HISTORY OF NAGAR NORTHERN AREAS PAKISTAN

NAGAR WAS FORMERLY A PRINCELY STATE AND MANY KINGS RULED THERE FOR 1200 YEARS.HUNZA ITSELF WAS UNDER THE DOMINATION OF NAGAR KINGDOM.HUNZA AND NAGAR COLLECTIVELY CALLED BUROSHALL.THE CAPITAL OF BUROSHALL WAS CAPAL DONGS.AFTER THE DEATH OF KING MIYOR KHAN HIS TWO SONS (MOGHLOT AND KIRKIS) USED TO QUARREL WITH EACH OTHERS AND DIVIDED BUROSHALL INTO TWO INDEPENDENT STATES NAGAR AND HUNZA.MOGHLOT RULED NAGAR AND KIRKIS RULED HUNZA.THE RIVER WAS DECLARED AS THE BORDER OF PRINCELY STATES NAGAR AND HUNZA.THE BRITISH FOUGHT A WAR IN THE NILT(A TOWN OF NAGAR)ON 1889 TILL 1892 TO CONTROL THE ADMINISTRATION OF NAGAR,THE WAR IS CALLED AS JANGEER-E-LAY.IN THE WAR NAGAR PEOPLE FOUGHT WELL BUT WAS DEFEATED DUE TO THEIR LACK OF WEAPONS AND COMMAND.THE RAJA(THAM in local language)AZUR KHAN WAS SENT TO KASHMIR TO HIS EXILE.THE BRITISH RETAINED NAGAR UNTIL THE PARTITION OF SUB CONTINENT IN 1947.IN PRINCELY STATE THOSE WHO HAD APPROACHES TO RAJA FAMILY LIVED RELISHING LIFE.BUT A LARGE NUMBER OF SUBJECT WERE PASSING THRROUGH AGGRESSION.ZULFIQAR ALI BHUTTO MADE PAKISTAN A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY SO THAT HE DISSOLVED PRINCELY STATES NAGAR AND HUNZA ON 25Sep 1974 AND RELEASED ALL PRISONERS MADE BY RAJA.NOW NAGAR HAS TWO TEHSILS NAGAR1 AND NAGAR2.
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REIGN MIRS OF NAGAR

Unknown dates Fadl Khan
Unknown dates Daud Khan
Unknown dates Ali Dad Khan (1st time)
Unknown dates Hari Tham Khan
Unknown dates Ali Dad Khan (2ND time)
Unknown dates Kamal Khan
Unknown dates Rahim Khan I
Unknown date 1839 Rahim Khan II
1839–1891 JafarZahid Khan (1st time)
1891–1892 Raja Azur Khan (acting)
1892–1904 Jafar Zahid Khan (2ND time)
1905 - 17 March 1940 Raja Mir Iskandar Khan
17 March 1940 - 25 September 1974 Shaukat Ali Khan
25 September 1974 State of Nagar dissolved by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
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ELECTED LEADERS AFTER 1975
1975 Syed Yahya Shah
1980 Mir Shaukat Ali Khan
1985- Qurban Ali
1997- Mir Shaukat Ali Khan-Nagar-1 Shiekh Ghulam Haider-Nagar-2,
2000 -Qurban Ali-Nagar-1, Shiekh Ghulam Haider-Nagar-2
2005 Mirza Hussain-Nagar-1,Muhammad Ali Akhtar-Nagar-2
2009 Mirza Hussain-Nagar-1 Muhammad Ali Akhtar-Nagar-2