Shagai (Pakistan)
Shagai is a region in Pakistan in a local administration of a Federally Administered Tribal Area and is located south of Mardan in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . The place is about 93 kilometers from Islamabad .
Shagai is also home to a fort ▼ which the British built in 1927 and overlooks the Khyber Pass . It was also the accommodation for the Khyber Rifles , a force of Pakistan's paramilitary border guards who are part of the Pakistani armed forces .
In 2002/2003 Ahmed Khadr and Abdul Hadi al Iraqi discussed actions in the Shagai area.
The prehistoric town of Taxila , the Buddhist monastery Takht-i-Bahi and the ruins of the city of Sahra-i-Bahlol are in the wider area .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Illustration of the fort
- ↑ Michelle Shephard: Guantanamo's Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr. John Wiley & Sons, New York 2008. ISBN 0470841176 .
- ↑ Information about Taxila
- ↑ Information about the Takht-i-Bahia Monastery and the city of Sahra-i-Bahlol