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Topic: Kohistan District, Pakistan


  
  history
Linguistically, culturally, historically, geographically and by race, the inhabitants of Kohistan are related with the population of Northern Areas while electorally this region is annexed with the Province of North West Frontier.
Kohistan had the important political impact when the Wali of Swat stirred by the English, took over Duber in 1938, Pattan in January 1939 and Khandia and Sea in July 1939 and merged the western part of Kohistan into Swat state.
Sir George Roose-Keppel, Chief Commissioner of Peshawar, dated 24th February 1913....The Jalkotis, as you are aware, are a Kohistan tribe occupying a valley on the Indus of the south-west of Chilas and west of Kaghan in the Hazara district.
www.palasvalley.org /pallashistory.htm   (1044 words)

  
  Geography of Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pakistan occupies a position of great geostrategic importance, bordered by Iran on the west, Afghanistan on the northwest, China on the northeast, India on the east, and the Arabian Sea to the south.
Pakistan is divided into three major geographic areas: the northern highlands; the Indus River plain, with two major subdivisions corresponding roughly to the provinces of Punjab and Sindh; and the Balochistan Plateau.
Pakistan is subject to frequent seismic disturbances because the tectonic plate under the Indian plate hits the plate under Eurasia as it continues to move northward and to push the Himalayas ever higher.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geography_of_Pakistan   (3987 words)

  
 Kohistan District (Pakistan) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kohistan is a sparsely populated district of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan and is also a region that stretches from the border with Azad Kashmir in the east to Afghanistan's Nuristan province in the west.
Kohistan's population is estimated to be over 2 million and is spread across the various towns and villages.
Kohistan is predominantly home to various Dardic peoples including the Shina, Kohistanis, Torwalis, Kashmiris, as well as Hindko-speaking Pathans in the central, northern, and eastern sections.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kohistan_District,_Pakistan   (420 words)

  
 North-West Frontier Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The north, comprising Chitral District, has a typically continental steppe climate similar to Afghanistan and Tajikistan, with average annual precipitation ranging from 100mm per year in the far north to 570 mm (23 inches) in Drosh in the south.
Dir and Hazara districts are some of the wettest places in Pakistan: annual rainfall at Dir averages 1,469 millimetres (58 inches), of which 400 millimetres falls during the summer monsoon from July to September and twice that amount during the winter rainy season from December to April.
Even within Pakistan it is regarded as a "radical state" due to the rise of Islamist parties to power in the province and purported support for the remnants of the Taliban who are believed by some to be hiding in the province.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North-West_Frontier_Province%2C_Pakistan   (3129 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Pakistan
Hazara Division, Mansehra and Abbotabad districts, Indus and Kaghan valleys and valleys of Indus tributaries, NWFP.
Eastern Kativiri is in the Chitral District; in Gobar in the Lutkuh Valley, Kunisht in the Rumbur Valley, Shekhanan Deh in the Bumboret Valley, and in the Urtsun Valley.
All Pashto in Pakistan are 13.2% of the population (1981 census).
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Pakn.html   (4028 words)

  
 Location of 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.palasvalley.org /pallas_index.htm   (619 words)

  
 International Religious Freedom Report 2002: Pakistan
Pakistan is an Islamic republic; Islam is the state religion.
Hindus and Sikhs, because of population shifts that occurred between India and Pakistan after partition, come under the auspices of the Evacuee Property Board, which is located in Lahore and is empowered to settle disputes regarding Hindu and Sikh property.
In the Malakand division and the Kohistan district of the NWFP, ordinances require that "all cases, suits, inquiries, matters, and proceedings in the courts shall be decided in accordance with Shari’a." These ordinances define Shari’a as the injunctions found in both the Koran and the Sunna (tradition) of the Prophet Mohammed.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/14026.htm   (9465 words)

  
 Razwal Product 1
Naran, Kaghan, Siran, and Allai lie in the east and south of Kohistan, Swat in the west while the valleys of Chilas, Darel and Tagir are located in the north of it.
Kohistan had the important political impact when the Wali of Swat stirred by the English, took over Duber in 1938, Pattan in January 1939 and Khandia and Sea in July 1939 and merged the western part of Kohistan into Swat state.
Sir George Roose-Keppel, Chief Commissioner of Peshawar, dated 24th February 1913....The Jalkotis, as you are aware, are a Kohistan tribe occupying a valley on the Indus of the south-west of Chilas and west of Kaghan in the Hazara district.
www.geocities.com /razwal/prod01.htm   (3258 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Pakistan
Primarily northeastern Pakistan: Baltistan District, Skardu, Rondu, Shigar, Khapalu, Kharmang, and Gultari valleys.
Hazara Division, Mansehra and Abbotabad districts, Indus and Kaghan valleys and valleys of Indus tributaries, NWFP.
Eastern Kativiri is in the Chitral District; in Gobar in the Lutkuh Valley, Kunisht in the Rumbur Valley, Shekhanan Deh in the Bumboret Valley, and in the Urtsun Valley.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Pakistan   (3292 words)

