Palai, Malakand

Palai is an administrative unit, known as Union council, of Malakand District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

Palai
Union Council
CountryPakistan
ProvinceKhyber Pakhtunkhwa
DistrictMalakand
Time zoneUTC+5 (PST)

District Malakand has 2 Tehsils i.e. Swat Ranizai and Sam Ranizai. Each Tehsil comprises certain numbers of Union councils. There are 28 union councils in district Malakand.

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Palai is famous for premium quality oranges. Throughout the country, Palai and its surrounding villages in the Malakand district are famous for its fine-quality produce. This includes fruits such as Peaches, Guavas, and the all-famous Palai Orange amongst many other citrus fruits. The significance of the above-mentioned issue is not just due to quality, it has to do with quantity as well. The area is home to approximately 171,000 fruit-bearing trees; playing a vital role in the purification of the air and acting as a habitat to countless species of both flora and fauna.

Besides that, the orchards of the area attract tens of thousands of bees during the flowering season every year, serving as a homestead to the honey-making business. In the past few years, the area has observed an exponential increase in the number of trees and orchards, because of the government's arrangement of the water-canal. The construction of Swat Expressway (especially Palai Interchange) is supposed to take the area's Agriculture and Apiculture industries to a whole new level because, for the first time in history, the producers will get an opportunity to showcase their products in bigger markets; both nationally and internationally. Palai Dara includes village Ziarat, Zormadai, Sher Khana, Koza Bazdara and Bara Bazdara. Adam Khan was born in Bara Baz Dara and Durkhanai in Koza Bazdara. Palai Dara has produced several poets including Anwar Hussain, Khaliq Dad Omeed, and Asfandyar Zia.


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