Landi Kotal
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 Pakistan
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| Province : | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | ||
| Coordinates : |
34 ° 6 ' N , 71 ° 9' E
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| Height : | 1072 m | ||
| Time zone : |
PST ( UTC + 5 )
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Landi Kotal or Landikotal ( Urdu لنڈی کوتل) is a city in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan . Until 2018, it was in one of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, the Khyber Agency . The place is on the Chaiber Pass at an altitude of 1072 meters and is the highest point of this pass on the way to Peshawar . Landi Kotal is a destination that can be reached by rail on the Chaiber Pass railway line or by road from Pakistan and from the border with Afghanistan , which is 5 kilometers to the west.
Landi Kotal is the shopping center of the two Pashtun tribes , the Shinwari and Afridi , who live in western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan .
history
Landi Kotal is the westernmost part of the Chaiber Pass Mountains, which the British held during their rule over the Indian subcontinent.
In 1897 the Afridi attacked Landi Kotal and other border posts on the Khyber Pass. Although the border troops, the Khyber Rifles , resisted, Landi Kotal was overrun when the border troops ran out of water. The British counterattack with 34,500 men led by Sir William Lockhart defeated the Afridi.
The fortified fort of Landi Kotal was occupied by five British officers and 500 local officers and soldiers during the British rule . Before 1899, like all other border posts, it was a garrison of the Khyber Rifles , a paramilitary force that was recruited from the regional tribes in the Khyber Agency area . In 1925 the railway connection from Jamrud to Landi Kotal was opened by the Khyber Pass Railway .
On June 16, 2012, an explosive device exploded in Landi Kotal's market square, killing at least 29 people and injuring more than 65. Local authorities suspect a local tribal leader was the target. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) deny responsibility for the attack.
Web links
- Landi Kotal, Pakistan Page. fallingrain.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Landi Kotal
- ↑ Landi Kotal - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 134.
- ↑ a b Landi Kotal - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 16, p. 135.
- ↑ Khyber - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 15, p. 303
- ↑ Tirah - Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 23, p. 390
- ↑ Dozens of dead in attacks in Pakistan. In: The Standard . June 17, 2012, Retrieved June 19, 2012 .
