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		Dassu is the divisional headquarter, whereas Pattan, Palas and Dassu are the three Tehsils of Kohistan District.
		Kohistan is one of the least developed districts in the country and its national significance is the Karakurum Highway.
		Kohistan is where the famous Hindukush, Karakuram and Himalayan mountain systems meet and serve as a natural boundary for environmental regions in the chains of Himalayan, Karakurum and Hindukush mountains.
	www.palasvalley.org /pallas_index.htm (619 words)

	Kohistan - LoveToKnow 1911
		KOHISTAN, a tract of country on the Peshawar border of the North-West Frontier Province of India.
		Kohistan means the "country of the hills" and corresponds to the English word highlands; but it is specially applied to a district, which is very little known, to the south and west of Chilas, between the Kagan valley and the river Indus.
		Like the mountains of Chilas, those in Kohistan are snow-bound and rocky wastes from their crests downwards to 12,000 ft. Below this the hills are covered with fine forest and grass to 5000 or 6000 ft., and in the valleys, especially near the Indus, are fertile basins under cultivation.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Kohistan (384 words)

	News: South Asia: Earthquake - Oct 2005, Pakistan: Tenant quake survivors angry at lack of compensation, Feature ...
		In Kohistan, with a total area of 7,492 sq km, 131 people were killed in the quake, out of a total population of 472,570.
		Tenants also maintain that in many cases in Kohistan, the larger, more solidly built homes of landlords remained unaffected, but they have still collected compensation for the fallen shacks of tenants, and, at best, passed on only a tiny fraction of his sum to the tenant.
		In Kohistan and the neighbouring parts of Shangla district, where winter is harsh and people are routinely left isolated by snows from larger towns, local people also point out that rebuilding homes is essential.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/KHII-6K27T9?OpenDocument (1294 words)

	News
		Kohistan had suffered 660 deaths due to the earthquake and another 598 persons were injured.
		Kohistan’s district coordination officer (DCO), Zahir Shah told that the flow of relief goods and services to the quake-affected areas had increased.
		It is pertinent to mention that the provincial revenue minister, Maulana Asmatullah, belongs to Kohistan.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Headlines/Oct05/29/08.htm (750 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Kohistan
		Kohistan is one of the least developed districts in the country and its national significance is the Karakurum Highway.
		Kohistan is where the famous Hindukush, Karakuram and Himalayan mountain systems meet and serve as a natural boundary for environmental regions in the chains of Himalayan, Karakurum and Hindukush mountains.
		The people in Kohistan largely depend on livestock for their livelihood and this is also the reason for their seasonal migration to sub-alpine and alpine pastures of Kohistan and neighbouring valleys and districts.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kohistan (305 words)

	Northward subduction of the Indian Plate beneath the Kohistan island arc, Pakistan Himalaya: New evidence from isotopic ...
		The intra-oceanic Kohistan island arc was initiated during the Cretaceous as a result of northward movement of the Indian Plate.
		Boninitic volcanic rocks in the Kohistan arc form a volumetrically minor part of a compositionally diverse sequence in the northern part of the arc.
		The Kohistan island arc was initiated offshore of Asia during the Cretaceous as a result of subduction of Neo-Tethyan oceanic crust during the northward movement of the Indian Plate.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3721/is_200305/ai_n9196004 (906 words)

	FAO/WFP Joint Drought Assessment Mission in Sindh
		Rain-fed wheat is grown in Kachho and Kohistan deserts of Dadu district.
		In the Kohistan and Kachho deserts, rain-fed agriculture is the main source of livelihood.
		In Kohistan and Kachho areas of Dadu, the livelihood depends mostly on rain-fed agriculture; the drought has led to permanent migration of 60 percent of the population.
	www.un.org.pk /drought/sindhmission.htm (5138 words)

	Ethnobotany of some useful trees of Hindu-Kush mountain region
		Kohistan, the place of mountains was called “ Yaghistan”, the land of rebels, during the British rule.
		Indus Kohistan in the east and upper parts of District Dir and some parts of Chitral in the West.
		The population of Swat Kohistan is 31029 and the area is about 206523 hectares (District Census Report, 1998).
	www.siu.edu /~ebl/leaflets/paktrees.htm (2419 words)

