{"id":3014,"date":"2025-08-01T23:34:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/khowari.com\/?page_id=3014"},"modified":"2025-08-01T23:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T18:45:08","slug":"history-of-northern-areas-of-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/khowari.com\/?page_id=3014","title":{"rendered":"History of Northern Areas of Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Author: <strong>Ahmad Hasan Dani<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Publisher: National Institute of Historical and Cultural Research Islamabad, 1991<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ahmad Hasan Dani<\/strong> was a Pakistani intellectual, archaeologist, historian, and linguist. He is considered an authority on Central Asian and South Asian archaeology and history. He introduced archaeology as a discipline in higher education in Pakistan and Bangladesh. This magnificent book provides a summary of the history of the Northern Areas of Pakistan, including Chitral, from prehistory to modern times. 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