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The World Bank is an international bank that lends money and other help  to developing nations for infrastructure.
The World Bank has the goal of reducing poverty.
The World Bank is part of the World Bank Group.
The World Bank is made up of only two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA).
The World Bank Group has these two, but also three more: International Finance Corporation (IFC), Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).
The World Bank is one of five institutions started as the Bretton Woods system in July 1944.
The International Monetary Fund is another one.
Many countries sent people to attend the Bretton Woods Conference.
The most powerful countries with people there were the United States and United Kingdom, which controlled most of the negotiations.
1945–1968
From the start until 1967 the bank did not lend as much money as it does now.
Careful screening of loan applications was common.
The bank wanted to provide loans for reconstruction and development, but if they lent out too much, there would be less trust in the bank.
Bank president John McCloy chose France to be the first country to receive a loan from the World Bank; Poland and Chile applied but did not receive one.
The loan was for $987 million, half the amount that France actually asked for.
There were very strict rules about the use of the funds.
Bank staff made sure that the French government would have a balanced budget and pay back what it owed to the World Bank first before it paid back other countries.
The United States State Department told the French government that the Cabinet should not have any communists.
To get the loan, the French government removed the Communist coalition government.
The loan to France was given very quickly after that.
The Marshall Plan of 1947 meant that many European countries already got help, so the World Bank began to lend to non-European countries.
Until 1968, loans were used mainly to pay for projects that would help the country pay it back (such projects as ports, highway systems, and power plants).
From 1968 to 1980 the bank worked mostly on meeting the basic needs of people in poor countries.
The amount of money being loaned out grew bigger, and more loans were given.
This was because the loans were not just given for infrastructure, but also for social services and other things.
These changes were made by Robert McNamara who became the president in 1968.
McNamara managed the Bank in the same way he had worked when he was United States Secretary of Defense and President of the Ford Motor Company.
McNamara changed the focus toward things such as building schools and hospitals, improving literacy and farming.
McNamara started a new system of gathering information from nations applying for loans.
This helped the bank to process loan applications much faster.
To give out more loans, McNamara told bank treasurer Eugene Rotberg to find new sources of money, because the northern banks that had lent out the money did not have enough.
Rotberg used the bond market to increase the amount of money that the bank could lend.
One result of lending so much to help poor countries was that the countries in the Third World started owing a lot more money.
From 1976 to 1980 developing world debt rose at an average of 20% a year.
1989–Present
From 1989 World Bank policy changed, because many people were complaining.
Environmental groups and NGOs were also lent money, to help fix the things that the people were complaining about.
Now bank projects include caring for the environment.
The World Bank's current focus is on meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
This means lending mainly to countries that are not very poor, at interest rates which are a little bit higher than the ones it borrows at.
The IDA provides low or no interest loans and grants to the poorest countries.
The Bank’s mission is to help developing countries to develop more and become less poor.
They will also meet the MDGs by helping countries to become good places for investment, jobs and sustainable growth.
This (it is postulated) will help the country's economic growth through investment and help the poor to share the results of economic growth.
Key Factors
Build capacity: Making governments stronger and more educated.
Infrastructure creation: Making laws to encourage business, and protect individual and property rights.
Development of Financial Systems: Starting strong systems that can lend and borrow in many different situations.
Combating corruption: Stopping corruption in governments.
Research, Consultancy and Training: helping students, academics and organisations who are interested do research into financial affairs.
Poverty reduction strategies
For the poorest developing countries in the world, the bank’s plans are based on poverty reduction strategies.
The World Bank looks very carefully at local groups of people, and the needs of the country, to develop a strategy that works best for that country.
The government then says what it will do to help stop poverty, and the World Bank works with it.
Forty-five countries gave US$25.1 billion in "aid for the world's poorest countries", aid that goes to the World Bank International Development Association (IDA) which distributes the money to eighty poorer countries.
While richer nations sometimes pay for their own aid projects, Robert B. Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, said when the gifts were announced on December 15, 2007, that World Bank money "is the core funding that the poorest developing countries rely on".
In 2012, Jim Yong Kim became President of the Bank.
He is responsible for chairing the meetings of the Boards of Directors and for running the Bank.
The Bank President has always been a US citizen chosen by the United States, the largest shareholder in the bank.
The person is then approved by the Board of Governors.
They are president for five years, and after that they might be chosen again.
The Executive Directors, represent the Bank's member countries.
They make up the Board of Directors and usually meet twice a week to approve and discuss loans and guarantees, new policies, the budget, ways to help countries and other important decisions.
Voting power
In 2010, voting powers at the World Bank were changed so that developing countries, especially China, have a bigger vote.
The countries with most voting power are now the United States (15.85%), Japan (6.84%), China (4.42%), Germany (4.00%), France (3.75%) and the United Kingdom (3.75%).
Under the changes, other countries that saw big gains included Brazil, India, South Korea and Mexico.
Most developed countries' voting power was reduced.
Russia's voting power was not changed.
The World Bank has been criticized by non-governmental organizations, such as Survival International, and academics, including its former Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz.
