Alpuri ( ur, , ps, الپوری) is the capital of
Shangla District
Shangla District ( ps, شانګله ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The district's headquarter is located at Alpuri, while the largest city and commercial center is Besham. The district ...
in the
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
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province of
Pakistan
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. It is located at and has an average elevation of 1587 meters. The place has a government degree college and District headquarters hospital.
Education
Currently, there are currently two government colleges, which provide education at
intermediate level.
Climate
With a mild and generally warm and temperate climate, Alpuri features a
humid subtropical climate (''Cfa'') under the
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...
. The average temperature in Alpuri is 15.8 °C, while the annual precipitation averages 1040 mm. Even in the driest months, there is a lot of precipitation. November is the driest month with 25 mm of precipitation, while July, the wettest month, has an average precipitation of 155 mm.
July is the hottest month of the year with an average temperature of 25.4 °C. The coldest month January has an average temperature of 4.5 °C.
2007 fighting
On 13 November 2007 militants of the ''
Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM, ur, تحریک نفاذ شریعت محمدی, en, Movement for the Enforcement of Islamic Law) is a Salafi Islamic extremist militant group in Pakistan whose objective is to enforce Sharia law in th ...
'' ("Movement for the Enforcement of Sharia") from neighbouring
Swat were reported to have captured Alpuri district headquarters. This seems to have been part of a general push into Shangla District.
The local police fled without resisting the advancing militant force which, in addition to local militants, also included
Uzbek,
Tajik and
Chechen volunteers.
The militants vacated the town again on November 22/23, with government troops approaching. Fighting in
Matta and
Kabal areas of
Swat and parts of
Malakand continued, and the Alpuri area was by and large cut off from the outside. The militants' offensive was so unexpected that residents in Shangla were reporting food shortages, as they had no time to stock up on supplies.
References
Cities and towns in Shangla District
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