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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Mohib Banda
| native_name = محب بانډه
| native_name_lang = ps
| settlement_type = Village and union council
| pushpin_map = Khyber Pakhtunkhwa#Pakistan
| pushpin_label_position = right
| coordinates = {{coord|34|11|53|N|72|06|46|E|region:PK_type:city|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flag|Pakistan}}
| subdivision_type1 = Province
| subdivision_name1 = [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]]
| subdivision_type2 = District
| subdivision_name2 = [[Mardan District]]
| subdivision_type3 = Tehsil
| subdivision_name3 = [[Mardan Tehsil]]
| population_as_of = 2017
| population_total = approx. 19,500
| demographics_type1 = Ethnic groups
| demographics1_info1 = Predominantly [[Pashtun people|Pashtun]]
| timezone1 = [[Pakistan Standard Time|PST]]
| utc_offset1 = +5
}}

'''Mohib Banda''' ({{lang-ps|محب بانډه}}) is a village and union council in [[Mardan Tehsil]] of [[Mardan District]], [[Khyber Pakhtunkhwa]], Pakistan.<ref name="gazetteer1897">{{cite book |title=The Gazetteer of the Peshawar District 1897–98 |publisher=Government of the Punjab |year=1899}}</ref> It is located in the fertile Peshawar Valley, approximately 3 km from Mardan city.

== History ==
Mohib Banda is historically associated with Pashtun Lodhi families in the Mardan region.<ref>{{cite book |title=Report on the Settlement of the Yusufzai Country |publisher=Government Press |year=1851}}</ref> Nineteenth-century British revenue settlement records document village landholding patterns in Mardan and surrounding areas.<ref>{{cite book |title=Report on the Settlement of the Yusufzai Country |publisher=Government Press |year=1872}}</ref>

The village contains the Ghazi Baba graveyard, a prominent local burial site traditionally associated with Lodhi families. Local oral tradition states that the