History of Zarobai

History of 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; it'a 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. Chuch 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(Chuch 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.

The question arises in minds ''Why this village is known as Zarobai?''

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. May be 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 & 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 we have authentic proofs of genealogical table & hence write Yousafzai with our names.

The land of Zarobai is very fertile in nature. Large no. of great & famous people in every field of life are born here, like national heroes, religious scholars, doctors, engineers, poets, literature related & loving people, political leaders & workers, social volunteers, players of various local, national & international games. All these have played a gigantic roll in their respective fields. It is not possible for me to describe their names with their respective deeds because if I forget somebody's name it would be unsurpation/usurpation & to usurp/unsurp the right of someone especially in history is a big sin.


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