The Swat River is a perennial river in the northern region of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. The river's source is in the high glacial valleys of the Hindu Kush mountains, where it then flows into the Kalam Valley before forming the spine of the wider Swat Valley.
Swat River
Upper reaches of the Swat River in the Kalam Valley
The town of Bahrain, built along the river
The Hindu Kush is an 800-kilometre-long (500 mi) mountain range on the Iranian Plateau in Central and South Asia to the west of the Himalayas. It stretches from central and eastern Afghanistan into northwestern Pakistan and far southeastern Tajikistan. The range forms the western section of the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region (HKH); to the north, near its northeastern end, the Hindu Kush buttresses the Pamir Mountains near the point where the borders of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan meet, after which it runs southwest through Pakistan and into Afghanistan near their border.
The Hindu Kush mountains at the Afghanistan-Pakistan border
Noshaq is the second highest independent peak of the Hindu Kush Range after Tirich Mir.
Landscape of Afghanistan with a T-62 tank in the foreground
Aerial view of Hindu Kush mountains in northern Afghanistan
