Landi Kotal

 ( Populated Places In Khyber District ) 

Lanḍī Kōtal (, ) or Lwargai ( Lwāṛgai) is a town in the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, and the administrative capital of Khyber District. It was one of the largest towns in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas, and is located above sea level, on the route across the mountains to the city of Peshawar.Photo caption for Landi Kotal WDL11475.png, Library of Congress Location of Landi Kotal – Falling Rain Genomics Landi Kotal is at the western edge of the Khyber Pass that marks the entrance to the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan, which is located just to the west.

Landi Kotal is a tourist destination. It was the terminus railway station of Khyber Pass Railway. A tourist train, the Khyber train safari was run on this railway. However, the train closed down in 2006 after floods washed away the railway track and bridges.

Landi Kotal is the main shopping centre for the Shalmani, Shinwari, Afridi, and Mulagori Pashtun tribes of Khyber Agency.

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History Landi Kotal was the westernmost part of the Khyber held by the British Empire during their British Raj of the Indian subcontinent. Landi Kotal – Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 134. 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, Landi Kotal – Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 135. as the Rifles lacked water. Khyber – Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 15, p. 303. 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. Tīrāh – Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 23, p. 390.

The Landi Kotal Fortification 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.

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Monuments, Landmarks, and Tourist Attractions 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, 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.

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Demographics

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

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Notable people

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

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See also [6]==External links==

{Landi Kotal railway station} {[7]}

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