Bhanda Peeraan

Bhanda Peeran(Urdu: بانڈه بيران) is a village and a part of Inayatabad Union Council (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province) of Pakistan.

Name and meaning
Bhanda Peeran, also known as Peran Da Bandha in Hindku language and Peer Keeley in Pushto, which means "The Land of Saints", where banda means land and piran means saints, peer means saint and kalay means village.

Historians and native people of this area say that Muslim Saints used to live in this area in the beginning of 15th century.

Population
It has a total population of more than 18,000. The major tribes and ethnic groups in this area are as follows:


 * Syeds (Bukhari) Syeds claim to be the direct descendants of Muhammed through his daughter Fatima-tuz Zahra married to her cousin Ali ibn Abu-Talib. Lots of SYEDs living in Banada Piran . Actually why they called this village by Name of Banda Piran, because First Syed (Bukhari) build this village.


 * Sahibzada (Family of Sheikh Baba) This tribe belongs to Quresh ( Hashmi Qureshi). Mr. Muhammad Ishaq (Mian Baji) was the last Guddi Nasheen of this Family. Now, these Sahibzada dwells in different areas of Mansehra mostly in Seri Sherif Safaida near Balakot Bypass, also in Banda Peeraan, and in Sarian near Mansehra Motorway interchange Shiekhabad. Including Sahibzada they also use the family name, Mian. Most of them Use Sahibzada Mian as initials for their names.

Jahangiri a subtribe of Swatis were the real patristics the strongest tribe in Peeraan banda. But with the passage of time they purchased land from swatis and build their own home.
 * Swati (Janis Khail and lughmani) The Noble Tribe of Old Mansehra, the Warriors. They have most of the resources including land. Most of them migrated from Balakot.
 * Paracha Once, Banda Piran was the hub of the Parachas family but now they have migrated to Mansehra, Abbottabad and Islamabad. These people are mostly involved in business.
 * Gujjar The people of this tribe are Lineally servants of swatis but by time the oldest inhibatint of this region and have been in the national as well provisional assembly for a continuous period of 35 years.
 * Kashmiri These people migrated from Kashmir before the independence of Pakistan in 1947 and after spending some time in Banda Piran with Jhangiris, they started calling themselves as Jhangiris. They are also famous as BIJLLIE WALAY in the village.
 * Chhachi These people migrated from Chach Punjab.
 * Utman Zai.  These people lived in Banda Piran since before British Raj. Traditionally these peoples were farmers, who through dedication and hard work rose in society. Elderly focused on Education of their children through hardship. Utman Zai tribe people later migrated to Karachi and other metropolitan cities for better job opportunities. Today, Utman Zai people have jobs in government sectors and are most prominent businessmen of area.
 * Kabalies These people migrated from Afghanistan to Kashmir before 1947, and after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, they migrated to Pakistan.
 * Mohamand: These people came from Charsadda, ziyam and Mohamand agency, these people are sub tribes clan Dawezai sub division Mandozai (Jalalkhel and Amin khel), Jallalkhel are well educated and well spirituals people of this union council and specially theirs elders also participed in Kashmir jihad.
 * Aliee-Wal These people came from the district of Aliee after the earthquake of 2005.
 * Kohistani These people migrated from Kohistan District to Banda Piran.

Language
The majority of the people living in this village and surrounding areas speak Hindku, with good understanding and speech of Pushto language as well as it is the mother tongue of Swati.

Agriculture
The people of Banda Piran are mostly farmers and rely on agriculture as the best profession in that area.

Muslims
All the people living in Banda Piran are Muslims and thus there is a lot of religious influence in this area.

Importance
This village is considered to be the major passage of almost 10 union councils to Hazara University Dhodial, including other villages of InayatAbad, Trangi Sabir Shah. Lies East to Dhodial town and South East to Baffa town. it also touches the Hazara university on the northern side.

River Siran
Just after leaving the Siran Valley, enters the Pakkhal valley by touching Banda Piran. The river Siran flows from north to south of the village where mostly farmers use its water for agricultural purposes.