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Swatiabad “سواتی آباد” is a village in Kathai union council, Tehsel Oghi, (an administrative subdivision) of Mansehra District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. 9.2km from main city of Oghi on Battal Road, It lies in an area affected by the 2005 Balkot earthquake. 34°31'42.35" N 73°06'04.19" E
Map of Swatiabad, Pakistan
The Village of Swatiabad is the native village of Swatis a Pashtun tribe of the Batani tribal confederacy of the Afghans, inhabiting the Hazara region in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, mostly in the districts of Mansehra and Batagram, and to some extent in Kohistan as well, The Swatis are the largest tribal group of land owners in Mansehra and Battagram. Most of the Swatis speak Pashto, but many can also speak Hindko. Dari Persian was the official language of the Jahangiri sultans belonging to the Swati tribe, who ruled a kingdom stretching from Jalalabad and Bajaur to Kashmir, however it is no longer spoken now. The name Swati is associated with their initial settlement in Swat, but later on they migrated into Hazara on the eastern side of the Indus River.