Critics say that the free market that the Bank supports is  to economic development if done badly, too quickly, in the wrong order or in weak economies.
In Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations (1996), Catherine Caufield argued that the way the World Bank works is bad for southern nations.
Caufield said that the World Bank focuses too much on "development".
To the World Bank, different nations all need the same "remedy of development".
She argued that to have even modest success, Western practices are used instead of traditional economic structures and values.
A second thing the World Bank thinks is that poor countries cannot become modern without money and advice from other countries.
One of the strongest criticisms of the World Bank is the way it was run.
While the World Bank represents 186 countries, it is run by a small number of powerful countries.
These countries choose who runs the World Bank, so what they want is what the bank does.
The World Bank is two different things: a political organization and a practical organization.
As a political organization, the World Bank does what donor and borrowing governments, private capital markets, and other international organizations want.
As a practical organization, it must be neutral, working mainly in development aid, technical assistance, and loans.
Because the World Bank has to do what donor countries and private capital markets want, it says poverty is best solved by "market" policies.
Many people think this is wrong.
In the 1990s, the World Bank and the IMF made the Washington Consensus.
Many now agree that the Washington Consensus looked too much at the growth of GDP, and not enough how long the growth lasted or whether growth was even good at all.
Some studies show that the World Bank has increased poverty and been bad for the environment, public health and cultural diversity.
Some critics also say that the World Bank has always supported Neoliberalism, forcing developing countries to follow rules which have been damaging.
People also say that the World Bank pushes U.S. or Western interests in certain parts of the world.
Even South American nations have established the Bank of the South in order to cut down on US influence there.
The fact that the President is always a citizen of the United States, nominated by the President of the United States makes some people unhappy.
The US has just over 16% of the shares in the bank; some people say this makes the voting unfair because they have too much power, as decisions only happen if the countries that support it have 85% of the bank's shares.
The World Bank also does not need to explain what it does to anyone.
A lot of the criticism has led to protesting.
The World Bank Oslo 2002 Protests, the October Rebellion, and the Battle of Seattle are among the protests that have happened.
Such demonstrations are held all over the world, even amongst the Brazilian Kayapo people.
In 2008, a World Bank report found that biofuels had driven food prices up 75%.
This was important news, but it was never published.
Officials said that they thought it because George W. Bush would be embarrassed.
Knowledge production
The World Bank has been criticised for the way it carries out “the production, accumulation, circulation and functioning” of knowledge.
The Bank’s production of knowledge has become important to explain why big loans are given out.
The Bank uses many scientists around the world, organisations and other people to help make data and strategies.”.
The information is created to stop people looking too closely at what the Bank does.
The only knowledge system that is used is the Western one, meaning that the systems that other countries used are put aside and the Western one forced in.
Knowledge production has become very useful for the Bank, which plans carefully how to use it to explain why they focus on development.
The effect of structural adjustment policies on poor countries has been one of the most important criticisms of the World Bank.
The oil crisis in the late 1970s made many countries have serious money issues.
The World Bank decided that it would help by giving out special loans called "structural adjustment loans", which meant the policies of the country had to be changed to reduce inflation.
Some of these policies included encouraging production and investment, changing exchange rates and changing the way government resources were used.
These were most effective in countries where these policies could be implemented easily.
For some countries, especially in Africa, inflation became worse.
Stopping poverty was not part of these loans, so the poor usually became poorer because the governments were told to spend less money and raise food prices.
By the late 1980s, people realised that structural adjustment policies were worsening life for the world’s poor.
The World Bank changed structural adjustment loans after that.
In 1999, the World Bank and the IMF introduced the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper to replace structural adjustment loans.
Some people say that the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper approach is just another way of using structural adjustment policies as it continues to do a lot of the same things.
Neither way has solved the problems of why some countries are so poor.
By making some countries owe others money, many believe that the World Bank has taken over those countries' power to choose how they run their economy.
Sovereign immunity
Despite the goals of “good governance and anti-corruption″ the World Bank needs sovereign immunity from countries it deals with.
Sovereign immunity means nothing the World Bank does can be punished.
Some people say sovereign immunity is a “shield which [The World Bank] wants resort to, for escaping accountability and security by the people.”
Because the United States has veto power, it is the only country that can stop the World Bank from doing things it doesn't like.
Environmental strategy
People say it has no real vision and purpose, and  a limited focus on only what it can do in global and regional governance.
People also say it ignores some specific issues in certain parts of the world, like.
issues of rights to food and land, and sustainable land use.
Critics have also seen that only 1% of the World Bank's lending goes to the environmental sector.
Environmentalists are asking the Bank to stop worldwide support for coal plants and other things that pollute the environment.
For instance, many people have criticized the 2010 decision of the World Bank's approval for a $3.75 billion loan to build the world’s 4th largest coal-fired power plant in South Africa.
The plant will increase coal mining, and cause more pollution.
Crayfish are crustaceans that are also known as crawdads, crawfish, and freshwater lobsters.
they are closely related to lobsters, crabs, and shrimp.
