Shinkari

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Shinkari is an area in Kohistan of the Indus Valley in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan and [Pakistan]]

The Kohistan of the Indus Valley , which is also called Shinkari ,"the country of the Shins "by the people themselves is inhabited by what are apparently the remains of a number of tribes of cognate race , whose progenitors once inhabited the valleys skirting the Punjab , and possibly extended to the north and north west have been hitherto confounded under the name of Dards -a name which practically , has no real signification[1]

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Hindu Kush

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  1. ^ Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh by John Bidduph published by Sang-e-Meel -Publications Page 8