Damadola

Damadola is a Pakistani town in the Bajaur Agency, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. It possesses due to its proximity to Afghanistan a strategic location and is therefore repeatedly the scene of battles.

Damadola and its surroundings are dominant, rural character and threatened by natural disasters.

Location

Damadola is located about seven kilometers from the border with Afghanistan away. Peshawar is located approximately 100 kilometers to the south and the distance to Jalalabad is about 120 kilometers to the southwest.

Damadola is an average of 1,083 meters above sea level. The area is highly prone to earthquakes. Thus occurs on average every 50 years for an earthquake with a magnitude of more than seven on the Richter scale. The danger of flood is very high.

Weather

In Damadola it is with an average of 36.9 ° C at its warmest in June. The coldest month is January with an average of 0 ° C. at night In October, the sun shines on average the most. The climate is classified as a mediterranean ( mild with dry, hot summer).

Nature

The surroundings of Damadola little is cultivated and the vegetation largely intact.

Athar Abbas, spokesman for the Pakistani army, Damadola designated as strategically important because it connects Afghanistan with Chitral and the northwestern Swat Valley.

Outside of Damadola itself is a park used as a defense cave complex. The Pakistani army took 156 individual caves, which were used, according to the commander of the paramilitary Frontier Corps, Tariq Khan, to March 2011 by fighters of Tehrik -i - Taliban Pakistan ( TTP) and al - Qaeda.

History

On 13 January 2006 drones attacked the United States in Damadola to the assumed position of Ayman Al -Zawahiri. This was then the second in the chain of command of al - Qaeda. az- Zawahiri was not made ​​and instead in the attack 18 other people were killed.

Damadola between January and March 2010 during fighting between the Pakistani army and rebels of the Tehrik -i - Taliban Pakistan ( TTP) largely destroyed and conquered it by the army. According to Pakistani army When taking the caves were at least 75 insurgents were killed. In addition to including locals were also fighters from Egypt, Uzbekistan, Chechnya and Afghanistan. The village was the first time since 1947 under Pakistani control.