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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/Pukhtoon/Pushtun 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 groups called KHEL locally. The significant among them are Babu khel,Jalal Khel, Hasan khel Jana Khel Norang Khel, Bara Khan Khel,Baba khel, chajo khel, Bara khel, Adi khel,Dadu khel and Lazaq. Mulayan, now mixed with several Khels, by living in the communities of different Khels and marrying in them, is also one of the modern social identity living in the village. There are some other minorities living in the village. Among them are Dhobyan, Shahakhelyan, Duman, Nayan,Chumyaran, 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 supported Haji Adam Khan of ANP to become first nazim of local government system,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.
The soil of the Thandkoi 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, Cock and dog Fighting, Gulli dandai and Kite flying are some of the activities villagers like the most. Thand Koi has more than 10 schools which is 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.