There are about 150 crayfish species in North America, and over 540 species worldwide.
The body of a decapod crustacean, such as a crab, lobster, or prawn (shrimp), is made up of twenty body segments.
They are grouped into two main body parts, the cephalothorax and the abdomen.
Each segment may have one pair of appendages.
In some groups these may be reduced or missing.
On average, crayfish grow to  in length, but some grow larger.
Walking legs have a small claw at the end.
Crayfish live in streams, rivers, swamps, ponds, and other freshwater habitats.
Most crayfish are strictly aquatic but some live in semi-aquatic environments.
The semi-aquatic crayfish burrow into the soil to get to water (so that they can breathe).
Crayfish are omnivores; they eat plants, animals, and decaying organisms.
They are nocturnal (most active at night) and eat fish, shrimp, water plants, worms, insects, snails, and plankton.
Larval crayfish are very tiny; they eat plankton.
Chappaquiddick is a place in Massachusetts, in the United States.
It became famous because of a fatal car accident involving Edward Kennedy in 1969.
Martha's Vineyard Vacation Tips
Chappy Ferry website
Chappaquiddick Wampanoag
Mytoi Gardens
Wasque Reservation
A variable star is a star that is sometimes brighter or dimmer.
Most stars have only very small differences in brightness, like the Sun.
But some stars can vary hugely.
A star being eclipsed, where the changes in brightness are from perspective, are called extrinsic variables.
For example, in a solar eclipse the moon gets between the sun and Earth.
Binary star systems sometimes show eclipses, as do planetary systems with giant planets.
Stars whose brightness actually changes are called intrinsic variables.
The stars get bigger and smaller over time.
Some pulsate at a constant rate, some do not.
All of them change the rate at which energy is put out, which changes their appearance to us.
Intrinsic variable stars
Intrinsic variable stars: variation caused by changes in the physical properties of the stars themselves.
Three subgroups:
Pulsating variables: stars whose radius expands and contracts as part of their natural evolutionary ageing processes.
Eruptive variables: stars who experience eruptions on their surfaces like flares or mass ejections.
Cataclysmic or explosive variables: stars which undergo a cataclysmic change, such as novae and supernovae.
Pulsating variables
Cepheids and Cepheid-like
Classical Cepheids include: Eta Aquilae, Zeta Geminorum, Beta Doradus, RT Aurigae, Polaris, and the namesake Delta Cephei.
The North Star (Polaris) is the closest classical Cepheid, but it has many peculiarities and its distance is not certain.
Type II Cepheids include: W Virginis and BL Herculis.
Dwarf Cepheids include: Delta Scuti, SX Phoenicis.
RR Lyrae variables.
Very common, used as absolute candles in globular clusters.
Long period and semi-regular
Typical of a class of stars with pulsation periods longer than 100 days.
They are red giant stars in the very late stages of stellar evolution.
They will expel their outer envelopes as planetary nebulae and become white dwarfs in a few million years.
Eruptive variables
Eruptive variables are caused by a star throwing something out, or sometimes by something falling in.
Protostars
Protostars are young objects that have not yet completed the process of contraction from a gas nebula to a true star.
Most protostars show irregular brightness variations.
Giants and Supergiants
Large stars lose their matter relatively easily.
Variability due to eruptions and mass loss is fairly common among giants and supergiants.
Cataclysmic or explosive stars
Supernovae are the most dramatic events in the universe.
A supernova can briefly emit as much energy as an entire galaxy, brightening by more than 20 magnitudes (over one hundred million times brighter).
Supernovae result from the death of an extremely massive star, many times heavier than the Sun.
The supernova explosion is caused by a white dwarf or a star core reaching a certain mass/density limit, the Chandrasekhar limit.
Then the star collapses in a fraction of a second.
This collapse "bounces" and causes the star to explode and emit an enormous amount of energy.
The outer layers of these stars are blown away at speeds of many thousands of kilometers an hour.
The expelled matter may form nebulae called supernova remnants.
A well-known example of such a nebula is the Crab Nebula, left over from a supernova that was observed in China and North America in 1054.
The core of the star or the white dwarf may either become a neutron star (generally a pulsar) or disintegrate completely in the explosion.
A supernova may also result from mass transfer onto a white dwarf from a star companion in a double star system.
The infalling matter pushes the white dwarf over the Chandrasekhar limit.
The absolute luminosity of this type of supernova can be calculated from its light curve, so these explosions can be used to fix the distance to other galaxies.
One of the most studied supernovae is SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Eclipsing variables
β Lyrae
W Ursae Majoris
Submission (movie), a movie directed by Theo van Gogh and written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Submission, a song from the 1977 album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
"Submission", a religion related to Islam practiced by the United Submitters International
Dominance & submission (BDSM), accepting of dominance in an alternative lifestyle context
Mail submission agent, electronic mail software
the act of yielding to some power or authority
Submission (combat sport), a term for yielding to an opponent
Submission wrestling, combat sports that focus on using submission holds
Submission hold, a type of grappling hold
Islam, the name of a religion meaning "submission" in Arabic
A proposal for a presentation at an academic conference
In biology and, a placatory response to an animal showing more Dominance (ethology)
An appendectomy or appendicectomy is when a doctor removes the vermiform appendix.
