THE PEOPLE, RACES AND TRIBES OF KOTLI SATTIAN

The People of Kotli Sattian are generally well built and of balanced height, sturdy and strong, hardworking and fair in complexion. They are proud of their ancestors and pure-blood.

The people of this region are inborn soldiers and belong to the martial races in the northwest of the sub-continent. They possess a distinctive place and role in the
Armed Forces of Pakistan. Subdivision Kotli Sattian is the home of prosperous families, Bureaucrats and high rank military officers, who prefer to live in the glitz and glitter that is Islamabad.

There are four principal tribes that reside in the Subdivision. The Sattis are in absolute majority. The second major tribe is the Dhanial, who are in majority in the Karor area, comprising six villages. Karor is the central settlement.

The next major tribe is the Abbasi. This tribe occupies the whole village of karor. Also, the Abbasi families are scattered through the subdivision but in quite limited numbers.

The other major tribe is the Kethwal. They have a whole village named Dhirkot Kethwalan, and they also live in Phofandi and Balawara.

Sadaat who possess a distinct status among the people and respected, The Dhok Seelah, Karl, Burhad, Patian and Mori settlements are where Sadaat are in good numbers. There are still a number of families long inhabited in the area. However, they are not called by their actual family name. They are known by their age-old professions.

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. 

LT. COLONEL (R) ZAFAR ABBASI

It was 2nd death anniversary of Lt. Colonel (R) Zafar Abbasi. He passed away on 11th November, 2015.

Lt Col Zafar Abbasi Ghazi was immortalized on screen by the iconic character of Captain Kashif in drama serial Alpha Bravo Charlie, story of Captain Kashif was based on real story of Lt. Colonel  Zafar Abbasi.

Zafar Abbas Ghazi had been stationed on the highest battlefront in the world, Siachen and had become a victim of frostbite in 1987. Owing to that, he lost both his hands and feet. Even after losing both hands and feet, he did not give up and continued to serve in the army, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

He was from Karor, Kotli Sattian