Ishkoman
Ishkoman is a high mountain valley in the Hindu Kush and Karakoram in the northwest region of the Ghizer district in Pakistan . Ishkoman is connected to the Yasin valley and Chapursan valley in Gojal Hunzatal by a high mountain pass, the Ishkoman-Aghost pass.
The rule over the Ishkomantal changed several times in history. It was under the rule of the Mehtar (prince) of Chitral , the Maharajas of Kashmir or the Rajas of Punyal . Although sparsely populated, Ishkoman was important because the valley leads over a high mountain pass to Yarkhun in Chitral and further over the Broghol Pass into the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan . From there the route continues to Tajikistan . During British rule, they assumed that an invasion from Tsarist Russia to India could lead via Ishkoman.
The main villages in Ishkoman Valley are Chatorkhand, Pakora, Barjungle, Immit, Iskoman, Gunjabad, Bilhanz and Borth.
The main languages spoken in this valley are Khowar , Wakhi , Shina and Burushaski . Brushaski is mainly spoken in Barjungle, a place where most of the people in the valley live. Many inhabitants of the Hunza Valley who have left it also live in this valley. They speak Khowar as well as in the southern villages of the Ishkoman Valley and the Wakhi language is also spoken in Gojal Hunza, where the northern Ishkoman dialect occurs.