This is commonly done as a treatment for appendicitis.
Donald Campbell Dewar (21 August 1937 – 11 October 2000) was the first First Minister of Scotland from 1999 until his death in 2000.
He was the first person to hold the position of First Minister following the establishment of the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
In government
After the 1997 General Election, Dewar was in a position which John Smith (leader of the Labour Party, 1992-1994 and a good friend of Dewar) would never have thought possible.
He was able to start the process to split Scotland from the United Kingdom, and worked endlessly on creating the Scotland Act, popularly known as Smith's "unfinished business".
When ratified, this was to give Scotland its first Parliament for nearly 300 years.
The first elections to the Scottish Parliament were held on 6 May 1999, with Dewar leading the Scottish Labour Party against their main opponents, the SNP under Alex Salmond.
He was elected as the MSP for Glasgow Anniesland.
Although Scottish Labour won the most seats, they did not have a majority in Parliament to allow them to form an Executive without the help of a smaller party.
A deal was agreed with the Scottish Liberal Democrats to work together, with Dewar agreeing to their demand for the abolition of up-front tuition fees for university students.
On 13 May, Dewar was nominated as First Minister, and was officially appointed by the Queen on 17 May at a ceremony in the Palace of Holyroodhouse.
He later travelled to the Court of Session to be sworn in by the Lord President and receive the Great Seal of Scotland.
In April 2000, Dewar was admitted to hospital for tests on his heart, following a previous test where a minor irregularity was discovered.
In May 2000, he later had surgery to repair a leaking heart valve, and was forced to take a three month break from Parliament, with Deputy First Minister, Jim Wallace taking over as Acting First Minister.
He returned to work on 14 August 2000.
On 10 October 2000 around lunchtime, Dewar sustained a fall.
He seemed fine at first but later that day suffered a massive brain hemorrhage which was possibly triggered by the medication he was taking after the heart surgery.
Donald Dewar died the following day, at 12.18pm, in Edinburgh's Western General Hospital.
Dewar's funeral service was held at Glasgow Cathedral, amid scenes of mourning unknown for a politician in Scotland's largest city.
He was cremated on 18 October 2000, and his ashes were scattered at Lochgilphead.
Although he has become something of a political legend, Donald would have abhorred any attempt to turn him into some kind of secular saint.
He would have been horrified at a Diana-style out-pouring of synthetic grief at his untimely death. --
Iain MacWhirter, Sunday Herald, 15 October 2000.
First Ministers of Scotland
Scottish Parliament Members
Muhammad Ali Jinnah, considered Quaid-e-Azam ("Great Leader"), informed Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma: "when I am Governor-General the Prime Minister will do what I tell him to" -- however Jinnah's rapidly declining health made the issue moot.
The then Governor-General, Iskander Mirza, became Pakistan's first president.
Hunza Valley () is a mountainous valley near Gilgit in the The North Trails of Pakistan.
The Hunza valley is at an elevation of .
The territory of Hunza is about .
Karimabad (formerly called Baltit) is the main town which is also a very popular tourist destination in Pakistan because of the spectacular scenery of the surrounding mountains like Rakaposhi, Ultar Sar, Bojahagur Duanasir II, Ghenta Peak, Hunza Peak, Darmyani Peak, and Bublimating (Ladyfinger Peak), all  or higher.
Hunza is the northern most district of Pakistan.
The district touches the borders of China & Afghanistan.
Hunza valley is a combination of a number of smaller sub-valleys.
Most famous of these sub-valleys are Shimshal, Chipursan, Misgar and Avgarch valleys.
The main town of Hunza valley with all the government offices is the Aliabad and is located on main Karakoram Highway or N-35.
While Karimabad is a more established tourist attraction.
Hunza valley is located on the left banks of River Hunza while going north from Gilgit.
There are two parts of the valley.
Gojal; is the northern part
Hunza is the southern part
Tourist Attractions In Hunza
Altit Fort
Baltit Fort
Eagle’s Nest or Duikar
Lady Finger Peak
Ultar Peak
Aliabad
Karimabad
Altit Fort is the oldest fort in the hunza valley.
It was constructed some 1100 years ago and overlooks Hunza River.
The primary goal of constructing this fort was to keep an eye over invaders from Hunzo-bar or Nagar.
There was a great rivalry between the rulers and people of Hunza & Nagar in the older times.
Invaders from both valleys often attacked each others.
Altit Fort was built to defend the people of Hunza from them.
It was also the residence of the ruler of Hunza and his family.
It can also be seen from main Karakoram Highway or N-35 after crossing Ganish.
The fort can be accessed via a road from karimabad.
The entry ticket for Pakistanis is PKR 400 while for foreigners is PKR 1000 for the fort.
The fort offers views of the Royal Garden and a local musical school is also functioning within the premises.
