Kolai-Palas
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| Kolai-Palas | |
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| Kolai-Palas Kohistan, Kolai Pallas | |
| ActiveGrown here in 2000 or later | |
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| Growing Region | Kohistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) |
| Geography | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province/State | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| District | Kolai-Palas District |
| Coordinates | 35.02, 73.24 |
| Landscape | |
| Area | 980 km² |
| Terrain | The Kolai and Palas valleys, east of the Indus; approximately Kolai-Palas District |
| Growing history | |
| Documentation | |
| Appellations | 0 |
| Accessions | 0 |
| Conservation | |
| Populations | none documented yet |
Kolai-Palas is a landrace cannabis growing area in Kolai-Palas District, in the mountains east of the Indus in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Police destroyed cannabis cultivated at Bin Banda, in Palas, in September 2019, and on 80 kanals at Kolai in October 2025.[1][2]
The district
Kohistan is divided into three districts: Upper Kohistan, Lower Kohistan and Kolai-Palas Kohistan. The Indus splits it into a western and an eastern side; Jalkot, Palas and Kolai are the main valleys on the eastern side. The people of Jalkot, Palas and Kolai speak Shina, and a Bateri-speaking community lives in the villages of Batera Pain and Batera Bala on the east bank of the Indus.[3]
Reports of cultivation
In 1985 three officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, writing from intelligence reports, named the northern mountains and valleys of Kohistan, with Chitral, Dir, Swat and Hazara, among the places in Pakistan where cannabis was mainly cultivated.[4]: 44
In September 2019 the district police officer was told that people at Bin Banda had grown cannabis illegally, and the police of the Palas station destroyed the crop there; cases were registered against the growers.[1] In October 2025 the police of the Kolai station, with an agriculture department team, destroyed the cannabis crop cultivated on 80 kanals at Kolai and began raids to arrest the accused.[2]
Use
Amin and colleagues surveyed 20 villages in the Seo, Jalkot, Kandia, Kolai and Dubair valleys of Kohistan and listed Cannabis sativa, called bhang, among the wild plants used in medicine there: its leaves are made into a paste with maize flour and applied to the body for weakness and indigestion.[3]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "پالس پولیس نے بن بانڈہ میں بڑی مقدار میں کاشت کی گئی بھنگ کو تلف کر دی" [Palas police destroy cannabis cultivated in large quantity at Bin Banda]. UrduPoint (in اردو). Associated Press of Pakistan. 11 September 2019. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "کولئی پالس کوہستان میں 80 کنال پر کاشت بھنگ کی فصل تلف کر دی گئی" [Cannabis crop cultivated on 80 kanals destroyed in Kolai Palas Kohistan]. UrduPoint (in اردو). Associated Press of Pakistan. 14 October 2025. Retrieved 21 October 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Amin, Muhammad; Aziz, Muhammad Abdul; Manduzai, Ajmal Khan; Pieroni, Andrea; Alkahtani, Jawaher; AbdelGawwad, Mohamed Ragab; Gafforov, Yusufjon; Nazeer, Abdul; Abbasi, Arshad Mehmood (8 July 2024). "Standard medical ethnobotany of Kohistan, North Pakistan". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 20 (1) 64. doi:10.1186/s13002-024-00704-w.
- ↑ Stamler, R. T.; Fahlman, R. C.; Vigeant, H. (1985). "Illicit traffic and abuse of cannabis in Canada". Bulletin on Narcotics (4). United Nations: 37–49.