Country Pakistan Time zone PST (UTC+5) | District Swat Province Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
Shin is an administrative unit, known as a Union council, of Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Swat District has nine Tehsils, including Khwazakhela, Kabal, Madyan, Barikot, Mingora, and Kalam. Each tehsil comprises certain numbers of union councils. There are 65 union councils in district Swat, 56 rural and nine urban.
Shin is a scenic part of Swat. Its population is approximately 30,000. There are two govt. primary schools (one for girl and one for boys) and two secondary schools (one for girls and one for boys) in Sum Shin. In Shin there are some educated people, including Mr.Bakht Mand Khan(ex-Director PARC), Mr. Azady Khan (M.Sc Chemistry, owner of Azad Medicine company), Mr. Rahmat Gul (principal of the primary school Bargin), Mr. Bahri Mulk (principal of the primary school Shin), Mr. Rahim Shah Khan (retired principal), Mr. Javed Khan (M.A Pushto, B.Ed, M.Ed, teacher in GHSS Fateh Pur), Dr. Ashraf Ali (Ph.D Chemistry from Korea), Dr. Shafiullah (MBBS,BMC BANNU), Dr.Noor ul Hadi (MBBS from Cuba), Pharmacist Faiz Ali (Pharm-D from Baluchistan University), Quetta engineer Arshad Ali (M.Sc Engineering, lecture UET Peshawar), Muhammad Bilal Khan (M.sc(Hons) Horticulture), engineer Khalid Khan (B.Sc Mechanical Engineer), engineer Saad Ali (B.Sc Chemical Engineering), engineer Numan (B.Sc Computer System Engineering), Dr. Luqman Hakim (MBBS, AMC), Dr. Muhammad Abbas (MBBS BMC Bannu). Other respected and well-known personalities are Abdul Qahar Khan, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Abdul Sattar Khan, Nazim Shin, Fazal Wahab (qajeer khan), and Muhamma Sher Khan.
There are many tribes in Shin, including Essa Khel, Azghar Khel,musa khel khan khore and Miangan. Mullahs and people belonging to other professions and communities have ties with each other through marriage and blood relations; commonly all of them are recognized as Janki Kheil and more broadly they like to be called as Yousafzai. Some original Swatis, i.e the permanent residents of Swat before the Yousafzi arrival from Kabul, also live here. People of Swat and of the Shin area too have been constantly circled by from people of different villages by wali Swat and it the last who comes are now prevailing here. Education is now prevailing; people of the village live here like brothers they give and take respect from each others.