MALAKAND TUNNEL| JABAN DARGAI |JABAN POWER STATION DARGAI

Today i visit Malakand District.the District was formed in 1970 as a Provincially Administered Tribal Area, It had previously been a tribal area known as the Malakand Protected Area, part of the Malakand Agency. From 1970 the district became part of Malakand Division.

Malakand District lies in a strategically important position as it acts as a gateway to Bajaur, Lower Dir, Swat and Bunair. It is surrounded by mountains that were overgrown with different kinds of trees in the past, though they have a barren look today. The Malakand Pass which connects Mardan to Swat and Dir is located near Dargai, a site where the local Pushtun tribes fought two fierce battles with the Imperial British Army in 1895 and 1897.

The Swat River flows through the district down towards Charsadda District where it falls into the Kabul River. Malakand District is bounded in the north by Lower Dir District, in the east by Swat District, in the south east and south west by Mardan and Charsadda districts respectively and in the west by Mohmand and Bajaur agencies. The area of Malakand protected area is 952 km2.

Jabban Hydropower Plant

Jabban (Malakand-I) Hydropower Plant (MHPP-I) is a small, low-head, run-of-the-river hydroelectric power generation station of 22 megawatt generation capacity (four units of 5.5 MW each), located at Jabban, Malakand District, KPK province of Pakistan on the flows of Swat River and about 210 km from Pakistan's Capital Islamabad, 45 km from the city of Mardan and 7 km upstream of 20 MW Dargai Hydropower Plant (Malakand-II). It is a small hydel power generating plant constructed and put in commercial operation in July 1938 generating Average Annual yield of 122 million units (GWh) of least expensive electricity.

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Helllo, I am GUL QADAR SHAH from swat Pakistan. I like to show you the beauty of Pakistan special the beauty of swat which is also called the Switzerland of Pakistan. In my youtube channel you can watch the inner beauty of swat and i will try to capture all the beauty in my camera to show the beauty.