↑ AS Khan and Aftab Munir, Renowned Sufi Shrines in the North-West Frontier of Pakistan pub Peshawar:Alpha Press Inc, 1974, pp 159-162
- ↑ See criminal investigative report in Daily Shimal newspaper (Urdu), Abbottabad ed, 11th November 2015, Sec B, p 13
