Damadola
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 Pakistan
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| Province : | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ||
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34 ° 48 ' N , 71 ° 28' E
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| Height : | 1083 m | ||
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PST ( UTC + 5 )
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Damadola is a Pakistani town in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan . Until 2018 she was part of the Bajaur Agency in the tribal areas under federal administration . Because of its proximity to Afghanistan, it has a strategically important location and is therefore repeatedly the scene of fighting.
Damadola and its surroundings are high up, rural and threatened by natural disasters.
location
Damadola is about seven kilometers from the border with Afghanistan. Peshawar is about 100 kilometers to the south and the distance to Jalalabad is about 120 kilometers to the southwest.
Damadola is an average of 1,083 meters above sea level. The area is very prone to earthquakes. An earthquake with a strength of more than seven on the Richter scale occurs on average every 50 years . The danger of a flood is also very high.
Weather
Damadola is warmest in June with an average of 36.9 ° C. The coldest month is January with an average of 0 ° C at night. The sun shines most often in October. The climate is classified as Mediterranean (mild with a dry, hot summer).
nature
The area around Damadola is poorly cultivated and the vegetation is largely intact.
military
Athar Abbas , spokesman for the Pakistani army, described Damadola as strategically important because it connects Afghanistan with Chitral and the northwestern Swat Valley .
Outside Damadola there is a cave complex used as a defense system. The Pakistani army found 156 individual caves which, according to the commander of the paramilitary Frontier Corps , Tariq Khan , were used by fighters of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and al-Qaida until March 2011 .
history
On January 13, 2006, United States drones attacked the suspected location of Aiman az-Zawahiri in Damadola . At the time, he was the second in al-Qaeda’s chain of command. However, Az-Zawahiri was not hit, instead 18 other people were killed in the attack.
Damadola was largely destroyed and captured by the army between January and March 2010 during fighting between the Pakistani army and insurgents of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). According to the Pakistani army, at least 75 insurgents were killed when the caves were taken. In addition to locals, there were also fighters from Egypt , Uzbekistan , Chechnya and Afghanistan. The village was again under Pakistani control for the first time since 1947.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Damadola (populated place). (No longer available online.) In: chinci.com. Archived from the original on January 20, 2015 ; accessed on February 20, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Pakistan's Bajaur tribe demands help as army declares victory over Taliban. In: sina.com. March 3, 2010, accessed February 20, 2012 .
- ↑ Beate Seel: The Lieutenant von bin Laden. In: The daily newspaper . May 4, 2011, Retrieved May 5, 2011 .
- ^ Pakistan fury as CIA airstrike on village kills 18. In: The Daily Telegraph . January 15, 2006, accessed May 5, 2011 .
- ^ Maqbool Malik: Troops seize Damadola for first time. (No longer available online.) In: The Nation . March 3, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 20, 2012 (English). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
