Darel District
ضلع داریل | |
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District of Gilgit-Baltistan administered by Pakistan
[1] | |
Interactive map of Darel district | |
![]() A map showing Pakistani-administered
Gilgit-Baltistan (shaded in
sage green) in the disputed
Kashmir region
[1] | |
Coordinates: 35°33′40″N 73°35′38″E / 35.561°N 73.594°E | |
Administering country | Pakistan |
Territory | Gilgit-Baltistan |
Division | Diamer Division |
Headquarters | Darel |
Government | |
• Type | District Administration |
• Deputy Commissioner | N/A |
• District Police Officer | N/A |
• District Health Officer | N/A |
Languages | |
• Official language | Urdu |
Number of tehsils | 1 |
Darel District ( Urdu: ضلع داریل) is a district of Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan area in the disputed Kashmir region. [1] It is lies south-west of Gilgit District. [2] Its population lives mainly in the valley of the Darel River, a right tributary of the Indus River. [3]
Prior to 2019, the Darel District was a tehsil of the Diamer District, along with Tangir and Chilas.
The Darel District is bounded on the north by the Ghizer District, on the north-east by the Gilgit District, on the east and southeast by the Diamer District, and on the south and west by the Upper Kohistan District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province,
The situation between the two nations was complicated by the 1957–1959 uprising by Tibetans against Chinese rule. Refugees poured across the Indian border, and the Indian public was outraged. Any compromise with China on the border issue became impossible. Similarly, China was offended that India had given political asylum to the Dalai Lama when he fled across the border in March 1959. In late 1959, there were shots fired between border patrols operating along both the ill-defined McMahon Line and in the Aksai Chin.
Territorial Dispute: The situation along the Sino-Indian frontier continued to worsen. In late July (1959), an Indian reconnaissance patrol was blocked, "apprehended," and eventually expelled after three weeks in custody at the hands of a larger Chinese force near Khurnak Fort in Aksai Chin. ... Circumstances worsened further in October 1959, when a major class at Kongka Pass in eastern Ladakh led to nine dead and ten captured Indian border personnel, making it by far the most serious Sino-Indian class since India's independence.
Darel District
ضلع داریل | |
---|---|
District of Gilgit-Baltistan administered by Pakistan
[1] | |
Interactive map of Darel district | |
![]() A map showing Pakistani-administered
Gilgit-Baltistan (shaded in
sage green) in the disputed
Kashmir region
[1] | |
Coordinates: 35°33′40″N 73°35′38″E / 35.561°N 73.594°E | |
Administering country | Pakistan |
Territory | Gilgit-Baltistan |
Division | Diamer Division |
Headquarters | Darel |
Government | |
• Type | District Administration |
• Deputy Commissioner | N/A |
• District Police Officer | N/A |
• District Health Officer | N/A |
Languages | |
• Official language | Urdu |
Number of tehsils | 1 |
Darel District ( Urdu: ضلع داریل) is a district of Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan area in the disputed Kashmir region. [1] It is lies south-west of Gilgit District. [2] Its population lives mainly in the valley of the Darel River, a right tributary of the Indus River. [3]
Prior to 2019, the Darel District was a tehsil of the Diamer District, along with Tangir and Chilas.
The Darel District is bounded on the north by the Ghizer District, on the north-east by the Gilgit District, on the east and southeast by the Diamer District, and on the south and west by the Upper Kohistan District of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province,
The situation between the two nations was complicated by the 1957–1959 uprising by Tibetans against Chinese rule. Refugees poured across the Indian border, and the Indian public was outraged. Any compromise with China on the border issue became impossible. Similarly, China was offended that India had given political asylum to the Dalai Lama when he fled across the border in March 1959. In late 1959, there were shots fired between border patrols operating along both the ill-defined McMahon Line and in the Aksai Chin.
Territorial Dispute: The situation along the Sino-Indian frontier continued to worsen. In late July (1959), an Indian reconnaissance patrol was blocked, "apprehended," and eventually expelled after three weeks in custody at the hands of a larger Chinese force near Khurnak Fort in Aksai Chin. ... Circumstances worsened further in October 1959, when a major class at Kongka Pass in eastern Ladakh led to nine dead and ten captured Indian border personnel, making it by far the most serious Sino-Indian class since India's independence.