Thandkoi
Thandkoi is a historical village of Swabi District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. The population is about 30, 000.
Thandkoi is situated on the main Jehangira-Topi road. A small village Dodher is located on its south, to the North of Thandkoi is Bamkhel, east Marghuz and to the West is Kaddi and Zaida.
The village has its own Union Council, called Union council Thand koi including Thand koi, Kaddi and Dodher whose first nazim was Haji Malik adam Khan.
There is a branch of (National Bank), one Hospital, dozen of Schools and Post Office.
Mandanr Yousafzai, one of the main clans of Pathan/Pakhtoon/Pashtun are settled here Yousafzai originate from Yousaf who was the younger son of Manday Khan.
Yousaf's elder brother was Umar, who died young and left his only son named Mandanr. Mandanr later married to Yousaf's daughter. But for simplicity they are called Yousafzai instead of Mandanr Yousafzi.
In Thandkoi, they are further subdivided into a number of Pashtoon groups called KHELS locally. These Pashtoon khels are indeed the khans and maliks of the area.
The significant among them are Bara khan khel,Babu khel, Jalal Khel, Hasan khel Jana Khel Norang Khel,Musa khel, Baba khel, chajo khel, Adi khel, Dadu khel and Lazaq. Mulayan, now are mixed with several Khels, by living in the communities of different Khels and marrying between them, is also one of their social identity, well educated and stronger in financial point of view living in the village.
There are some other minorities living in the village as well. Among them are Dhobyan, Shahakhelyan, Duman, Nayan, Chumyaran, malyaran,Julagan etc.
Yousafzai came from Afghanistan in 1450 century in the times of Mughal king Jalaluddin Muhammad Babar and started fighting with the local residents. They fought and defeated the Tanolis: one of the local tribes living in the area since long, at Topi which is a town of District Swabi. Since then they are living in the area.
As per as the politics is concerned, Thand koi changes its views on every election. In Musharraf era it was strong supporter of MMA party but at the same time its people support Haji Adam Khan of MMA Party to become first nazim of local government system, Haji Adam khan (Late) served as a village Nazim and Haji Zar Khan (Late) as a farmer counselor, supported by Bahadar sher (Late) and Amir sher (Late) in the election, also belong to the respectable family Babakhel.
In 2008 Election Pervez Advocate became MNA from ANP.
In 2013 election its people supported both PTI and PML N which was eventually ended on PTI success.
It's soil is fertile so many of the villagers are associated with farming. Tobacco is a cash crop of village along with wheat, vegetables, sugar cane, maize and rice. Some fruits like watermelon, peaches and apricots are also grown here.
Thandkoi is also famous for its colourful traditional games: Kabaddi, Makha, Gulli dandai, Kite flying and nowadays cricktet and football are some of the activities villagers like the most.
Thand Koi has more than 10 schools which is presumably one of the highest for any village of its size in the whole of country.
There are several Deeni Madrassa (religious schools) teaching Islamic education.