The five districts of Swat: the valley of Swat is divided into five districts, viz: Baiza Ranrizai Khadakzai Abazai and Khwazozai. Of these Baizai and
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Amongst other reforms the Wali has abolished the Wesh or periodical redistribution of land except in the case of the rice-lands in the Swat valley, wh
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Before the Wali had consolidated his position every tribesman was armed and was under an obligation to turn out for his ruler or tribe in a time of em
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As far as I know, only one European has visited any part of this country on the ground, and that is Sir Aurel Stein, who identified the height of Pirs
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Buner I have viewed from the air and from the tops of the mountains that enclose it on the north and south. It is a wide open plain lying between the
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There are no large towns in Swat. The biggest centre of population is Mingora, where there is a bazaar which has recently been widened and rebuilt by
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The Swat valley is one of the beauty spots of northern India, rivaling even Kashmir. Fed from numerous sources amongst the snows of the Kohistan the S
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There was now only one direction in which further advance was possible; the north-east, where lies the wild and little-known Indus Kohistan. Here agai
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Having dealt with the west and the north the Miangul now turned his attention to the south. Across the mountains which bound the Swat valley in this d
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During his struggles with the Nawab of Dir, Gul Shahzada had frequently to face the opposition of recalcitrant Khans in the Swat valley itself, but by
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