ApnaSwat | Swat valley |
| 07 June 2010
The Indo-Greeks (those Greek rulers who occupied the seats in India after the downfall of the Mauryas) and the Scythian or had its relations and economic ties with them. Menander, among the Indo-Greeks occupied the Swat valley. It was later handed over to a sub-king Antimachus II. At the death of Menander his wife Agathocleia ruled at first in her own right and later jointly with her son. In order to counterbalance theinfluence of Antimachus- who assumed independence at Arrachosia (around Ghazni) –and other descendants of Diodotus, she appointed Zoilus I, a member of her family, as a sub- king in the Swat valley. Zoilus ruled briefly in Swat; for he was went to Arachosia, on the death of Antimachus II, to regain it. After Zoilus I, the known sub-king of Swat is Apollodutus who was overthrown by the Saka chief Maues.
to his father, 1892. Opposed the election of Sayyed Abdul-Jabbar Khan, and forced to go into exile at Dalbar 1915-1916, but returned and took up arms against him in 1916. Established his rule over the Swat valley, September 1917. Elected as Badshah Sahib by a Loya Jirga held at Kabal, in Napki Khel, November 1918. Recognised by the British authorities as ruler, and formally installed as Wali of Swat, at Saidu Sharif, 3rd May 1926. Abdicated in favour of his eldest son, 12th December 1949. Rcvd: silver Jubilee (1935), Coron. (1937), and Pakistan Independence (1948) medals. m. (first) (div. 1903), his cousin, daughter of Miangul Abdul Hanan, by his first wife, the Sayyida. m. (second) after the death of his first wife, … (b. at Zaida, Peshawar district), from a Sayyid family descended from Sayyid 'Ali Shah Tarmizi Pir Baba in Buner, from Kukrai in the Murghzar valley.