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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. It is located in the south of the district and borders Haripur and Abbottabad districts.
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Formerly it was a part of the Princely State of Amb.
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.
The notorious center of Dhanaka, a pseudo-Sufi center run by a charlatan drug cartel is also nearby.
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.
