Dardic languagesThe Dardic languages (also Dardu or Pisaca), also known as Hindu-Kush Indo-Aryan languages, is an areal group of several northwestern Indo-Aryan languages spoken in northern Pakistan, northwestern India and northeastern Afghanistan. Rather than close linguistic or ethnic relationships, the term Dardic is a geographical concept, denoting the northwesternmost group of Indo-Aryan languages. The region where Dardic languages are spoken has sometimes been referred to as Dardistan.
Indo-Aryan languagesThe Indo-Aryan languages (sometimes called Indic languages or Aryo-Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family. As of the early 21st century, there were 800 million speakers, primarily concentrated east of the Indus River in South Asia, spread across Eastern Pakistan, Northern India, southern Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Maldives.
ChitralChitral (Urdu: چترال, Khowar: ݯھیترار, romanized: ćhitrār, lit.'field') is a town situated on the Chitral River in the northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. It serves as the capital of the Lower Chitral District, and was previously the capital of Chitral District, and before that, the capital of Chitral state, which was dissolved and made an administrative unit of West Pakistan between 1969 and 1972.
Kho peopleThe Kho people (Khowar: کھو, romanized: Khō), also known as the Chitralis (Urdu: چترالی, romanized: Citrālī), are an Indo-Aryanethnic group native to northern Pakistan, specifically the Chitral region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the Ghizer region of Gilgit-Baltistan. They natively speak Khowar, an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Dardic group. HistoryThe Kho people likely migrated to their present location in Chitral from the south.
Chitral DistrictChitral District (Khowar: ݯھیترارو ضلع; Urdu: ضلع چترال) was a district in the Malakand Division of the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from 14 August 1947 to 2018. It was the northernmost and the largest district of the province, covering an area of 14,850 km2, before the district was split in two forming the new districts of Upper Chitral and Lower Chitral.
Swat DistrictToday part ofPakistan· Lower Swat & Upper Swat Districts of Khyber PakhtunkhwaSwat District (Pashto: سوات اولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع سوات) was an administrative district in the Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan from 1969 to 2025. The district was known for its natural sites and was a popular tourist destination. It had a population of 2,687,384 per the 2023 national census, and was the 15th-largest district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at the time.
Gupis-Yasin DistrictThe Gupis-Yasin District (Urdu: ضلع گوپیس یاسین) lies in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. It is the western most of the 14 districts in Gilgit-Baltistan. This district was established in 2019 by merging Gupis Tehsil and the Yasin Tehsil. These two western tehsils were originally part of the larger Ghizer District but were reorganized to create the Gupis-Yasin District as a separate administrative entity within Gilgit-Baltistan.
Endonym and exonymAn endonym or autonym is a common, self-chosen, native name of a group of people, an individual person of that group, a geographical place, a language or a dialect; it is 'native' in the sense that it is used inside or by a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their place of origin, or their language.
IslamabadIslamabad is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million; and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory — with a metropolitan population of over 2.3 million. Built as a planned city along the Margalla Hills in the 1960s and established in 1967, Islamabad replaced Karachi as Pakistan's national capital.
KarachiKarachi is the capital city of the Pakistani province of Sindh. It is the largest city in Pakistan and 11th largest in the world, with a population of over 20 million. Situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast, Karachi formerly served as the federal capital from 1947 to 1959.
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Ghizer DistrictGhizer District (Urdu: ضلع غذر) is a district of the Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan region in the disputed Kashmir region. Less than 13.5% of the district consists of alpine pastures, with over 83% of remaining area being barren or permanently snow covered.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.