	Afghanland.com Afghanistan King Habibullah Kalakani Bacha i Saqao
		Habibullah Kalakani (the bandit King) was born in 1890s in Kohistan area north of Kabul, Afghanistam.
		By October 1929, Kabul is surrounded by forces of Nadir Khan and Habibullah escapes Kabul to return to his village in Kohistan as a fugitives.
		In Kohistan, Habibullah is manipulating his next move when the villagers surround him, and begin to stone him till he is unconscious.
	www.afghanland.com /history/kalakani.html (773 words)

	Scurvy outbreak and erosion of livelihoods masked by low wasting levels in drought affected Northern Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kohistan is one of the most remote districts of Faryab Province in Afghanistan.
		Though the situation in the whole of Faryab Province, especially Kohistan, has been recognised to be serious, there were no previous comprehensive population-based assessments conducted.
		As a result of the drought many people had sold most of their animals, dramatically reducing the average family animal ownership to only 1.1 goats, 1.8 sheep, 0.3 cattle/oxen and 0.7 donkeys.
	www.ennonline.net /fex/13/fa14.html (2751 words)

	KOHISTAN - Online Information article about KOHISTAN
		Kohistan means the " country of the hills " and corresponds to the See also:
		An important district also known as Kohistan lies to the north of See also:
		The name of Kohistan is also applied to a tract of barren and hilly country on the east border of See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /KHA_KRI/KOHISTAN.html (555 words)

	THATTA: TB cases on the rise in Kohistan -DAWN - Local; April 4, 2003
		THATTA, April 3: The hilly terrain of Kohistan in Thatta district comprising union councils Jungshahi, Jhampir and part of union council Onger, having a population of more than a 100,000, has seen a rise in the number of tuberculosis patients since the last six months.
		This correspondent has learnt through various sources including the Kohistan Rural Support Programme that 244 TB cases had been diagnozed in Novemeber and December last year in the union council Jhampir alone.
		Dr Abbas Gopang, general secretary of a local NGO, said that innumerable cases of TB had also been reported in other parts of Kohistan including Sari, Sarchat and Thana Bula Khan, and added that reports were frequently reaching of patients periodically succumbing to the disease.
	www.dawn.com /2003/04/04/local22.htm (386 words)

	Ethnologue: Pakistan
		Upper Swat Kohistan from between Peshmal and Kalam north to upper valleys above Kalam, also in Dir Kohistan, in Thal, Lamuti (Kinolam), Biar (Jiar), and Rajkot (Patrak) villages.
		East bank of the Indus in Kohistan District, NWFP, in the Jalkot, Palas, and Kolai valleys and surrounding areas.
		Swat Kohistan, on both sides of Swat River from just beyond Madyan north to Asrit (between Mankjal and Peshmal), and in Chail Valley east of Madyan, Bahrain and Chail are centers.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Pakn.html (4028 words)

	From intra-oceanic convergence to post-collisional evolution
		It is dated at 75-65 Ma by plutonism developing along the Shyok Suture Zone, earlier in Kohistan (~ 75 Ma, Petterson and Windley, 1985), and later in eastern Ladakh (Tirit granite, 73.6-68 Ma; Weinberg and Dunlap, 2000; Weinberg et al., 2000).
		The stages that directly preceded, or accompanied, the accretion, are coeval with intense magmatism, with emplacement of granodiorite to granite plutons along the Kohistan-Ladakh Batholith.
		This late magmatism largely overprints the arc structure, being responsible for granulite-facies metamorphism in the central part of Ladakh (Raz and Honegger, 1989; Rolland et al., 2000) and amphibolite to epidote-amphibolite metamorphism along the northern suture (Hanson, 1989; Rolfo et al., 1997).
	www.virtualexplorer.com.au /journal/2002/08/rolland/paper3.html (1453 words)

