Pakhal or Pakhali is an area of Mansehra district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is very fertile, mostly paddy fields, with a good annual yield of tobacco. Maidan e Pakhla, meaning the plain of Pakhal, consists of many villages and situated on Karakoram Highway that leads from Mansehra town to Gilgit.
It is named after Sultan Pakhal Gabaria Jahangeeri of the Swati tribe, who ruled the area from Jalalabad to Kashmir, and was later succeeded by his brother, Sultan Behram. The Swatis, after the fall of their kingdom in the Swat and Dir Districts, crossed the Indus to take control of Pakhal and adjoining areas from the Karlugh Turks.
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Pakhal Sarkar Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA