Shakardara District is situated in the central part of

Kabul Province Kabul (Persian: ), situated in the east of the country, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. The capital of the province is Kabul city, which is also Afghanistan's capital and largest city. The population of the Kabul Province is ...

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

. It has a population of 3,000 people, with another 10,000 expected to return from abroad (2002 official

UNHCR The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integrat ...

est.). Shakardara district borders

Parvan Province Parwan (Dari: ), also spelled Parvan, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 751,000. The province is multi-ethnic and mostly rural society. The province is divided into ten districts. The town of Imam Abu Hani ...

to the west, Guldara District to the north, Mir Bacha Kot, Deh Sabz and

Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

districts to the east, and

Paghman District Paghman District is in the western part of Kabul Province, Afghanistan. It has a population of over 120,000 people (2002 official UNHCR est.). Paghman district borders Wardak and Parwan provinces to the west, Shakardara District to the north, Ka ...

to the south. Its headquarters is the village of

Shakar Dara Shakar Dara is a village and the center of Shakardara District, Kabul Province, Afghanistan. It is located at at 2265 m altitude. See also *Kabul Province Kabul (Persian: ), situated in the east of the country, is one of the thirty-four ...

, which is located in the central part of the district. The agriculture is the main source of income. In December 2009, the district was declared close to ''"

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 ...

-free"'' by the Afghan Ministry of Counternarcotics. This result was rewarded by the ceremonial opening of a asphalt road, completed by the ministry, which will allow local farmers to transport their products to a market in a remote portion of Shakardara District (under the Karzai administration each time a province in Afghanistan reduces or eliminates its poppy crop, the inhabitants benefit from new roads, schools, irrigation systems, or farming equipment). In 2009, poppy cultivation in the whole Kabul province fell by 57%, and Kabul was said to be close to being named ''"poppy free"'' by the end of the year."Ministry of Counternarcotics Opens Road in Poppy-free Shakardara District through Good Performer's Initiative"
On 17 May 2010 Pamir Airways Flight 112 crashed on a mountainside in the district.

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AIMS District Map
Districts of Kabul Province {{Kabul-geo-stub