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		Chitral borders it to the north, Swat to the east, Afghanistan and Bajour to the west, and Malakand to the south.
		Among the tribes of Indus Kohistan, a region bordering the Indus River to the east of Swat Kohistan, intracommunity political relationships are organized around institutionalized revenge and highly complex notions of personal honor.
		Shaking his head, he declared that the people of Kohistan were among the most lawless in Pakistan—and that the men of Thull were the most lawless in all of Kohistan.
	www.wadsworth.com /anthropology_d/templates/student_resources/087581445X_morrison/sample_chapter/06.html (7830 words)

	Geological Survey of Pakistan
		Based on the seismo-tectonic studies of Hazar-Kohistan, MBT west of the syntaxes shows downward extension towards north in Kohistan in Indus-Kohistan seismic zone which is a thrust and is seismically active zone.
		The Kohistan Earthquake of 6.5 M of December 1974 located on the Pattan Fault in the same region may also have contributed to the recent event as the IKSZ trends NNW-SSE for about 40 km connecting the Hazara syntaxes with Main Mantle Thrust (MMT) in the vicinity of Pattan.
		A team of GSP geologists was also dispatched to the high risk zone in Alai, Battagram areas to investigate the reports of volcanic activity in the area and smoke emitting from the mountains.
	www.gsp.gov.pk /gsps_role.html (2098 words)

	IUCN - Pakistan Programme
		District Education Officer Dir was the chief guest at the certificate distributing ceremony.
		Haji Sanaullah Khan elaborated in detail, integrated measures taken by the Dir Kohistan chapter of the ERNP in halting and reversing the process of environmental degradation in partnership with the local communities.
		He appreciated the support and involvement of Education Department and participating teacher on making the first environmental education workshop in Dir Kohistan a big success.
	www.iucn.org /places/pakistan/news/020aug.htm (331 words)

	R4E: Diary - 20th December 2005 - Horseshoes in Indus Kohistan
		Besham lay at the start of Indus Kohistan, a wild frontier land, full of long bearded men and unpopular with the guide books.
		Since there were blatantly no horseshoes here I stabled the horses and took the next van back to Thakot.
		I'd like to give my appreciation to all the staff at each motel especially to Akbar Khan at Besham for his skill with the horses and to Riaz Raja Ahmed Khan in Gilgit for his support and general good humour.
	www.r4e.org /20Dec_Induskohistan.htm (2371 words)

	IngentaConnect U-Pb Zircon Dating of Regional Deformation in the Lower Crust of ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Felsic veins several cm thick to bodies several hundreds of m wide are sporadically distributed in the Kamila amphibolites of the Kohistan arc sequence.
		Ages of the deformed dikes, the gneissose granitic body, and the amphibolite xenolith indicate that ductile deformation in the lower crust of the Kohistan arc took place episodically or successively during the period from 107 to 81 Ma.
		Collision between Asia and the Kohistan arc elsewhere was inferred to be before 80 Ma.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/bell/igr/2005/00000047/00000010/art00003 (240 words)

	Precollision tilt of crustal blocks in rifted island arcs: Structural evidence from the Kohistan Arc
		We describe results from field and microstructural investigations in the unusually large Chilas plutonic complex, which was emplaced within the Mesozoic Kohistan island arc (northern Pakistan).
		Magmatic and deformational fabrics of the Chilas gabbronorite are concordant with magmatic fabrics of associated gabbros, diorites, and tonalites and show that this reportedly huge intrusion is composed of juxtaposed plutonic bodies with predominantly SSW dipping flow structures over the northeastern part of the complex, which turn to SW-NE striking, subvertical attitudes to the west.
		We hypothesize that the northward dip of the southern side of the Kohistan is inherited from late Cretaceous rotation of crustal blocks in the hanging wall of the listric faults.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2006/2005TC001835.shtml (384 words)

	Assefa - 2001
		Assefa F, Jabarkhil MZ, Salama P, Spiegel P. Malnutrition and mortality in Kohistan District, Afghanistan, April 2001.
		OBJECTIVE: To assess the magnitude and causes of mortality and prevalence of malnutrition in Kohistan district, Faryab province, Afghanistan.
		Essential humanitarian services, including food aid and public health programs, are urgently required in such regions of Afghanistan and will be crucial if a worsening humanitarian crisis is to be avoided.
	www.ph.ucla.edu /EPI/rapidsurveys/assefa_2001rs.html (392 words)