There is also an amazing but expensive restaurant run by ladies within the premises of the fort.
Baltit Fort is an 800 years old fort within Karimabad town of Hunza district.
The fort was built for the protection of the ruler of Hunza and his family and also has a goal of deep defense.
The fort is built on the same architectural style as of the Altit Fort.
The fort can be accessed on foot from karimabad bazar.
It would take you around 20 mins to reach the fort from the bazar via a steep walkway.
The entry ticket fees is the same PKR 400 for Pakistanis and PKR 1000 for foreigners.
Personally speaking, Baltit Fort offers amazing views of the Hunza & Nagar districts from height.
Eagle’s Nest or Duikar is another great tourist attraction in the Hunza valley.
Official name of the area is Duikar while it has some natural stones in Eagle shape, hence it got the name of Eagle’s nest.
The attraction offers unique views of Golden Peak, Diran Peak, Rakaposhi Peak, Lady Finger Peak, Ultar Peak, Hunza & Nagar districts.
The attraction is located at an altitude of 3000 meters.
It can be accessed on a metaled road from Altit Fort.
It would take you around an hour on a vehicle to reach the attraction from Karimabad.
View during Sunrise and Sunset are just stunning from this point.
Aliabad is the main town of Hunza district.
All the major government administrative offices are located in this town including the offices of Deputy Commissioner & Senior Superintendent of Police etc.
The town offers unique views of Rakaposhi Peak, Golden Peak, Lady Finger Peak & Ultar II Peak.
A campus of Karakoram International University is also located in Aliabad.
Karimabad is the major tourist attraction of Hunza district.
The town located just above Aliabad.
There are two main routes to access the town, most famous of them is via a link road on Karakoram Highway between Aliaabad & Ganish while the other route is from the university road in the Aliabad Town.
The town is famous for Altit & Baltit Forts, Eagle’s Nest and the Lady Finger Peak.
Tourist Attractions In Gojal
Attabad Lake aka Shishkat Lake
Gulmit
Ghulkin
Passu Cathedral aka Passu Cones
Passu Glacier
Hussaini Suspension Bridge
Avgarch Valley
Misgar Valley
Shimshal Valley
Chipursan Valley
Sost
Pakistan China Border
While moving on Karakoram Highway or N-35, just after entering Gojal area, the first attraction would be Pakistan-China Friendship Tunnels or Attabad Tunnels.
These are four tunnels on the karakoram highway.
After a massive landsliding on Attabad villages, river hunza was stopped at this point, ultimately destructing attabad villages and part of Karakoram Highway.
This created a water reservoir, which is now known as Attabad Lake or Shishkat Lake.
Immediately after creation of this lake, the transportation was resumed via a boat service on this patch of Karakoram Highway between Pakistan & China.
The construction work on creating tunnels through the mountains was immediately started.
The tunnels were inaugurated in 2015.
The tunnels are one of the largest in Pakistan.
Attabad Lake is famous for its turquoise waters.
Private water sports and boating facilities are also active in the lake.
Gulmit village is the largest settlement in the Gojal area.
The village has very old history and was the summer seat of Hunza princely estate in the past.
The Ondra Fort is located in the Gulmit village.
The fort is believed to be constructed to protect Gulmit & Ghulkin villages from external invaders.
There are a number of treks in the village as well as a number of sky high peaks.
Ghulkin is another historical village in the gojal area.
Just after Gulmit on the banks of Batura Glacier lies this beautiful village.
Ghulkin is famous for amazing landscape as well as Pakistan’s first homestays.
Batura Glacier is the fifth largest glacier outside polar region.
The glacier is 35 KM long and covers an area of over 200 sq.
The glacier lies on the karakoram highway and thus can be witnessed from the highway.
Passu Cathedral aka Passu Cones are vistas from Passu Sar 7478 meters.
It offers one of the most enchanting views for the visitors.
The pinnacles are believed to be one of the most incredible natural wonders in the world.
It attracts a large pool of foreign tourists each year.
Passu Glacier is located on the south side of the passu village.
The glacier is connected with a number of other glaciers including Batura Glacier.
Patundas Meadow trek is one of the most epic treks in Gojal area and the trek is originated from Passu Glacier.
Hussaini Suspension Bridge connects Hussaini Village on the karakoram highway and Zoharabad village on the opposite side of Hunza River.
The suspension bridge is considered one the most iconic and dangerous bridges in the world.
Personally, I think Passu bridge is way more dangerous than this.
Borith lake
Borith lake is the Pakistan’s highest salt water lake.
The lake is located within the Borith village on karakoram highway.
The lake is easily accessible via a car track or you can hike to the lake.
Borith village is located just after Hussaini Village on Karakoram Highway.
You can also witness an amazing view of Passu Cathedral from the lake.
The lake is also famous for the migratory birds from central asia and siberia.
Shimshal
Shimshal is the highest permanent settlement in Pakistan.
Average altitude of the valley is around 3100 meters above sea level.
Shimshal can accessed through a four hours jeep ride from passu village.
