لنڊي ڪوتل

لنڊي ڪوتل لنډي کوتل (لواړګی) لوارگئي
قصبو
لنڈی کوتل
لنڊي ڪوتل
Coordinates: 34°6′19″N 71°9′19″E
ملڪ	پاڪستان
صوبو	خيبرپختونخوا
ضلعو	خيبر ضلعو
تعلقو	لنڊي ڪوتل تعلقو
آبادي  (2023)
• ڪل	38,065
وقتي علائقو	UTC+5 (PST)
ڊائلنگ ڪوڍ	0924

لنڊي ڪوتل (پشتو: لنډي کوتل، اردو: لنڈی کوتل) يا لوارگئي (پشتو: لواړگی) پاڪستان جي صوبي خيبر پختونخوا جو هڪ قصبو ۽ خيبر ضلعي جي انتظامي راڄڌاني آهي. اهو اڳوڻي وفاق جي انتظام هيٺ قبائلي علائقن ۾ سڀ کان وڏو قصبو هو. اهو افغانستان ڏانهن ويندڙ رستي تي جبلن جي پار پشاور شهر ڏانهن 1,072 ميٽر (3,517 فوٽ) سمنڊ جي مٿاڇري کان مٿي آهي. لنڊي ڪوتل خيبر لڪ جي الهندي ڪناري تي آهي، جيڪو افغانستان جي ننگرهار صوبي ۾ داخل ٿيڻ جو نشان آهي، جيڪو صرف 5 ڪلوميٽر (3 ميل) اولهه ۾ واقع آهي.

لنڊي ڪوتل سياحت جو مرڪز آهي. اهو خيبر پاس ريلوي جو آخري اسٽيشن هو. اڳ ۾ هن ريلوي لائن تي هڪ سياحتي ٽرين "خيبر ٽرين سفاري" هلائي ويندي هئي؛ جڏهن ته، 2006ع ۾ ٻوڏ سبب ريلوي ٽريڪ ۽ پلن جي تباهه ٿيڻ کانپوءِ اها ٽرين سروس بند ٿي وئي. لنڊي ڪوتل، خيبر ايجنسي جي شلماني، شينواري، آفريدي ۽ ملاگوري قبيلن لاءِ خريداري جو مرڪز پڻ آهي.

تاريخ

Landi Kotal during the Second Anglo-Afghan War when it served as an encampment of the 12,000-strong Peshawar Valley Field Force under General Sir Samuel Browne who was crossing the Khyber Pass on the way towards Kabul at the start of the war. The small fort in the foreground guards the western end of the Khyber Pass. Photograph by John Burke

Landi Kotal was the westernmost part of the Khyber held by the British during their rule of the Indian subcontinent. In 1897 the Afridis attacked Landi Kotal and other posts in the Khyber Pass. Although the Khyber Rifles put up a stiff defence, Landi Kotal was overrun, as the Rifles lacked water. The British counter-attacked with a force of 34,500 men under Sir William Lockhart, defeating the Afridis, although the Afridis took the town again during the second Anglo-Afghan War.

The Landi Kotal fort during the period of British rule was of the ordinary type, consisting of a keep and an outer fort with accommodation for 5 British officers and 500 native officers and men. From 1899, like the other posts in the Khyber, it had been garrisoned by the Khyber Rifles, an irregular corps of militia recruited from the tribes of the Khyber Agency.

In 1925 the heavily engineered Khyber Pass Railway was opened, linking Jamrud to Landi Kotal.

يادگارون، لينڊ مارڪ ۽ سياحتي ڪشش

One such tourist attraction nearby Landi Kotal is the Khyber Pass, a mountain pass connecting Landi Kotal to the Valley of Peshawar. Another, slightly less known landmark is a banyan tree, which was placed under arrest in 1898 by a drunk British officer named James Squid. While Pakistan became independent from the United Kingdom in 1947, there is still a board on the tree notifying passerby of its arrest.

آباديات

آبادي

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1951	...	—
1961	1,695	—
1972	...	—
1981	...	—
1998	22,324	—
2017	33,697	+2.19%
2023	38,065	+2.05%
Sources:

As of the 2023 census, Landi Kotal had a population of 38,065.

قابل ذڪر ماڻهو

• Hamza Shinwari
• Shaheen Afridi
• Usman Khan Shinwari
• Khatir Afridi
• Ayub Afridi

پڻ ڏسو

• خيبر لڪ
• لنڊي ڪوتل تعلقو
• لنڊي ڪوٽل ريلوي اسٽيشن
• لنڊي خانو ريلوي اسٽيشن

ٻاهريان ڳنڍڻا

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