Zarobi

Zarobi is a historical town and Union Council of Swabi District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.^[1] It is located at 34°2′0N 72°34′0E with an altitude of 321 metres (1056 feet).

This is one of the big villages of district swabi as far as the population is concerned. This village has still those strong cultural values the beauty of a typical village whether it is in the materials or in the residents of the village. This village is distributed in two main parts: AbuBU SAYED (Porta cham) and AKHUN SAYED (Kata cham).

MOHALLAH/KHAIL /(DIVISION):

This village is divided in two main parts

(Abu sayad and Akhoon sayad ) and seven 7 sectors( Mohalla's,Tapa/Khail/ cham.) 1-Mohammad khail ( Makhkey) 2-Mohammad khail (shah) 3-Khodo khail, chamle wal 4-BHAI Khail 5-Bozar khail, Mosra khail 6-Daka khail, Jatta khail 7-Khelji khail.

Famous street/Road/:1-Jabai lara 2- Maal lara. 3- Payo sharbal lara 4- Topai lara 5- Kote lara 6- Shagai lara 7- Laro mianz 8- Paji lara

Location

Zarobi is situated on the right bank of the river Abaseen (Indus) in the south east of District Swabi (NWFP), 5 miles from Tarbaladam in the west and in the south its border with Attock District, and east south border with Haripur tehsil (Hazara).

• Nearby villages: Topi, Kota, KALABAT, MARGHUZ, GARH.DHOK.YOUSAFI, BATAKARA (SWABI) GARAI, SHEENKAY, Chhachh (ATTOCK) QAZIPUR, HASSAN Pur, GHAZI (HARI Pur).

Zarobi is the remnant of village Munara eroded by a dreadful flood in the past in June 1841 AD. The inhabitants of Munara were used to face horrible accidents and incidents with great tolerance and dare caused by the unruly River Indus.

History

Zsrobi is the continuation of the historical village Munara which was once existed at the coast of Indus (Abaseen river) and then destroyed two times in Indus floods. After that crucial incident the people of that destroyed village were brought together at zarobai derai and later on it was named just zarobai.

When the partition of whole territory belonging to Pashtoons was taking place amongst their tribes by Shiekh Milli's partition rule, our ancestors were given their part/portion at Munara but as we know it was a small village & their share was much greater which was impossible to be given here so they got their remaining portion at Trapakai {now included in Tarbela Dam} and Pajman.

Munara (which was already a build up village at the north bank river Indus) was a very famous & historical place; its name has been mentioned in the battles fought between Yousafzai & Dalazak tribes time by time and other historic references, which describes its importance.

The battle b/w Gaju Khan (yousafzai) and Malik Bhai Khan(Dalazak) which lasted for depreciation of Dalazaks was fought somewhere near Munara.The defeatist Dalazak tribe escaped to the opposite side(south bank of river Indus i.e. Church Valley) across water.

The old village was actually a little to the west of present village at a distance of a kilometer approx. who's archives are still present.

1841 is the year of snow falling, because this year record snow was fallen, which blocked the whole way of water in river Indus,& by melting that huge & gigantic rocks of ice, there might be fierce flood which would definitely cause destruction. Therefore, the people living to the both sides of Indus were made aware of the situation. The govt. servants went to each & every village for appropriate preparation, but the time was exclusively short. At last that happened of which every one was afraid. The biggest stormy flood in the history of Indus valley, made big loss of lives & great destruction to the property. By the grace of All-mighty Allah the majority were made safe due to pre-storm actions & instructions.

All the dynasties of the village shifted to the place where the now called ZAROBAI & the then called DERAI exist.

There are also some information about some families who shifted to GHUR GHUSHTO (Church Valley, District Attock) before possible flood and some children & younger one's flee to the near by villages in that tumult. Some baby girls were later discovered in village Marghuz, but one may not agree with it, because there is no authentic proof of it.

The place where Zarobai exist, was a big knoll/hillock which was much safer from flood, therefore the people felt no hesitation to be settled there. Those people were very prudent & farsighted, hence gave the village a model shape, also made possible arrangements and prepared plans for future that's why it doesn't seems a village but a Model Town. But later some mischievous & opportunist persons destroyed its beauty for their small profits.

Name

Some research scholars belonging to this village have researched up to some how but more work is going on, regarding this matter. But my personal view/opinion is that this ZAROBAI, ZAROBAY or ZAROBI is in accordance with SAROBAI, SAROBAY or SAROBI in Afghanistan but later on a letter Z or S has changed in both either in Zarobai or Sarobai. Maybe the people living here & there have some conformity of tribes. We have many villages in East Pukhtonkhwa which are similar in names to the towns and cities either in West Pukhtonkhwa or in Hindustan. All these haven't happened in hurry/accident or fortunately, it may have a background but unfortunately underground. What may however the fact, but it is obvious that Afghanistan is the mother land of all Pashtoon tribes living in every corner of the globe.

In the beginning the people of Munara were very weak, they were very short in strength but soon they realize their weakness & loneliness, therefore requested the head of Yousafzai tribe in Swat, he sent some fight master families for their help with whom they (People of Munara) shared their properties. That's why CHAMLIWAL who came from Chamla, Swat have greater properties then other. Also some others families migrated from other places and settled here. That's why its population graph is so much higher. With the passage of time Yousafzai & Mandan were intermixed & it is impossible now to distinguish b/w them. Also there is a little quantity of other people known as Raghalya. But they are countless. The whole people count themselves as Yousafzai even Mandan because all have been intermixed & promiscuous. But they have authentic proofs of genealogical table and hence write Yousafzai with their names.

Islami School (The Historical School of Zarobai)

History Of Azad schools in Pakhtunkhwa

Abdul Ghaffar Khan dearly known as Baacha Khan, who back in 1920 used education as a means for social transformation and established a chain of more than seventy schools in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) making the local community an integral part of his educational program. This effort was initiated at a time when there was a dire need of purposeful and quality educational system that was both easily accessible and catered to the social, cultural and developmental needs of the Pakhtoons. It was a challenging effort; however, Baacha Khan made it possible by involving the local community, stirring up in them a sense of responsibility for collective effort and self-reliance. This endeavor proved fruitful in as far as it remained unobstructed by the oppressive British colonial forces.

Bacha khan the founder of the educational movement in pakhtoonkhwa formed 100 Azad Islami Schools During his educational movement.He came to our village Zarobai(Swabi) in series of his tours to different villages and towns and he formed this school here as well named Azad islami school,later the name changed to Islami School zarobi.Mulana Abdul Ghafoor sb faregh Deoband was the 1st Incharge/H.Master of the Azad school zarobai.This Islami School contain 1200 students which is having co education till 5th class.This school is running in two shifts.Morning shift is for general Education and the evening shift is for Islamic teaching i.e Nazira Quran,translation,islamic books etc.This scoool is run by the Jirga of zarobi village.the school income comes from different sources like charity, Qurbanai sarmane,Jirga Nagha amount(penaltly amount)this amount is being paid by those who voilates rules of Bela(forest of abaseen).^[2]

References

Coordinates: 34°2′0″N 72°34′0″E / 34.03333°N 72.56667°E / 34.03333; 72.56667