The valley has four major settlements Central Shimshal, Aminabad, Farmanabad & Khizerabad.
Shimshal village is particularly famous for high altitude treks, passes and sky high peaks as well as for its world record holder mountaineers.
Samina Baig hails from central Shimshal is the first Pakistani female to summit Mount Everest as well as the one of the two Pakistanis to do the seven summits.
Other being her brother Mirza Ali Baig.
Chapursan Valley
Chapursan Valley is the northern most village of Pakistan.
The valley can be accessed through a non-metaled road from Sost.
Chipursan valleys is located on a drive of 40 mins from sost on this road.
The valley is famous has one of the oldest fort in the region, Rashit Fort.
The valley is also famous for the highest sufi shrine in Pakistan, Baba Ghundi’s shrine.
The shrine is a site of pilgrimage for followers from Pakistan, Afghanistan, China & central asian states.
Sost is the last permanent settlement on Karakoram Highway or N-35 before it enters China.
The village also has one of the biggest market of chinese products in Pakistan.
The sost dryport is a center point of all the import/export between Pakistan & China.
Khunjerab National Park is located on Karakoram Highway and is famous for the Pakistan China Border Crossing.
This border crossing is the highest working border crossing in the world.
The patch of the Karakoram Highway, passing through the national park is the highest paved road in the world.
It also offers world’s highest ATM just before the border crossing.
The Kaghan valley is a valley in the Mansehra District of Hazara Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
It has a reputation as a place of great natural beauty.
This valley also suffered from the earthquake disaster on 8 October 2005.
Lay out
The valley is approximately 160 kilometers long, starting from Balakot in the 'Lower Kaghan' to Babusar Pass at the extreme end of the 'Upper Kaghan'.
It is mostly surrounded by the forests and hills of the Lesvjzxbser Himalayas and the Kunhar River runs though most of its length.
The valley is mostly inhabited by semi-nomadic Gujars, and some Swatis, Awans and Syeds.
Background and main sights
Historically speaking, Kaghan was long a backward and neglected area, until the 1880s-1890s when officers of British India established a strategic supply line via the Babusar Pass to the northern areas of the Gilgit Agency.
After that, the area soon opened up to tourism and resort centers like Shogran and Naran Valley were developed in it.
The famous and lovely Saiful Muluk Lake is also a special feature of this valley as are some other lakes like Ansoo Lake, Dudupat Sar, Lulu Sar and the Lalazar Meadows.
Malika Parbat is a high peak in the area.
Between May and August each year, thousands of tourists from Pakistan and abroad dive up from Abbottabad and Mansehra, to visit these places in the valley.
For most of the rest of the year, Kaghan area is locked in by heavy snows.
Kunar Valley (), or Chitral Valley, is a valley in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Main geographic features are jungles and mountains.
Nagar Valley () is a valley near Gilgit Valley in Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan.
The Nagar Valley is at an elevation of 2,438m (7,999 feet).
Nagar Khas is the main town and the capital of the former state of Nagar.
The Spantik peak (Golden peak) can easily be seen from here.
Gulmet is the popular tourist attraction in Nagar because of the spectacular scenery of the surrounding mountains like Rakaposhi  at 7,788m (25,561), and Diran.
Nagar was formerly a princely state in the northernmost part of the Northern Areas of Pakistan, which existed until 1974.
Administratively there are two Tehsils in Nagar namely Nagar-1 and Nagar-2 of Gilgit District.
Nagar  was an independent principality for 1200 years.
The British gained control of Nagar during a battle at place of Nilt (Jangir-e-Laye) between 1889 and 1892.
Nagarkutch fought bravely but was defeated due to lack of weapons.
The Tham (Chief) of that time, Azur Khan, was sent in exile to Kashmir.
Hunza was previously under the domination of Nagar and collectively called Buroshall and their capital was Capal Dongs.
But after the reign of the Miyor Khan his sons divided Buroshall into Nagar and Hunza and declared the river as the border: Muglot became the king of Nagar and Kirkis became the king of Hunza.
The British retained Nagar's status as a principality until 1947.
The people of Nagar and Hunza were ruled by a local Mir for more than 1200 years, which came to an end in 1974.
Although never ruled directly by neighbouring Kashmir or the British, Nagar and Hunza were a vassal of Kashmir from the time of Maharaja Ranbir Singh of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Mirs of both sent an annual tribute to the Kashmir Durbar until 1947, and along with the ruler of Hunza, was considered to be among the most loyal vassals of the Maharaja of Kashmir.
The state is bordered by the Gilgit Agency to the southwest, China to the north and northeast and Afghanistan to the northwest.
The state capital was the town of Nagar Khas (also known as Uyum Nagar, which means "The Mighty Nagar Empire").
The first village of Nagar is Chalt Valley near Guroo, Janglote from Gilgit and the last village of Nagar is Hisper, Biafo Range that links Baltistan with the eastern range.
According to 2000 census figures 100,000 inhabitants are living in the Nagar Valley.
Now population is above 130000 inhabitants.
The languages spoken here are Brushashki, Shena and Bedishki.
