Swat District is an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northern Pakistan, which formed when the former princely state of Swat was merged into Pakistan. The valley has a long history as a centre of Buddhism in ancient Gandhara, with rock carvings and monasteries, and was later ruled by the Wali of Swat, whose state was integrated in the late 1960s. Its mountains, rivers and orchards made it a popular tourist destination, sometimes called the Switzerland of the East. Between 2007 and 2009, Taliban militants took control of much of the area, until a military operation in 2009 restored government rule. Mingora, the largest city, was the home of the education campaigner Malala Yousafzai.
Before and after
- 2 September 1969Death of Ho Chi Minh
- 8 September 1969Birth of Mojtaba Khamenei
- 25 September 1969Founding of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
- 3 October 1969Construction of Fernsehturm Berlin
- 14 October 1969Swat District
- 16 October 1969Establishment of Doñana National Park
- 22 October 1969Discovery of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 29 October 1969The first message is sent over ARPANET
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