# Where is Swat, and do they still have a Sultan?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 14, 2001, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-swat-and-do-they-still-have-a-sultan/57882 "2001-03-14T01:52:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kilt-wearin\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/82dd89/32.png) [@Kilt-wearin\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilt-wearin_man)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-swat-and-do-they-still-have-a-sultan/57882/21 "2002-04-08T17:28:17Z")

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> \*Originally posted by DrFidelius \*  
> \*\*You might as well ask where “Swing” is, as there is a “King of Swing”.  
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Swing also apparently has a plural sultanate, as there are also Sultans of Swing. Apparently, according to anecdotal evidence, the Sultans played Creole…

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**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-swat-and-do-they-still-have-a-sultan/57882/22 "2002-04-08T19:30:30Z")

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> \*Originally posted by MEBuckner \*  
> \*\*however the Almanach also indicates that HH is (or was at one time) a Member of Parliament (of Pakistan, I presume), so he may not feel any pressing need to assemble an army of adventurers and return to claim the throne. \*\*

Seeing as how Gen. Pervez Musharraf dissolved the Pakistani parliament as part of his coup in October 1999, it would seem the Swat nobility continue to get the short end of the stick.

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**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-swat-and-do-they-still-have-a-sultan/57882/23 "2002-04-08T19:39:05Z")

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> I stand corrected, and slack-jawed in amazement…

Your proper response, **Dr. F** , ought to have been _"Peccavi_…

which, as everyone knows, means “I have Sind.” (It’s southeast of Swat.)

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**Author:** ![bardos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bardos/32/1069_2.png) [@bardos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bardos)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-swat-and-do-they-still-have-a-sultan/57882/24 "2003-02-19T09:00:18Z")

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[http://www.swatvalley.com/](http://www.swatvalley.com/)

lovely place. At least it was 30 years ago when I lived there. It’s kind of located in hardcore islamic fundamentalist territory at the moment.

b.

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**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-swat-and-do-they-still-have-a-sultan/57882/25 "2003-02-19T16:00:42Z")

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I guess that’s where those teenaged girls “Swat Valley High” novels take place.

Of course, there, girls aren’t allowed to learn how to read…

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