The sixty percent of total population of Brusho belongs to Nagar.
Bedishki
Bedishki is a language spoken by a tribe Bedicho of Nagar.
Gujrati(Indian) like language.
It has only one hundred spokers.
It is spoken in Chalt(Capital of Nagar).It is the language of famous musicians of Nagar.
Late ustad Muhammad Ali was one of the famous musician of the Bedicho family.
Hadulia-Ibraheem, Ustad Sulaiman, Kak Mutalib and Mam Shukoor Ali are  the famous persons of the tribe.
Peaks and valleys
Rakaposhi and Diran are two of the mountains in Nagar-2.
Minapin is one of the beautiful place, while Rush Lake (High altitude Wetland), Golden Peak, Hopper Glacier, Hisper Glacier, Bowalter Glacier and Barpu white glaciers are in Nagar-1.
Askurdas is the centre of Nagar.
The climate of Nagar remains pleasant from mid-April to the end of September.
The maximum temperature in summer during the day is 13°C.
The weather becomes very cold during the winter, mainly from October to end of March.
The minimum temperature can be -14°C.
Anglo-Brusho war
The war between British army and the people of Nagar.
This war was fought in 1891 and had continued for months.
At last the British army had succeeded to gain control over Nagar and it became a vassal of Kashmir Durbar but ruled by the same royal family.
Although the British army was fighting with a small army it was a long war and the only war fought in Nagar.
For the British army, three soldiers were rewarded with the Victoria Cross and a mule was also rewarded with the medal for carrying a gun on its back.
Nagar was famous for its polo team.
It is the only team from the northern areas who played the polo match in New Delhi on the arrival of the George VI of England and won the trophy there.
Until 1972 it was the unbeatable team of the northern areas.
Modern Nagar
The people of modern Nagar are doctors, engineers,army officers, politicians, businessmen.
They are in every field of life in Pakistan.
The people of Nagar valley are very loving and hospitable to visitors.
Students of Nagar has an organization of their own.
This organization was regesterd in Karachi(A city of Pakistan) in 1969.The late deputy commissioner Daud Khan was first president of this organization.
The name of this organization is Nagar Students Federation.(NSF).This Students organization is still functional in Pakistan.
A tremendous change has been observed in the literacy rate of Nagar over the past 5 decades.
The state has not institution before 1950s.
Late Agha Ahmed Safa Faizi & late Raja Sahib khan were supposed to be first educated persons of the state.
Both started education in their own villages in Asqur Das and Chalt respectively after 1950s.
Now Nagar State has educational institutes in every village and towns.
100% of the children are going to school.
The people of Nagar have their literacy rate more than 90% in men.
While women have about 70%.
Rakaposhi Community Park
The whole area of Nagar along with Hunza is declared as a community park to prevent the hunting of many endangered animals such as Marco Polo sheep, brown bears, show tigers etc.
The NGOs which are working on the preservation of endangered animals are invited to come to this area because these animals are surviving for their existence.
List of Nagar kings
Muglot
Shamsheer
Sultan Khan
Fazal Khan
Duad Khan
Ali Dad
Khamal Khan
Rahim Khan
Barbarullah Khan
Habi Khan
Alif Khan
Zafar Zahid Khan
Mohammad Khan
Sikandar Khan
Soukat Ali Khan
Northern Areas
Leitner, G. W. (1893): Dardistan in 1866, 1886 and 1893: Being An Account of the History, Religions, Customs, Legends, Fables and Songs of Gilgit, Chilas, Kandia (Gabrial) Yasin, Chitral, Hunza, Nagyr and other parts of the Hindukush, as also a supplement to the second edition of The Hunza and Nagyr Handbook.
And An Epitome of Part III of the author’s “The Languages and Races of Dardistan.”
First Reprint 1978.
Manjusri Publishing House, New Delhi.
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Naran Valley () is in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
The Kunhar River, fed by glacier melt, flows through the Naran Valley.
Makra Peak, Malka Parbat,Babu Sar Top and Saiful Muluk are the main attractions.
The Rupal Valley is in the Astore District of Pakistan's Northern Areas.
It is south of Nanga Parbat.
It is popular for treks to the mountain's Rupal Face, one of highest mountain faces in the world.
The Skardu Valley is in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.
The valley is about 10km wide and 40km long.
It is where the River Shigar and River Indus come together.
It surrounded by the large Karakoram Range.
With the nearby lakes and mountains, it is an important tourist location in Pakistan.
The Yasin Valley is a high mountain valley in the Hindu Kush mountains, in the northwest region of Gilgit in the Northern Areas of Pakistan.
Yasin is separated from the Ishkoman Valley by a high mountain pass.
To reach Yasin one must take the Karakoram Highway north from Islamabad, and then turn left to reach Gupis in Ghizar.
Yasin valley has a spectacular natural beauty.
Yasin was originally ruled by the Khushwakhte Dynasty, a collateral line of the Katur Dynasty of Chitral.
