Muqeem Shah

Muqeem Shah (( مقیم شاہ or Muqeem Shah, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa is a town a in the Dera Ismail Khan District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan.GeographyThe town is situated in north of District D.I. Khan, at a distance of 25 km across Bannu road, the town has a link road from Bannu road at place named Muqeem Shah Adda. The town comes in Union Council Kech. The neighbourhood villages are Kech, Hissam, Pusha, Girsal. The town Muqeem Shah is located at centre of the cited Union Council. It lies at an altitude of 188 metres (620 feet).NameThe town is named after Syed Peer Muqeem Shah, who is buried there. He belonged to the Sherazi family that later migrated to Dera Ismail Khan, a town situated in the Dera Ismail Khan District in the south of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.HistoryThere is no one having a complete history about the foundation of town, but some clues show that the town is very old. Some graves in the town's graveyard are at least two or three hundard years old. The data about Syed Peer Muqeem Shah is also not available in solid shape, there are just unreliable stories about him: Some say, he had been migrated from Sindh, some relate him to Hujra Shah Muqeem, some say, his brother is buried in Sargodha.PopulationThe population of the town is of about 300 houses. The population is now increasing because being a peace full place people are migrating here day by day.