Daggar ( ps, ډګر, ur, ) or Dagar is the capital of

Buner District Buner District ( ps, بونیر ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Before becoming a district in 1991, it was a tehsil within Swat District. History The Buner Valley lies bet ...

in the

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ps, خېبر پښتونخوا; Urdu, Hindko: خیبر پختونخوا) commonly abbreviated as KP or KPK, is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the northwestern region of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ...

province of

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. It is located at and has an average elevation of 688 metres (2260 feet). Daggar is also an administrative unit ( Union council) of

Taliban conflict

In April 2009

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from neighbouring areas entered the district following a peace deal with the government in

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, Taliban fighters took over government buildings and killed those who resisted. On 22 April 2009, the Taliban took over the town forcing the police to retreat to their stations while they looted aid agency offices. However, on 29 April 2009, the troops of

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were deployed in the town as part of an effort to drive out Taliban militants from Buner.

Lightning hotspots

It is one of the top 100 hotspots of

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according to the research published on '' ScienceMag.org''. The data obtained from

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between January 1998 and December 2013 showed that this area observed 143 flashes of lightning per km² per year.

References

Populated places in Buner District Union Councils of Buner District {{Buner-geo-stub