Palas, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Palas

پالس‬

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Palas Valley
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Palas
Coordinates: 35°36′N73°00′E / 35.6°N 73.00°E / 35.6; 73.00
Country Flag of Pakistan.svg  Pakistan
Province PK-NWFP.svg  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Population (2017) [1]
 • Total 275,461
Time zone PST (UTC+5)

Palas (Urdu : پالس‎) is a tehsil and valley in Kolai-Palas District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan.

A tehsil is an administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is an area of land with a city or town that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages. The terms in India have replaced earlier geographical terms, such as pargana, pergunnah and thannah.

Kolai-Pallas Kohistan District is a district in Hazara Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It was a sub division of Kohistan district of Hazara division till it was made a separate district in 2017.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly known as North-West Frontier Province, is one of the four administrative provinces of Pakistan, located in the northwestern region of the country along the international border with Afghanistan. It was previously known as the North-West Frontier Province until 2010 when the name was changed to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by the 18th Amendment to Pakistan's Constitution, and is known colloquially by various other names. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the third-largest province of Pakistan by the size of both population and economy, though it is geographically the smallest of four. Within Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa shares a border with Punjab, Balochistan, Azad Kashmir, Gilgit-Baltistan, and Islamabad. It is home to 17.9% of Pakistan's total population, with the majority of the province's inhabitants being Pashtuns. The province is the site of the ancient kingdom Gandhara, including the ruins of its capital Pushkalavati near modern-day Charsadda. Originally a stronghold of Buddhism, the history of the region was characterized by frequent invasions under various Empires due to its geographical proximity to the Khyber Pass.

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Fauna

Among the birds found here are western tragopans and Himalayan monals. [2] [3] Several surveys on other wildlife have also been compiled by experts including one on musk deer by Naeem Ashraf Raja. [4]

Western tragopan species of bird

The western tragopan or western horned tragopan is a medium-sized brightly plumed pheasant found along the Himalayas from north-eastern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northern Pakistan in the west to Uttarakhand within India to the east. The species is highly endangered and globally threatened.

Himalayan monal species of bird

The Himalayan monal, also known as the Impeyan monal and Impeyan pheasant, is a bird in the pheasant family, Phasianidae. It is the national bird of Nepal, where it is known as the danphe, and state bird of Uttarakhand, India, where it is known as the monal. It was also the state bird of Himachal Pradesh until 2007. The scientific name commemorates Lady Mary Impey, the wife of the British chief justice of Bengal Sir Elijah Impey.

Naeem Ashraf Raja Forester and bureaucrat

Naeem Ashraf Raja is the Director of biodiversity in the Federal Government of Pakistan. A fellow of LEAD Pakistan, Raja previously served as the Assistant Inspector General of Forests in the Ministry of Environment. Besides his environmental work with the government of Pakistan, Raja has also worked in the Palas valley with the Himalyan Jungle Project, the Chiltan Markhor Preservation Project, and has also done consultancy work with Pakistan Wildlife Foundation. Along with his work for the environment, Raja has also published his field research in several venues, presented his research at international conferences and also reviews environment-related submissions for Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies. Raja often opines on the dangers to Pakistani forests and biodiversity and recently was also one of the two Pakistani delegates in Geneva to have won a $3.8 million Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Readiness grant for Pakistan.

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References

  1. ↑ "DISTRICT AND TEHSIL LEVEL POPULATION SUMMARY WITH REGION BREAKUP: KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA" (PDF). Pakistan Bureau of Statistics. 2018-01-03. Retrieved 2018-04-20.
  2. ↑ Raja, Naeem Ashraf; P. Davidson; et al. (1999). "The birds of Palas, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan". Forktail. 15: 77–85. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
  3. ↑ http://www.wildlifeofpakistan.com/PakistanBirdClub/nwfptopsites.html Wildlife of Pakistan
  4. ↑ "HJP Reports" . Retrieved 25 August 2011.

Coordinates: 35°06′N73°00′E / 35.100°N 73.000°E / 35.100; 73.000

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