  
 RoCk SkuLLz :: View topic - UBL sighted in Pakistan!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
While ABC News reports Kumrat Valley is in the Kohistan district, The Pakistan Guide from Satellite and the NWFP website indicate Kumrat Valley is in the Dir District, which resides on the Afghan border.
The Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nurestan, and the Pakistani district of Bajaur border with Dir.
Pakistan's Bajaur district is the location of several Coalition and Pakistani air strikes, including the Predator drone attack on a meeting of al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, where Ayman al-Zawahiri was thought to be in attendance.
www.rockskullz.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4822   (421 words)

  
 Pakistan
Pakistan is a poor country with great extremes in the distribution of wealth; its population is approximately 140 million.
In the five districts of upper Sindh, landlords have defied the courts and police by holding tribal jirgas, which settle feuds, award fines, and even sentence persons to the death penalty in defiance of provincial laws.
The Sunni Muslim extremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan arranged prayer gatherings throughout the NWFP for SSP activist Haq Nawaz, who was executed on February 28, for the 1990 killing of the leader of the Iranian cultural center in Lahore.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/sa/8237.htm   (20463 words)

  
 1Up Travel : Pakistan Geography and Facts
Pakistan, officially Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is bounded on the north and northwest by Afghanistan, on the northeast by Jammu and Kashmir, on the east and southeast by India, on the south by the Arabian Sea, and on the west by Iran.
The capital of Pakistan is Islamabad, the largest city of the country is Karachi.
Pakistan has three seasons: winter (November-March) is warm and cooled by sea breezes on the coast; summer (April-July) has extreme temperatures and the monsoon season (July-September) has the highest rainfall on the hills.
www.1uptravel.com /geography/pakistan.html   (3828 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Gilgit
Gilgit is a region in the Northern Areas of Pakistan, bordering the Chinese region of Xinjiang.
One of the main cultural attractions of the region is the Shandur Polo Tournament played between the teams of Gilgit and Chitral on the Shandur pass.
The Dard, however, is unknown beyond the limits of the Kohistan district of the Indus valley to the south of the Hindu Koh, the rest of the inhabitants of the Indus valley belonging to Shin republics, or Chilas.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gilgit   (1651 words)

  
 Pakistan Facts - Nuclear Proliferation and Terrorism Secrets of a Rogue Nation
So retrograde are Pakistan's laws that there are more than 1,500 women in prison as a result of rapes -- they were prosecuted for adultery -- while arrests of men occur in only about 15 percent of reported cases.
Pakistan Weekly was the first web based weekly which challenged General Musharraf’s take over story bay calling it out right fabrication and a lie.
Our close ally President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan visited the United States last week and fretted aloud about a surprising problem: The "easiest way" for Pakistani women to make money is to get raped, he said, so they're lining up to be raped and thus making him look bad.
www.pakistan-facts.com /index.php?topic=editorial&page=6   (1338 words)

  
 Pakistan steps up rescue as rain casualties mount. 13/02/2005. ABC News Online
Pakistan has stepped up search and rescue operations for tens of thousands affected by flash floods after the heaviest rains in the country in two decades, in which close to 300 people have been killed.
In mountainous Kohistan district in northern Pakistan, four houses were crushed by an avalanche killing at least 16 people while as many were believed to be still missing, Rao Amin Hashim, deputy inspector general of police in the region, told Reuters.
Late on Saturday, four people were killed in a village in Abbottabad district, near Islamabad, due to a landslide and a roof collapsed on a group of women in a village in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) killing five of them immediately.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200502/s1301790.htm   (521 words)

  
 PAKISTAN ISLAMIC NETWORKS
Pakistan's top election official has said that imminent local elections will be annulled if candidates are found to have given bribes.
Chief Election Commissioner Dogar said that there had been reports that a candidate in Kohistan district of NWFP had promised his daughter's hand in marriage in return for his opponent's withdrawal from the election.
After Pakistan's nuclear weapon tests at Chagai, near the Afghan border in May,1998, my Pakistani sources claimed that one of the nuclear devices tested was of North Korean origin and that North Korean nuclear scientists were present during the testing.
www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /pakistan_islamic_networks.htm   (1738 words)

  
 Kohistan District, Pakistan information - Search.com
Kohistan is a sparsely populated district of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan and is also a region that stretches from the border with Azad Kashmir in the east to Afghanistan's Nuristan province in the west.
Kohistan's population is estimated to be over 2 million and is spread across the various towns and villages.
Kohistan is predominantly home to various Dardic peoples including the Shina, Kohistanis, Torwalis, Kashmiris, as well as Hindko-speaking Pathans in the central, northern, and eastern sections.
www.search.com /reference/Kohistan_District,_Pakistan   (417 words)

  
 Pakistan
On April 26, Ranjha Masih was sentenced to life in prison by the District and Sessions Court in Faisalabad, allegedly for damaging a Muslim signboard during a bishop's funeral in 1998.
Akbar is presently in Multan District Jail, and his appeal against the death sentence is still pending before the Bahawalpur Bench of the Lahore High Court.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) reported that on January 3, a 6-year-old Sikh girl was kidnapped by members of the Afridi tribe, in a remote tribal area of the Northwest Frontier Province.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2003/24473.htm   (11159 words)

