SUBSTANTIAL SOLDIERS OF KOTLI SATTIAN AND MURREE

By: Agha H Amin

I had the honour of meeting Ex Brigadier Sadiq Khan Satti (Military Cross) in January 1982, when he was writing his book Bang E Dara in English.

I must add that most substantial soldiers I have met or read about in life belong to Murree and Kotli Sattian tehsil of Rawalpindi District.

Ex Brigadier Sadiq Khan Satti, the subject of this write up. Brave warrior against a set of hopeless politicians who dared not step into Kashmir during the entire time that 1947-48 war was fought, although Nehru was roaming around in Kashmir as if it was a market place behind his house in Delhi.

Great war hero of 1947-48 war Brigadier Tommy Masaud Khan Satti, who boldly took the armoured  cars of Pavo 11 cavalry in Kashmir and captured Bhimber, Mirpur and Chamb.

Great Major Zohrab Abbasi 15 SP a member of a court of inquiry, who supported me like a lion, against all odds including a hostile Brigade commander and commanding officer and helped vindicate my position against my commanding officer.

Brigadier Muhammad  Taj Abbasi SJ and Bar, who i had the honour of interviewing in early 2001.

Risaldar Maghfoor Shah (Pindi), who was a great and loyal friend. 

Major Shahid Naeem Satti, 22 Cavalry, a great colleague and senior in tactical wing armour school. His father was also a good friend of my father in the corps of Engineers. 

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                                                          Brigadier Taj Abbasi

DR JAHANGIR SATTI

Dr. Jahangir Satti is a Scientist, Clinical Professor, Medical Physicist and an Author, who is a diplomat of American board of Radiology (since 2006), Fellow of American Academy of Nano-medicine, and Associated Faculty at the Center for X-Ray Optics in the State University of New York at Albany. He hails from Malot Sattian.

He received his M.S. in Radiological Physics from CAMPEP program of Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, and PhD in Computer Engineering from the same University. He then received a post-doctorate in Diagnostic Medical Physics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and another post-doctorate in Radiation Oncology from the Stanford University, California.

Dr. Satti is currently serving as a Medical Physicist/Clinical Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology in Albany Medical College. He has authored over three dozen research articles and conference abstracts.

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"Jahangir Satti is a born scholar, genius, intelligent, sober, silent among groups we work together. From academic to professional and social life he proved himself a leader. He is a professor of his field."

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Click here to read his book "Reverse Breast Cancer-an alternative approach"

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CAPTAIN KHIZAR MEHMOOD SATTI SHAHEED

Captain Khizar Mehmood Satti Shaheed

Born on 8 July 1983 at Malot Sattian.

Unit 35 A.K 

Embraced Shahadat on 28th may 2011 at Wali Dad Top, Mohmand Agency.

Awarded Sitara-e-Bisalat for his bravery 

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KOTLI SATTIAN - THE LAND OF EVERGREEN HILLS

Kotli Sattian is an extension of the Indo-Himalayan ecological region that falls in the transitional zone of Irano-Saharan ecosystem which extends to the Southwest.This is a very beautiful subdivision of district Rawalpindi (Punjab), Pakistan which is bounded on the east by the river Jhelum, on the southwest by the river soan: an ancient historical river of subcontinent and on the northwest by the Murree subdivision: a scenic hill station of Pakistan. It is also bounded on the south by Kahuta subdivision. Kotli Sattian touches the Kashmir territory on the east by bridging the River Jhelum and on the southwest, it is the next door neighbor of Islamabad, The Federal Capital of Pakistan. The evergreen hills with its gentle and steep slopes, the cool, fresh & health giving fountains, the dancing & singing streams, the winding roads & paths that wind through the lively pine woods and the bracing climate beckon the wanderer to this hilly area. The territorial name is derived from the mountain town of Kotli and the Satti tribe. This subdivision is geographically a part of Murree and Kahuta hills. It was declared a subdivision in 1990 by breaking up 40 villages out of both subdivisions. The subdivision is situated between 33 degrees to 37 degrees and 33 - 35' North Latitude and between 73-26' and 73-27' east longitude. It's length from river Jhelum on the north to Glingali on the south is about 60 km. It's extreme width from river Jhelum on the east to river Soan is the southwest is nearly 40 km. The headquarters of the Subdivision is 45 km from district headquarters and Federal Capital. It stands at 38 km from kahuta town and 36 km from Murree Hill station. The approximate altitude of the subdivision above the sea level is from 1878 feet to 7335 feet. The headquarters of the subdivision is at 4809 feet above sea level. AREA According to the facts collected from administrative records and census (1998) reports, the total area of the subdivision is 83,243 acres out of which 55,590 acres of land is owned by local inhabitants and the remaining 27,653 acres of land is covered by forests and is the property of the government of Punjab and is managed through the Punjab forest department HEADQUARTERS The revenue estate, with the name Kotli Sattian, is the headquarters of the subdivision. The administrative offices, judiciary and major business centers are almost at the center, and is linked to the roads in all directions. The headquarters at present is a rural estate but is rapidly developing into a small town. KOTLI SATTIAN

