Alingar District is located approximately 27 km from Mehtarlam, the provincial capital of

Laghman Province Laghman (Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country. It has a population of about 502,148, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. Laghman hosts a large number of historical landmarks, m ...

and borders with Alishing and Dawlat Shah districts to the West, Nuristan Province to the North, Kunar and Nangarhar provinces to the East and Qarghayi and

Mihtarlam Mihtarlam ( fa, مهترلام, ps, مهترلام), also spelled Mehtar Lam, is the sixteenth-largest city of Afghanistan. It is the capital of Laghman Province and center of Mihtarlam District. It is the only large urban settlement in the p ...

districts to the South.It has about 60 villages located in four main valleys. The population is 85,600 (2006) - 70% of them

Pashtun Pashtuns (, , ; ps, پښتانه, ), also known as Pakhtuns or Pathans, are an Iranian ethnic group who are native to the geographic region of Pashtunistan in the present-day countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan. They were historically re ...

, 20% Pashai and 5% Tajik. The district center is the village of Shahi, located on at 915 m altitude. in the valley of the

Alingar River The Alingar River (also Alingâr) is a river in Laghman Province of eastern Afghanistan. It is one of the major tributaries of the Kabul River, part of the Indus River The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans-Himalaya ...

, which crosses the district and is the main source of irrigation. The security situation is reported to be relatively stable, although there are some private disputes. The district is reported free of mines. The main crops are

wheat Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain that is a worldwide staple food. The many species of wheat together make up the genus ''Triticum'' ; the most widely grown is common wheat (''T. aestivum''). The archaeologi ...

rice Rice is the seed of the grass species '' Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima'' (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera '' Zizania'' and '' Porteresia'', both wild and domesticat ...

, corn, vegetables. There are also fields with

poppy A poppy is a flowering plant in the subfamily Papaveroideae of the family Papaveraceae. Poppies are herbaceous plants, often grown for their colourful flowers. One species of poppy, '' Papaver somniferum'', is the source of the narcotic drug o ...

. The district is mountainous, hence there is little

arable land Arable land (from the la, arabilis, "able to be ploughed") is any land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.''Oxford English Dictionary'', "arable, ''adj''. and ''n.''" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2013. Alternatively, for th ...

. Some of the agricultural land has been destroyed by flooding. The main sources of income are farming, daily wage labour and remittances from abroad. It was reported that around 30% of the population work in agriculture, 20% work abroad in

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

and

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, 2% are government employees, 2% traders, and around 45% are without work. During the wars 80% of the houses were destroyed and many fled to

and now they are returning slowly. The health care and education sectors are relatively well, but improvement is needed especially in the distant villages. According to claims made by the Afghanistan liberation movement the district was liberated on March 21, 2023.https://twitter.com/NasserWaziri/status/1638265314394755081?s=20

References

External links

AIMS District Map2003 AIMS District Profile
Districts of Laghman Province {{Laghman-geo-stub