  
 Human Rights Commission of Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The District Police Officer Thatta has since informed a delegation of journalists that he is unaware of the incident.
We believe a transition to democratic governance in Pakistan and the restoration of the right to people to choose their own representatives, can only aid this process and also help resolve the growing crises that the country faces on many fronts.
It urges the authorities in Pakistan to put in place similar compensatory measures, as a gesture of goodwill towards Indian prisoners, and as a step that should act to deter those involved in the illegal confinement of Indian or Pakistani nationals.
www.hrcp-web.org /P_releases.cfm   (3543 words)

  
 Pheasants of Pakistan (Western Horned Tragopan)
There are few exact dates of nesting for this species, but one nest of six eggs was found on 25 May in Hazara province (now a district of Pakistan), and another nest of three eggs was found on the ground, and was carelessly constructed of grass, small sticks, and a few feathers.
In Pakistan the birds occur in steep forested slopes in a transition zone between moist and dry temperate climatic zones, in dense forests.
In Pakistan, the species is apparently largely restricted to the area between the Jhelum and Kun-har Rivers, of the Hazara district.
www.wildlifeofpakistan.com /Western_Horned_Tragopan.htm   (2913 words)

  
 Pakistan - Be Pakistani "www.pakpk.com"
Its establishment was the culmination of the struggle by Muslims of the South-Asian subcontinent for a separate homeland of their own and its foundation was laid when Muhammad bin Qasim subdued Sindh in 711 A.D. as a reprisal against sea pirates that had taken refuge in Raja Dahir's kingdom.
The colorful, sometimes dazzling, art work on trucks, buses, tankers, and vehicles, which is found in a abundance in pakistan and hardly anywhere else in the world have fascinated and visitors from all over the world.
In the 1920's the kohistan bus company asked the local Michaelangelo, Ustad Elahi Buksh, a master craftsmen to decorate their buses to attract passengers.........
www.pakpk.com   (247 words)

  
 Pakistan Link Headlines
One billion and 350 million to Kohistan district to remove its backwardness because life and that district was miserable.
He assured that other districts kept backward in the developmental race in the past would get more of their share this time in the developmental strategy.
He assured that all districts would receive appropriate funding and there would be no shortage of resources for development and public welfare activities, he added.
www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/June04/15/03.html   (1124 words)

  
 Diameer District
Diameer is one of the hidden district of North Pakistan.
Diameer District mainly a tribal areas which is very furtile with respect to its beauty but restricted places can be visited.
It is first district of northern areas if you travel via KKH.
www15.brinkster.com /mairapakistan/Diameer.asp   (642 words)

  
 WWF Pakistan
WWF — Pakistan in its capacity has initiated a relief fund to redress people's woes that have been affected by earthquake in Muzaffarabad and its adjoining areas, as they have been declared the worst hit areas.
According to the latest update on the earthquake disaster in Kohistan District, it was learnt that this District was fortunate enough not to be hit as bad as other parts of the region.
Nausheen Malik's, WWF — Pakistan staff, sister-in-law and nephew and Omer Din's daughter were the earthquake victims and lost their lives in it.
www.wwfpak.org /earthquake_update1.php   (816 words)

  
 Pakistan
The largest group of Christians belongs to the Church of Pakistan, an umbrella Protestant group that is a member of the Anglican Communion; the second largest group belongs to the Roman Catholic Church.
In April 2003, the District and Sessions Court in Faisalabad sentenced Ranjha Masih to life in prison, allegedly for damaging a Muslim signboard during a bishop's funeral in 1998.
Akbar is presently in Multan District Jail, and his appeal of the death sentence still was pending before the Bahawalpur Bench of the Lahore High Court.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2004/35519.htm   (12681 words)

  
 literature
Rockcarvings and Inscriptions in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.
Sociolinguitic survy of northen Pakistan, Volume 2: Languagess of Northern Areass, by Peter C. Backstron and Carla F. Rodloff.
Revisited of Shina Language of Palas Kohistan” A re-examination of Shina phonology Published in ACTA Oreintalia, Denmark, V.49 (999): 106-149.
www.palasvalley.org /literature.htm   (363 words)

  
 Counterterrorism Blog: Fighting in Uruzgan; Osama bin Laden sighting in Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
While ABC News reports Kumrat Valley is in the Kohistan district, The Pakistan Guide from Satellite and the NWFP website indicate Kumrat Valley is in the Dir District, which resides on the Afghan border.
The Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nurestan, and the Pakistani district of Bajaur border with Dir.
Pakistan's Bajaur district is the location of several Coalition and Pakistani air strikes, including the Predator drone attack on a meeting of al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, where Ayman al-Zawahiri was thought to be in attendance.
counterterrorismblog.org /2006/05/fighting_in_uruzgan_osama_bin.php   (1791 words)

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