we'll be coming round the mountain when we come from HARIPUR the District of Hazara, Banigala near to Islamabad and monal margla these are located Near the Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
[History of Haripur - First Durrani ]
When Ahmad Shah Durrani expanded his kingdom to Punjab, Hazara came under his control. Durrani considered it wise to rule the area through local tribal chiefs, especially the Tareen chiefs who remained the main administrators from around the 1760s to 1818/1819. The Durranis' rule ended abruptly in the beginning of the 19th century, circa 1819 or 1820, with the advent of the Sikhs.
[Second sikh annexation Hazara to haripur]
The Sikhs annexed Hazara in two stages: first, Lower Hazara was annexed when the Sikhs under Makhan Singh took over the plains, on the invitation of a Turk chieftain, who betrayed his country to save himself. Upper Hazara suffered a similar fate when the Sikhs took Kashmir from the Barakzai Afghans in 1819.
The town of Haripur (meaning 'Hari's town') was founded in 1822 by Hari Singh Nalwa, the Commander-in-Chief of Ranjit Singh's army. On the successful completion of his tenure as governor of Kashmir in 1821, pakhli and Damtaur were bestowed upon Nalwa as a jagir. tanolis were the greater threat to sikhs. Painda Khan tanoli defeated Ranjit Singh near Tarbeela .As soon as Nalwa received this grant, he built the walled town of Haripur in the heart of the Haripur plain, centered on the fort of Harkishan Garh, which he encircled with a deep trench. The site selected had seen some of the fiercest fighting between Sikhs and Afghans. Despite the presence of the fort and a strong Sikh of the Lower Hazara until they had defeated and captured and executed the Tareen chiefs and warriors like Muhammad Khan, Boston Khan and some others.
[Third British India]
The presence of the fort at Harkishangarh,with its four-yard thick and 16-yard high wall, eventually brought a feeling of security to the region. In 1835, Baron Heugel, a German traveler found only remnants of that wall remaining.
Haripur was the sole example of a planned town in this region until the British built.
Now Haripur location in Pakistan .
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