Shalbandi

Shalbandi Sharif is an administrative unit, known as Union council of Buner District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

District Buner has 6 Tehsils i.e. Daggar, Chagharzai, Chamla, Khudu Khel, Gagra and Gadezai. Each tehsil comprises certain numbers of union councils. There are 27 union councils in Buner District.

This village is spiritual center for Chishti Order in Sufism. The village is visited by thousands of Shalbandi Baba followers called (masakeens) from all over the world to pay respect and to gain blessings from this holy site.

Four occasions are celebrated here every year:


 * 10th of Muharram-ul-Haram
 * 12th of Rabi-ul-Awal
 * 6th of Rajab-ul-Murajab (Urs of Mehmood Shah & Khawaja Moin-ud-Din Chishti)
 * 1st of March (Urs of Babar Badshah s/o Mehmood Shah)