Behali

The hills around Behali and Mansehra belong to the old country of Pakhli in Hazara. Near Mansehra, three great boulders bear edicts of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, inscribed in the Kharoshthi script in the third century BCE. The region later formed the Mughal sarkar of Pakhli within Kashmir. After the invasions of Ahmad Shah Durrani, authority divided among local chiefs until Sikh forces conquered the area in 1818.