Dir (Pakistan)

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Dir (Urdu: دیر) is a town in Dir District, NWFP, Pakistan

Dir is administratively subdivided into Upper Dir and Lower Dir districts. Dir district is 5,280 square kilometres in area and part of the Malakand division, lying along the Afghanistan border between Chitral and Peshawar. Almost all of it lies in the valley of the Panjkora which rises high in the Hindu Kush at Lat. 35.45 and joins the Swat River near Chakdara, where the district is usually entered, at Lat. 34.40. Apart from the tehsils of Adenzai round Chakdara and Munda in the south-west, Dir is rugged and mountainous with peaks rising to 4877 m (16,000 feet) in the north-east and to 3048 m (10,000 ft.) along the watersheds with Swat to the east and Afghanistan to the west. The only motor road to Chitral reaches 3119.3 m (10,234 ft) at the Lowarai Pass. Timergara, however, the district headquarters, lies at only 823 m (2,700 ft.) twice the altitude of Peshawar but much lower than the traditional and eponymous capital of Dir at the foot of the Lowarai. Except for them and a number of rapidly growing bazaar towns along the main roads the population is rural, scattered in deep narrow valleys of the Panjkora and its tributaries. Of these the largest are Barawal, Usherai, Nihag, Karo and Toormang. 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 he administered by a single deputy Commissioner stationed at Timergara.

[edit] See also

• Upper Dir District
• Lower Dir District

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• Dir

The tribe of distt DIr (l)is MIR HASSAN KHAIL living over here from centries ..the nawabs of this tribes are NOOR KHAN(1855) NAR DULLA KHAN(1884) HASSAN KHAN (1915) AMIR BAZ KHAN (1960)(DIR became part of PAKISTAN. ,HASSAN KHAN

NOOR KHAN,MOHSIN KHAN,SALMAN KHAN,KAMRAN KHAN.(sons of Hassan Khan)