KOTLI SATTIAN, RAWALPINDI, PUNJAB, PAKISTAN

FAR-WESTERN HIMALAYAN PAHARI LANGUAGE, ITS ORIGIN AND EVALUATION

This Pahari language, like other languages of the world, has its own distinct features which depict the evolutionary images of masses. This language is shared by million of people spread across disputed borders in the region. This war like permanent situation in the region poses an additional danger to the extinction of this language. There is an urgent need to establish cross cultural ties among people in this age with modern communication for the preservation, progress and peace of humanity and their heritage. There is a lot more to do in this regard. 

                                                 Written by : Dr Jahangir Satti

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MANWAN NI HELL - FIRST TOWN OF SATTI AND KETHWAL TRIBES IN CIRCLE BAKOTE, ABBOTTABAD

Manwan ni hell is the lowest place in Union Council, Birote, it is located on three provincial borders: North-West Frontier Province, Punjab and Azad Kashmir on the right bank of the Jhelum River. This place was of historical importance and contains relics as it was a crossing point between Kashmir and Taxila during the time of the Gandharan kingdom.

Manwan ni hell was the first town of the Kethwal and Satti tribes who settled much of the current Circle Bakote and Murree Hills area before the arrival of Karlal and Dhond Abbasi tribes six centuries ago.

This place was linked to Pattan (Old Kohala) in north with a road along right bank of River Jhelum to Mirpur in AJK. In that time it was a cultural as well as a business centre, but it had lost its importance in the beginning of nineteenth century (1750–1800) when the Ghakkars failed to control all this region and it was occupied by Ranjit Singh's field marshal Hari Singh Nalwa in 1803. A battle occurred there and all houses of Kethwal and Satti tribes were gutted, all ladies and children became slaves by brutal Hari Singh Nalwa and his army. He developed another place Pattan (Old Kohala) as a business and trade centre and established an army post at old Dak Bungalow. Manwan Ni hell is called this place now because after the bloodshed of Nalwa Army only old and oldest ladies of Kethwal and Satti tribes were remained there.

There are a few historic graves facing in the east and west directions in an old graveyard of the Kethwal tribe showing the historical remnant of the Gandhara grave culture before the dawn of Islam in the Taxila Kingdom. 

SATTIALI LANGUAGE of Circle Bakote

                                                                                       By : MOHAMMED OBAIDULLAH ALVI                                                                                                  Journalist, Anthropologist and Historian 


Human being related to any Geography, civilization, culture is not mute. They have their own language, full of passions of joy and grieves. This language is also a mirror of  past and road map of their future. They sleep and enjoy their dreams in their native or mother languages. I have studied my mother language since 1996 and compile a dictionary of 2.5 thousands of words, idioms with reference of local past and present back ground. I am translating Holy Quraan in this language first time in history.

The Dhundi-Karlali language is spoken throughout Abbottabad District, and the adjoining Murree Hills and Galyat areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.The Dhund Abbasi and Karlal Tribe form 80% of the population that uses this language. More than 1.5 million people speak this language from the north of Islamabad to the Kaghan Valley in the south, and in the east from the right bank of the Jhelum River to the Silk Road from Hasanabdal to Abbottabad.

Ancient History

The earliest known roots of the language go back to 5,000 BCE when Indo-Aryan priests wrote the Vedas on the high brinks of the Mukeshpuri and Murree hills. The Dhundi language evolved from an ancient Prakrit in 3,500 BCE and by the first century emerged as the Sharda language. This language developed and changed into the Sharda language of Kashmir, the official language of the Buddhist University at Taxila's Sharda Campus sixteen centuries before the invasion of the Huns from Central Asia. Kautilya and Pāṇini were the great scholars of this language

  

Muslim conquest

After the Muslim conquest of Kashmir in the twelfth century, many Muslim tribes such as Satti, Awan, Sayed, Dhund Abbasis, Karlal, and Gakhars (the main feudal lords of area), and many more came to Kashmir with Mahmud of Ghazni and his invading forces; they partially changed the social and political culture as well as the Ghindi language of Kashmir.

