Alexander was in hurry when he came to Swat he was unable to Local people in Swat valley even today say that if he had time to relax at the bank of Swat River and feel the cool breeze coming from the snow capped Ushu mountain and to listen to the echo of the flutes coming from the mountain of the vally he would never had left this heaven on earth and today his grave would have been here.
300 year
s later Kanishka did feel the romance of this valley and left the busy city of Peshawar carrying his capital on horses horses and came to Swat Valley he made Swat the capital of his Gandhara kingdom and remained here. The numerous atricles found from different archeological sites are the proof of a prosprous and joyful erra of this vally. In the 6th century AD white Huns came and destroyed every site of the Buddhism and wounded and killed the loving people of the valley, After the attack of White Huns Hyun Sang came for pilgrmage of this valley and sadly wrote that most of 1400 monastries of Swat are either burned or abondand and have been ruined, Most of the monks have left or are dead, those who remain do talk about the Buddhism but they themselves don't know the meaning of the teachings of Buddha. Huan Sang wrote this account of the valley and took all the written material on 40 horses to china, Although Huan Sang wrote this 1500 years ago but it seems he is talking about what is happening now in this beautiful heaven on earth. Even After the brutal invasion of Whiten Huns Swat still remained a pilgrimage place for Buddhist was was ruled and inhabited by Buddhists until Sultan Mehmood of Ghani invaded Swat and last Buddhist Raja Geera was overthrown. In the end of 15th century this valley was invaded by the Afghan Yousuzais, they pushed the inhabitants of this vally towards the Indus vally thus a new region and nation emerged by the name of Hazara which is still the name of the region and the name of the people living near the confluance of river Indus and Kabul. The new comer Yousufzais were not as bad as White Huns they developed Militry riles and their King Sardar Sheikh Milli even wrote poetry which was known at the Conquest of Swat. Bayazid Ansari wrote hist Biography and wrote books like Khairul Bayan which was a book about the laws distribution of land and rules of division. Akhund Zada Daweza wrote "Tazkerah" and "Makhzan" all these were marked as the base of Pushto literature. These two books are considered as the master pieces of Persian and Pushto literature of those days. Akhund Darweza Baba held many religious discussions with Bayazid Ansari. In 1050 AD great poet of Pushto Khushal Khan Khattak came to Swat. During his stay in Swat, he wrote �Swat Nama� in verse. It was a great contribution to Pushto literature in Swat. �Swat Nama� contains the geographical, cultural, political and historical aspects of the Swat of those days. After Moghuls in the middle of the 19th century two local rulers Akbar Shah & Mubarak Sha ruled Swat they both tried to rule according to the religion and the culture but as English took over their rule come to an end. From 1863 to 1915 this region was ruled by the neighboring state of Dir than one day the tribes men of Swat held a Jirga in Kabal and they chose Mian Gulshan Zada Abdul wudood as the Wali of Swat. Mian Gul Wudood was crowned in 1916 and he was popularly called as Bacha Saheb of Swat. Bacha Saheb was a progressive ruler British accepted his kingdom as semiautonomous Kingdom, he was entitled for a salute of 15 Guns He made Pushto the official language replacing Persian for the first time lands were alloted to the people according inheritance which generated a new era of Khans (Land Lords) who got along well with the king but wanted to keep the poors and farmers underdeveloped. Mian Gul Bacha Saheb also got a constitution made up of religious and cultural teaching and named it "Fatavi Wudidia"