The Rajas of Yasin were great warriors and fought against the Sikhs and the Dogras of Kashmir, but this house eventually lost power and the ownership of Yasin changed hands several times between  the rule of the Mehtar of Chitral, and the Maharaja of Kashmir.
British era
Although not highly or densely  populated, Yasin was of strategic importance because it leads to a high mountain pass, to Yarkhun in Chitral, and then to Broghol Pass, the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan, and into Tajikistan.
Thus, Yasin could have formed an invasion route from Czarist Russia into British India.
The primary language of Yasin Valley is the Burushaski language.
The Khowar language is also spoken.
The majority of the people in Yasin are Ismailies who lead their lives according to the Islamic principles more concerned with the imam of the time.
Currently Prince Karim Aga Khan is the Imam and spiritual leader of the Ismailies.
However, other sects of Islam like, Sunni, Shia also live in Yasin.
The Darkut Pass connects Yasin with Broghol pass and Chitral whilst the Thoi Pass connects Yasin to Yarkhun Chitral and Asumber pass connects Yasin to Ishkomen.
Darkot Pass is a historical pass which discriminately has been labelled as restricted zone by Government of Pakistan.
This pass used to be the shortest means of Communication between oxus and Indus ([www.yasinvalley.com]www.yasinvalley.com).
Local and Foreign Tourism love to trek along the Assumbur pass to Ishqamen valley.
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BBC Three was described by the BBC as a channel for 'New drama, talent, comedy, films, and accessible news'.
It ran from 19:00 to about 04:00 each night, in order to share terrestrial digital bandwidth with the CBBC channel.
Unlike its commercial rivals, 90% of BBC Three's output is from the United Kingdom and other European Union countries.
80% is original, covering all genres from current affairs, to drama, to comedy to animation, BBC Three returned to TV screens in February 2022.
BBC Three had a unique '60 second news' format.
This was adopted so that operation of the channel could be completely automated, without the complication of dealing with variable length live news broadcasts.
The current controller of the station is Danny Cohen, and the Head of Scheduling is Dan McGolpin.
BBC Three closed as a standard television channel on 16 February 2016.
On the same day BBC Three launched on BBC iPlayer as an online only service.
The BBC is planning to relaunch BBC Three's television channel in January 2022.
BBC Three was the successor to the similar BBC Choice channel and was launched on 9 February 2003.
It was launched by Stuart Murphy, who previously ran BBC Choice.
This channel will return on 1 February 2022.
Some of the programmes that have appeared for their first showing on BBC Three include EastEnders (2003), Little Britain (October 2004), Doctor Who Confidential (2005), and Torchwood (2006), The Apprentice, You're Fired! (
When the first episode of Torchwood was launched in October 2006 on BBC Three, 2.4 million people watched it.
This broke BBC Three's previous record of 1.8 million,.
The second episode attracted an equally impressive 2.3 million viewers, and boosted BBC Three to a 3.5% share of multichannel viewing that evening, compared to the network's three-month Sunday average of 0.9%.
The channel featured hourly news updates called 60 Seconds, which included the top news, sport and entertainment stories.
It was presented in a cheeky, relaxed style in keeping with the rest of the channel.
As part of the BBC's discussions with the government in whether the channel could launch originally, a longer news programme had been promised to provide a daily section of news and current affairs.
The News Show, as it came to be called upon launch was later rebranded The 7 O'Clock News.
However, the BBC discontinued the bulletin in 2005, claiming that in fact, the programme's audiences were minuscule and the output was provided elsewhere on the BBC.
Its share of the audience during its transmission hours was 2.6% among 25–34-year olds, and 1.7% among all individuals.
BARB, the official ratings agency, averages out BBC Three's viewing figures over 24 hours even though the channel only broadcasted in the evenings, giving a distorted sense of the channel's viewership.
Despite several official complaints from the BBC, BARB continued to publish figures which the BBC argued were unrepresentative.
Nine million people watched BBC Three every week.
The channel had critical and popular successes, winning more awards in its four-year history than its commercial rivals (Sky One, Living, E4, ITV2, Five and Paramount Comedy Channel) have won in their combined 25-year history.
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It is part of the Nerf series.
It was released on the Wii and Nintendo DS.
The game was released in North America on October 28, 2008.
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Emperor/Empress of India (Shahanshah-e-Hind in Hindustani) was used as a title by the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah II, and also by the colonial British monarchs during the British Raj in India.
Sometimes, the term "Emperor of India" is also used to refer to Indian emperors such as Ashoka the Great of the Maurya Dynasty and Emperor Akbar of the Mughal empire.
However, they did not claim this title for themselves.
Although the Mughal dynasty ruled over most of the Indian subcontinent from the 16th century onwards, they simply used the title Shahanshah (considered in the West to be the same as emperor).
However dring the Indian rebellion of 1857 against the British, the rebel sepoys seized Delhi and called the Mughal Bahadur Shah II as Shahanshah-e-Hind, or Emperor of India.
After the Brtish defeated the rebels, he was captured and was forced to live in Rangoon, Burma in 1858, this ended the rule of the Mughals.
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