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Battagram District Battagram ( ps, بټګرام ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Abaseen Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The headquarter is Battagram, which is about 75-km from Mansehra. Overview and history The district of Battagra ...

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Battagram Tehsil Battagram Tehsil is an administrative subdivision (Tehsil) of the Battagram District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It serves as the Tehsil headquarters and covers a total area of 300 square miles (780 km2). Battagram Tehsil ...

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Chappargram or Chapargram (

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: چھپرګراﻣ) is a village of

in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of

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. It is part of Ajmera Union Council and lies within

and is located about four kilometres from the

district A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municipa ...

headquarters Battagram along the Shahrah-e-Resham (Karakoram Highway) or

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. Chappargram was one of the villages affected by the

2005 Kashmir earthquake The 2005 Kashmir earthquake occurred at on 8 October in Pakistani-administered Azad Kashmir. It was centred near the city of Muzaffarabad, and also affected nearby Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some areas of Indian-administered Jammu an ...

of October 8, 2005 when more than 100 people were killed and approximately 500 were injured. Many residents of the village were rendered homeless and without

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Image:A view of Chappargram.JPG, Chappargram, a village in the Battagram District. Image:A child of chappargram.JPG, A child from Chappargram. Image:A view of village chappargram from kandar.JPG, View of Chappargram from Kandar.

References

External links

BATTAGRAM-District Profile ERRA

"List of polling stations" – The Gazette of Pakistan"NRC PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE SITUATION REPORT – WEEK ENDING 5TH FEB 2006" – Norwegian Refugee CouncilWorld Bank Document
Populated places in Battagram District {{Battagram-geo-stub

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