Basia is a small village in Attock District

Attock District

Attock District is a district in the north-west Punjab Province of Pakistan.The district was created in April 1904 by the merger of Talagang Tehsil in the Jhelum District with the Pindigheb, Fatehjang and Attock tehsils from Rawalpindi District of the Punjab province of British India.Attock...

. It is located between Peshawar

Peshawar

Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....

 and Islamabad

Islamabad

Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...

, not far from Attock

Attock

Attock is a city located in the northern border of the Punjab province of Pakistan and the headquarters of Attock District...

 City.

The name Basia itself comes from Abasia, which then changed over time to Basia.

The name Abasia came from its forefather Hazrat Abbas

Abbas

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 bin Ali Radyallahu Anho, Abbas the Son of Ali

Ali

' |Ramaḍān]], 40 AH; approximately October 23, 598 or 600 or March 17, 599 – January 27, 661).His father's name was Abu Talib. Ali was also the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and ruled over the Islamic Caliphate from 656 to 661, and was the first male convert to Islam...

 RA. Ali RA was married to Umme Banin RA and it is believed that their son Abbas is where the Awan

Awan (Pakistan)

Awan , is a South Asian Zamindar tribe, putatively of Arab origin, living predominantly in northern, central, and western parts of Punjab, Pakistan...

 Tribe started from.

The village consists of a single tribe known as Qazi. The Qazis originate from the Awan

Awan (Pakistan)

Awan , is a South Asian Zamindar tribe, putatively of Arab origin, living predominantly in northern, central, and western parts of Punjab, Pakistan...

 tribe which in turn came from Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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 and before that from the Arab

Arab

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 lands.

The Qazis have 3 villages in Attock

Attock

Attock is a city located in the northern border of the Punjab province of Pakistan and the headquarters of Attock District...

 but primarily Basia is one of their strongholds. Qazi means Judge - which they were in the courts of the Mughals. They used to base their verdicts on the Shariah and were known for their piety.

They are a very hospitable and generous tribe. Their land once was renowned for being the second largest in Chach or Attock

Attock

Attock is a city located in the northern border of the Punjab province of Pakistan and the headquarters of Attock District...

.

This tribe was famous for having a large amount of land, totalling more than 65 marrabe. Basia is an old village and as they had more than what they can handle, they eventually gave it to other people, mostly who worked on their lands free.