Origins
Pir Faqirullah Bakoti Usmani's ancestors came from Kundan Shakrean five hundred years ago. His father, Molana Mian Hafiz Taj Mohammed Usmani, was a religious leader at the time and probably migrated from Phanna Chapprhean, Chikar, district Muzafferabad, Kashmir to the Hazara Division, where his uncle was a priest in a religious school in Baffa, Mansehra. He then went to Swat, to obtain spiritual training from the Ahkoond of Swat known as Pir Abdul Ghafoor, and stayed there many years and completed his religio-spiritual education in 1876, then returned to Hazara. Eventually settling in Bakot area, where the local tribes donated some land for him to build a small mosque and house for himself. It is claimed he came and settled here on the orders of his mentor the Akhoond. He later initiated resistance against British colonial rule from this location
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