Swabi District


Swabi District is a district in the Mardan Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It lies between the Indus and Kabul Rivers. Before becoming a district in 1988, it was a tehsil within the Mardan District. % of the population have Pashto as their first language.

Demographics

The population of Swabi district, according to the 2017 census, is 1,624,616. The population of the district over the years is shown in the table below.
Census YearPopulationRural AreaUrban Area
1951272,279272,279-
1961332,543307,86224,681
1972507,631440,21367,418
1981625,035566,73458,301
19981,026,804847,590179,214
20171,624,616N/AN/A

Education

Swabi District is now home to many excellent educational institutes. But there was no public sector university until 2012. The only degree awarding institution then was private sector Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, which was inaugurated in 1993. In 2012, the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa established the first public sector university in Swabi, when it upgraded Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan Swabi campus into full-flege University of Swabi while Women University Swabi was established in 2016. Swabi district also has a public sector medical college Gajju Khan Medical College Swabi, which was established in 2014.
The district also has 2 public sector Postgraduate degree colleges: Government Postgraduate College Swabi and Govt Girls Post Graduate College Maneri Swabi.

Administration

Swabi District is currently subdivided into 4 Tehsils.
Currently there are couple of newspaper publishing in Swabi under the supervision of the Swabi Group of Newspapers.