Daggar (, ) or Dagar is the capital of

Buner District Buner District (, ) is a district in the Malakand Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Before receiving the status of a district in 1991, it was a tehsil within Swat District. Buner's elevation starts at 1200 ft in the S ...

in the

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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 (

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) 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