Overview
Muzaffarabad is named after Sultan Muhammad Muzaffar Khan, the pioneer of the Bamba (Banu-ummayyad) clan in the region.The family has ruled Muzaffarabad for hundred of years. Further, the dynasty was distributed among Sultan of Boe, Sultan of Lawasi, Sultan of Kathai and Sultan of Kahori. Some of the great names belonging to the family are; Sultan Matwali khan (jageerdar Kathai), Sultan Hassan Ali Khan (jageerdar Boe and the member of parliament of Combined India on the seat of jageerdar), Sultan Qutub-ud-din Khan (jageerdar Lawasi), Sultan Feroz din Khan (son of jageerdar Lawasi), Raja Muhammad Hussain Khan (son of jageerdar Lawasi and son-in-law of jageerdar Boe), Raja Muhammad Nasir Khan (son of jageerdar Lawasi and secretary to Maharaja kashmir), Muhammad Muzaffar Khan (first Muslim judge in Kashmir), Raja Nassar-ud-din Khan (son-in-law of Muzaffar khan), Raja Tanveer Hussain Khan (Nawab of Palhotar) and so many more. The residents of Muzaffarabad are a highly literate and business orientated class maintaining close ties with the financial capitals of Northern Pakistan, primarily Rawalpindi and the KPK. Muzaffarabad is a prime destination for further and higher education for the youth of Azad Kashmir and also produces the elite class of Azad Kashmir such as doctors, engineers, lawyers and businessmen. An interesting point to note is that the entrance to the Kashmir valley faces northwards and passes westwardly through Neelum and down towards Muzaffarabad, where trade had flourished prior to the Kashmir dispute between the valley and Azad Kashmir.
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