Toru, Pakistan

Toru MardanToru is a village and union council in Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It has an altitude of 291 m (958 feet). It is believed that village Toru has been founded by Torais, one of the military generals of Sikandar e Azam. Since it was founded by him, the name of the area was called as Torais, but as the time passed, it became Toru.The inhabitants of Toru are Yousafzai Pashtun, tracing their origin to central Asia and Afghanistan in particular. It is a small, significant area of the Mardan district in the Khyber Pakhtun-khua province of Pakistan. The inhabitants are well educated and serving the nation in different key posts in the government as well as private sector. But for the elders and illiterate persons farming is their specialised sector for their day to day earnings. Many people from the village are working in Middle East and Europe and some are permanently settled there. Once Toru was also known as a 'Bukhara Sani' because this fertile soil has produced great religious scholars of its time. Toru also produced some famous poeter and writer like noorul Bashar naved, ARIF zakhmi known as Muhammad Arif Toru. Also, people from Afghanistan and Central Asia were used to come here to seek religious knowledge from these scholars and ulema. The people of Toru are divided in different khel (castes): Khan khel, kambar khel, Amo khel, zaid khel, Sadi khel, Moosa khel, Boosi khel,mian berra, Zargran, Biland khel of Qayum Abad, Qaziyan,mohallah Garden and Rashid Abad. Amo khel and Khan khel were the great of all time because they often used to settle the disputes among other residents of the locality also both of these khels acquired about 60% land of the village.