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Dir is a region in northwestern Pakistan in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the foothills of the Himalayas.Before the independence of Pakistan, Dir was a princely state, and it remained so until 1969 when it was abolished by a presidential declaration, [1] and the Dir District was created the following year.
Districts have formed an integral part of civil administration in the subcontinent since colonial times. When the North-West Frontier Province (the former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) formed in November 1901, it was divided into five "settled districts": Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara, Kohat, and Peshawar, and a "trans-border tract" of land which encompassed five "Political Agencies": Khyber ...
5.4 Lower Dir District. 5.5 Malakand District. 5.6 Shangla District. 5.7 Swat District. 5.8 Upper Chitral District. 5.9 Upper Dir District. 6 Mardan Division.
The city of Dir is its district headquarter. Geographically, it is located in the northern part of Pakistan. It borders with the Chitral district on the north, Afghanistan on the northwest, the Swat district on the east, and the Lower Dir district on the south. It shares 40 to 50 kilometers border with Afghanistan.
Dir (Urdu, Pashto: دیر) is a city in the Upper Dir District of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is sometimes known as Dir Khas (Proper Dir) to distinguish it from the district's name, Dir (Upper and Lower). [citation needed] It lies along the Dir River, a tributary of the Panjkora River. [1]
Central Dir District is a district in the Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. On 23 January 2022, the Provincial Government carved out a new district Central Dir from the Upper Dir district territory.
Wari (Urdu: واڑی تحصیل) is a tehsil of Central Dir District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It used to be a tehsil of Upper Dir District until 22 January 2023, when the KP Government established a new district Central Dir and Wari tehsil shifted to the newly established district.
Lower Dir District Tehsils have 37 Union Councils. The population is 797,852 according to the 1998 census report. The population is 797,852 according to the 1998 census report. The projected population of Dir Lower was 1,037,091 in 2005 with the same growth between the 1981 and 1998 census i.e. 3.42% per annum.