Siran Valley, is a little known valley, lying in Mansehra District

Mansehra District

Mansehra District is in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, an area still unofficially known as the Northwest Frontier. Mansehra district and town are named after Man Singh, a leading general of Mughal Emperor Akbar...

, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. Like the neighbouring areas, this Valley also suffered greatly from the earthquake which hit the region on 8 October 2005.

Name

The Valley gets it name from the River Siran which flows through it.

Shankyari

• Bogarmang
• Dadar
• Devli
• Giyar Sachan
• Jabbar
• Jabori
• Kodar Bala
• Kodar Paein
• Munda Gucha
• Old Bogarmang
• Panjul
• Sachan Kalan
• Sachan Khurd
• Sathian Gali
• kodar
• jacha
• Dahrial
• Sum elahimong
• Richmora
• Timmri
• Kund bangla
• SheedPani
• Dholgali
• Tipran
• Jhangi
• Kalas Nawaz Abad
• Sumang Kiasa
• Mail But
• Nulla etc:

Geography

The Siran river is originates from the Manda Gucha Glacier and merges into the Indus River. The Siran Valley has a lot of natural beauty. People of the valley are very calm and peaceful. Visitors and tourists are warmly welcomed here.

General Musharraf's visit

On 8 April 2006, General Pervez Musharraf became the first Pakistani Head of State to visit this Valley. His visit to the village of Kodar Bala commemorated six months since the 8th October earthquake. While there he inaugurated the village mosque and laid the foundations for the rebuilding of the primary school. He later addressed a gathering of locals before flying back to Islamabad.