saidu

Updated: July 17, 2025

They have very little political influence; but their persons and property are respected by the people and by the British for the sake of their grandfather, who sleeps in an odour of sanctity at Saidu, near Mingaora. From the Malakand the signal tower of Chakdara can be seen eight miles away to the eastward. Thither the broad graded road runs like a ribbon across the plain.

Winston Churchill - The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War