Lower Dir is an area in the Dir, North-West Frontier Province Pakistan. Dir is a town in Pakistan in the former Dir District. ... The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP)-is the smallest of the four provinces of Pakistan and is home to the Pashtuns (Afghans) and various other groups. ...

Dir is administratively subdivided into Upper Dir District 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 16,000 feet in the north-east and to 10,000 ft. along the watersheds with Swat to the east and Afghanistan to the west. The only motor road to Chitral reaches 10,234 ft at the Lowarai Pass. Timergara, however, the district headquarters, lies at only 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 more than 1200 villages over the plains of Adenzai and Munda and the 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. Dir is a town in Pakistan in the former Dir District. ... Upper Dir District is one of the districts in Dir, NWFP, Pakistan. ... Dir is a town in Pakistan in the former Dir District. ... // History Geography Climate Economy Civic administration Transport Utility services Demographics People and culture Media Education Sports External links Further reading References ... Chitral Valley and Tirich Mir, 7,708 m (25,289 ft) Chitral, or Chitrāl (Urdu: چترال), is the name of a town , , valley, river, district, and former princely state in the former Malakand Division of the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. ... Peshāwar (Urdu:پیشاور) is the provincial capital of Pakistans North-West Frontier Province. ... Panjkora river rises rises high in the Hindu Kush at Lat. ... The Hindu Kush or Hindukush (هندوکش in Persian) is a mountain range in Afghanistan as well as in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. ... Swat River flows from Karakorum Mountains to flows into Kabul River in Swat, Sarhad, Pakistan. ... Chakdara town is located in Malakand, NWFP, Pakistan. ... Special response teams are heavily armed and armored. ... Lowarai Pass is located between the Panjkora and Chitral valleys in North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. ... Timergara is located in Dir, NWFP, Pakistan. ... Adenzai has been assigned a special status as a unit of Dir (Tehsil) ever since the first Nawab. ... For the Hindu monster, see Munda (Hinduism), for Caesars battle see battle of Munda, and for the language family see Munda languages. ... Karo is also a town in Chad. ... Dir is a town in Pakistan in the former Dir District. ... Timergara is located in Dir, NWFP, Pakistan. ...

See also

• Dir
• Upper Dir District

Dir is a town in Pakistan in the former Dir District. ... Upper Dir District is one of the districts in Dir, NWFP, Pakistan. ...

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