Effect on language

This influx resulted in new linguist influences; this dramatically altered the language, literature, poetry, philosophy and some 35% of the vocabulary. This created another version of the Sharda language. In the middle of the second millennium some social changes occurred: Gakhars displaced the Kareal tribe from Bakote to Galyat and promoted the Dhunds as their allies. Gakhars granted Abbottabad District and Murree Hills as jagirs(territorial grants) to Rattan Khan (Abd-u-Rehman), the great-grandson of Shah Wali Khan (Dhond Khan) as a reward. This jagir was geographically a hilly and mountainous area that has been developed by Katwals, Sattis, Gujjars and Kareals through the centuries.

Today a pure form of this language is spoken by Sattis. the language is now referred to as Sattiali in this area.

New History

The linguist Rev. T. Grahame Bayley contributed in the 1901 census of India report on the "dialects spoken in the hills between Murree and Kashmir". Bayley was the first to study the language, which he included in his book Languages of the Northern Himalayas Studied in the Grammar of Twenty-Six Himalayan Dialects, published the by Royal Asiatic Society London in 1908. Grearson detailed the nature and translation of the Sattiali language in the linguistic survey of India (Linguistic Survey of Pakistan Vol IV) published in Lahore in 1980. Linguists consider the Dhundi-Kareali language to be the same as Pahari (Dhondi), Pothwari (Potwari), Chibhali, Punchhi (Poonchi), and Mirpuri, varying slightly in dialect. This language belongs to the Western Pahari language family, which is a branch of the Indo-Iranian language. Indo-Iranian (also known as Aryan) is a branch of the Indo-Europeanfamily of languages. (For details read Mohabbat Husain Awan of Birote Kalan book ASSAN NAY NABI PAK HOR (Our Holy Prophet) first book on Dhundi-Kairali language, published in 2006 in Karachi and won Seerat Award in 2008.The book preface research article was written by Mohammed Obaidullah Alvi and covers five millenniums history and literature of Dhundi-Kairali language. Gulfiraz Abbasi, a lecturer of Murree College is also written a research thesis about this subject in 2010.

References

1. ^ Ethnologue report for language code:phr
2. ^ Location of Birot - Falling Rain Genomics
3. '^ H.H. Risley and E.A. Gait, (1903), Report on the Census of India, 1901, Calcutta, p. 247
4. ^ Formerly known as Qurashies, as narrated by Akram Abbasi in his book Aena-e-Qurashand Noor Alahi Abbasi in Tareekh-e-Murre
5. Awan, Mohabbat Husain, Asan nay Nabi Pak hor (Our Holy Prophet), preface and language by Mohammed Obaidullah Alvi 
6. Colin P. Masica, 1991, The Indo-Aryan Languages
7. Bailey, Rev. T. Grahame. 1904. Panjabi Grammar. Lahore: Punjab Government Press.
8. Rahman, Tariq. 1997. Language and Ethnicity in Pakistan. Asian Survey, 1997 Sep., 37(9):833-839.

  External Links

•  http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Dhundi-Kairali%20language
• Pothohari reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
• Javaid, Umbreen. 2004. Saraiki political movement: its impact in south Punjab. Journal of Research (Humanities), 40(2): 55–65. Lahore: Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of the Punjab. (This PDF contains multiple articles from the same issue.)
• Miki Kharo England - GeoPakistani
• Pahari.org
• Jumtree.co.uk, examples of Potwari Sher (sung poetry)

KOTLI SATTIAN, ITS DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL MEDIA

All I see on social media nowadays is that everyone talks about development and improvement in Kotli Sattian, but the dilemma is that all the development activities are limited to social media. Majority of the people are too involved in politics on the basis of favoritism and they don’t know their priorities and requirements of 21st century.

In my personal opinion first we need to spread awareness in the masses, need to reform people, need to highlight the importance of education. When our people are aware and able to understand, then we can move towards development and improvement.

Some people think if they get local leadership then it will change their destiny. Well, Decades ago Shahid Riaz Satti and Col Yamin Satti represented Kotli Sattian region but nothing changed at bigger scale. If someone from Kotli Sattian gets ticket in forthcoming elections, again I don’t think they will bring massive change in the region except building a few roads, recruiting some people as a peon, security guard or clerk in any organisation. So, we need to look at the bigger picture.

Actually, I’m not opposing the idea of involvement in politics, if we are involved in politics then we should know how to get our rights, we should know how to protest for our rights, how to convey our issues to our representatives to get things done. Hence, we need to stop the politics of favoritism, just think about the development of region regardless of any party affiliations.

I think apart from relying on politicians now we should take part in development on self help basis. So, my preference is to spread awareness and promote education in the region because education and awareness is the logical solution. If anyone of you are on the same page then please join me in my struggle and discuss the solutions and make our region and country a great place.

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