Shibar District

Shibar District

The Shibar district (pop.: 27,000 in the year 2005) is located in the western end of the Bamyan Province in Afghanistan. It is in a mountainous region. The main village Shibar is at 2,637 m altitude on the all-seasons secondary road from Bamyan to Kabul through the Shibar pass.

The northern portion of the district, beginning near the village of Ghandak, is Tajik. Several Tajik villages can also be found along the road to the Hajigak Pass from Tupchi to Colo. Following the collapse of the Taliban, these villages faced harassment from a petty Hazara warlord nick named "Black Hat" who was based in the Tupchi area and occupied a check point and a ruined fortified city (the Red City) that had been destroyed by Genghis Khan. The balance of the population outside these Tajik villages is Hazara, however those Hazara villages on the east side of the Shibar pass are mostly Sunni.

External links

* [http://www.bamyan.info/files/shibar-district-profile.asp District profile] at Bamyan.info
* [http://www.aims.org.af/maps/district/bamyan/shibar.pdf AIMS District Map]


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