	Pre-Harapan Chronology of Sindh
		The Kohistan of Sindh from Karachi to Ghari Khairo, would also have supported twice as many animals, as the present.
		Wet climate was an advantage to the man in domestication of cattle, and ultimately lead to domestication of agricultural crops, in Thar, Kohstan, as far as Sibi and central Sindh.
		Although some of the towns of the Indus or Harappan culture were not occupied for a long time after their decline, the others continued to be occupied.
	www.panhwar.com /Article31.htm (3408 words)

	Seismic Risk in Northern Pakistan and the KILLER Earthquake of 8th October 2005
		The primary suspect manifesting on 8.10.2005 in the morning with a Richter Magnitude of 7.6 and epicenter located about 95 km NNE of Islamabad in the Hazara-Kashmir Syntaxes in close proximity to the MBT (focal depth = 10-20 Km a shallow focus quake) wrecked havoc causing colossal damage to life and property.
		The death and destruction in Muzaffarabad, Hazara, Kohistan, NWFP, Islamabad, AJK and disputed Kashmir areas is a geological reckoner of the seismically active, tectonically unstable region of northern Pakistan where the Indo-Pak and Eurasian convergent Plates characterized by the continent-continent collision, obduction and thrusting is alive.
		Based on the seismo- tectonic studies of Hazara and Kohistan the MBT, west of the syntaxis shows downward extension towards north in Kohistan and is called the Indus –Kohistan seismic zone.
	www.gsp.gov.pk /eathquake.htm (527 words)

	Peridot \| Mineralium.com - Fine Mineral Specimens
		The Sapat valley in the Kohistan District of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan is a difficultly accessible, wild region with a beautifully unspoiled landscape.
		Attractive miniature size specimen with well-developed rhombic dipyramidal Olivine crystals of typical olive-green color and nicely contrasting remains of a matrix consisting of white Palygorskite and Talc.
		Attractive small cabinet size specimen with well-developed rhombic dipyramidal Olivine crystals of typical olive-green color and nicely contrasting remains of a matrix consisting of white Palygorskite and Talc.
	www.mineralium.com /index.php?lang=ENG&list=PERIDOT-OLIVIN (1250 words)

	Eos/Indus Fan
		The modern Indus drainage basin is dominated by the high peaks of the Karakoram, Kohistan and other tectonic units of the Indus Suture Zone, rather than the High Himalaya, which form the principle sediment sources to the Bengal Fan.
		This mineral is considered to be uniquely tied to erosion of the Kohistan Arc terrane and thus an Indus River source.
		Sandstones of this description are not found in the eastern Potawar Plateau and all points eastward in the foreland, a relationship that requires the Indus River to have exited the mountain front in approximately the same position (±100 km) since at least the Middle Miocene (~11 Ma).
	www.whoi.edu /pclift/eostxt.html (1827 words)

	Karakoram Highway - Kohistan
		Much of Kohistan skirts Nanga Parbat, the western anchor of the Himalaya.
		This is near Chilas, on the northern end of the KKH's trip through Kohistan.
		Located here area incredible rock carvings detailing the travels of many Chinese monks who brought Buddhism from Pakistan and India up the Indus gorge and to their homelands.
	www.mango.itgo.com /kkh_kohistan.htm (429 words)

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	Stop TB Partnership - Partners' Directory
		Kohistan Development & Environmental Council (KDEC) is a social, non-governmental, not-for-profit, non-political organization, established by highly motivated and educated youngsters of Kohistan in 2000.
		Two years later, KDEC grew out of the District Kohistan and acquired registration with directorate of social welfare and women development Peshawar NWFP under the ordnance 1961 having registration No DSW/NWFP?2091.
		The main focus of our TB work is...
	www.stoptb.org /partners/partner_profile.asp?PartnerID=2144 (82 words)

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