The Bashgal Valley is geographical feature of Nuristan Province, Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

, formed by the Bashgal River

Bashgal River

The Bashgal River is located within Nuristan Province, Afghanistan, flowing through Bashgal Valley. It empties into the Kunar river at Arundu and Chigar-Serai....

, which empties into the Kunar river

Kunar River

The Kunar River is about 480 km long, located in eastern Afghanistan and north-western Pakistan. The Kunar river system is fed from melting glaciers and snow of the Hindu Kush mountains....

 at Arundu

Arundu

Arundu is a Galbar village in Kunar Valley. In the past it was part of the princely state of Chitral.Arundu lies at the base of the Chogo Lungma Glacier, at an altitude of about 2900m....

 and Chigar-Serai.

History

During the period of British influence in the 19th century, the Bashgal Valley was considered part of Chitral state.

In the 1980s, Salafist cleric Mawlawi Afzal

Mawlawi Afzal

Mawlawi Mohammad Afzal was an Panjpiri-educated Afghan clergyman of the Kam tribe from Barg-i-Matal, Nuristan Province. He studied in Deoband, and later at Akora, Pakistan, before teaching at a madrassa in Karachi, and then in his native village of Badmuk.Following the Saur Revolution of 1978 in...

 founded the Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan

Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan

The Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan was a small Salafist state established in the 1980s, located in the north of Bashgal Valley, Nuristan Province.Founded by Mawlawi Afzal, the state established consulates in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan....

in Bashgal, which established consulates in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.