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Upper Dir District

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Country
  
Headquarters
  
Number of Tehsils
  
6

Area
  
3,699 km²

Population
  
899,000 (2014)

Province
  
Established
  
1996

Time zone
  
PST (UTC+5)

Main language
  
Pashto (92.5%)

Founded
  
1996

Local time
  
Sunday 10:16 PM

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Weather
  
13°C, Wind N at 13 km/h, 53% Humidity

University
  
Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal

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Upper Dir (Pashto: دیر بالا‎) is one of the 26 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Official website of Upper Dir is www.upperdir.com or www.upperdir.pk. At the time of independence, Dir was a princely state ruled by Nawab Shah Jehan Khan. It was merged with Pakistan in 1969 and later on declared as a district in 1970. In 1996, it was bifurcated into Upper and Lower Dir districts. This district is situated in the northern part of Pakistan. It borders Chitral district and Afghanistan on the north and north west and Swat district to the east, and on the south by Lower Dir District.

Contents

Map of Upper Dir, Pakistan

Beautiful kumrat valley in upper dir report by sherin zada


Towns

Except for Dir and a number of rapidly growing bazaar towns along the main roads, the population is rural, scattered in more than 1200 villages in the deep narrow valleys of the Panjkora and its tributaries.

Of these, notable villages are

  • Khas Dir
  • Doog Dara
  • Barawal
  • Gandigar
  • Toormang
  • Darorra
  • Ganori
  • Shalkani
  • Bibyawar
  • Wari
  • Sundry Upper Dir
  • Division of Dir

    Dir district was officially split into Upper Dir and Lower Dir in 1996. Until 2000 as funds were not available to provide the accommodation needed at Dir town by government departments at a district headquarters, both districts continued to be administered by a single deputy Commissioner stationed at Timergara in Lower Dir.

    Popular places

  • Doog Dara
  • Kumrat Valley
  • Bibyawar, Malakabad
  • Ushirai Dara
  • Shahi Koto
  • Nehag Dara
  • Barawal
  • Ganori
  • Gandigar
  • Nowra
  • Lowari Top
  • Seratai
  • References

    Upper Dir District Wikipedia


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