Bibi Hawa - Mansehra

Pakistan gave us identity and pride in commity of nations. Pakistan was founded on an ideology to have a seperate homeland for muslims of sub-continent. Pakistan was founded by a man who fought this struggle through his intellect, leadership and steadfastness.There are so many unknown contributors to this historic struggle for creation of Pakistan. One of them was BIBI HAWA from Mansehra (Hazara) in NWFP. She was an uneducated lady from modern schooling standards but she has adopted and understood the movement for independence. She is described as a courageous widow wearing turban and having a revolver on hanging from her shoulders.She was married to Khanizaman Khan Swati of Mansehra who died in 1936 and had only one son named as Roshan Khan Swati. Her struggle and contribution towards Pakistan movement was noticed in 1946 when she took out all women of Mansehra for casting votes in histric referendum. Women of Mansehra came out for the first time to cast votes and made referendum in favour of Pakistan.She was an highly devoted follower of famous saint named as Sakhi Sain Saheli sarkar. She was always there to distribute food items amongst poor and needy at the tomb of Saheli sarkar located in Muzaffarabad (Azad Kashmir). She used to walk alone from Mansehra to Muzaffarabad to participate the annual urs of this great sufi saint.She later became first lady councillor of Mansehra after independence and was widely respected.

She was a real hero in historic struggle for creation of Pakistan. He died on August 14, 1969 and laid to rest in Mansehra.