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19-581: Khpal Kor (My Home) was established in October 1996 by Swat Scouts Open Group in Mingora , Swat District , in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The purpose was to accommodate orphan children who were vulnerable to child labor, child abuse , drug addiction , and other harmful activities. The orphanage started with five orphan children. This number increased over time. The Khpal Kor Foundation also extended support to

38-523: A mediterranean climate ( Csa ) under the Köppen climate classification because June only receives 31ml of rain, even though the rest of summer is quite wet . The average annual temperature in Mingora is 19.3 °C, while the annual precipitation averages 897  mm. November is the driest month with 22  mm of precipitation, while August, the wettest month, has an average precipitation of 134  mm. June

57-529: A local singer and dancer, was brutally shot and killed by the Taliban with her body being dumped in Mingora's main roundabout. In 2008, a suicide bomber killed about 40 people at a funeral. Most of the city's income comes from treads and tourism. The people of the uplands mostly pay attention to Mingora for buying and selling which includes Dir, Shangla , The Operation Rah-e-Raast in 2009 placed Mingora back into Pakistani control. Mingora technically features

76-577: A school, the KKF Tent Service, the KKF computer institute, a tailoring service, and the KKF auditorium have been established to generate funds. Khpal Kor Model School is one of the sister projects of Khpal Kor Foundation. It provides education to more than 1,900 children. The school provides education not just to orphans but also to poor students from the nearby community for a nominal fee. AkzoNobel and KidsRights support four educational projects as part of

95-456: Is the hottest month of the year with an average temperature of 29.2 °C. The coldest month January has an average temperature of 7.6 °C. Butkara Stupa The Butkara Stupa ( Pashto : بت کړه سټوپا) is an important Buddhist stupa near Mingora , in the area of Swat , Pakistan . It may have been built by the Mauryan emperor Ashoka , but it is generally dated slightly later to

114-536: The Butkara Stupa near Mingora revealed a large and imposing central stupa surrounded by more than 200 votive stupas which were discovered by Pakistani archeologist in the 20th century. Following the collapse of Buddhist rule, direct control of the area came under the Hindu Shahis . Their rule marked the ascent of Hinduism and Hindu polity in the region once again, after centuries of Buddhist rule and domination of

133-648: The International Children's Peace Prize . Khpal Foundation is one of them. Khpal Kor Foundation is a partner of UNICEF. Mingora Mingora ( Pashto : مینګورہ , Romanised: Minga Wara ) is a city in the Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Pakistan . Located on the Swat River , it is the 3rd largest city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the 26th largest in Pakistan . Mingora is the largest city and

152-518: The Mediterranean and West Asia . Many Buddhist remains and carvings have been discovered near Mingora in the Jambil River Valley. At Panr, a stupa and monastery dated to the 1st century CE has been excavated. In Mingora, Faxian claimed to have seen the biggest Buddhist monastery , and large carving of the foot-prints of Buddha carved on the sides of the ridges at Teerat. Excavations at

171-508: The Saidu Sharif airport, a site of Gandhara grave culture was discovered by Italian archaeologists and dated to 1000 BC. Buddhism arose in the region with the arrival of monks from the Gangetic plains. Under Emperor Ashoka , Buddhism became firmly established in the region, and the region became a launching ground for Ashoka's expansion of Buddhist missionaries to the western regions from

190-415: The 2nd century BCE. The stupa was enlarged on five occasions during the following centuries, every time by building over, and encapsulating, the previous structure. The stupa was excavated by an Italian mission (IsIOAO: Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente), led by archaeologist Domenico Faccenna from 1956, to clarify the various steps of the construction and enlargements. The mission established that

209-651: The Child Assembly, composed of 65 young members selected from various schools around the Swat District. Malala Yousafzai was the speaker of the Child Assembly in 2009 and 2010, receiving media attention for "confidently" chairing a session while still in 7th grade. Malala Day was also observed at Khpal Kor model school. The Khpal Kor Foundation is funded by endowments and by grants from non-governmental organizations including Qatar Charity , KidsRights , Heart Canada, and ISRA-UK, and by individual sponsors. In addition,

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228-704: The area. Their rule came to an end with the rise of the Islamic empire of Mahmud Ghazni . In 2007 during the rise of the Taliban insurgency , Mingora was invaded by the Taliban , largely impacting traditional culture in Mingora. A year later, the militant leader Fazlullah , then leader of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi , established a pirated FM channel in the nearby Mamdheri village, approximately five kilometers away from Mingora. Fazlullah subsequently became leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in Swat Valley , encompassing

247-499: The earliest, if not the earliest, known iconographical statues of the Buddha in northwestern India. Van Lohuizen-de Leeuw considers that the statue dates to the late 1st century BCE to the early 1st century, as it was discovered in the GSt 3 stratum that contained a coins of Azes II . More conservative estimates date it to the 1st-2nd century CE, roughly at the same time the first known statues of

266-448: The entirety of Mingora. The oppression of girls' education , Polio treatments , and freedom of expression became imminent throughout Mingora as a result, causing challenges for residents. Mingora's Green Square, once the hub of Mingora's social and cultural functions, became the execution grounds of Taliban opponents and dissidents , government officials, and civil workers, with corpses being hanged from electricity poles. Shabana ,

285-526: The epicenter of social, cultural, and economic activities in Malakand Division , and also the largest in the northern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The area around Mingora has long been inhabited. At Loe Banr , Butkara II and Matalai, Italian archaeologists unearthed 475 Indo-Aryan graves dated between 1520 and 170 BC and two horse skeletons. On the opposite side of the River Swat at Aligrama , near

304-551: The people affected by the 2005 Kashmir earthquake by providing admission to 50 orphaned students. During the 2007 and 2009 Military operations in Swat, a large number of children became orphans, and the Khpal Kor Foundation extended its services to them. The foundation is currently supporting over 200 orphan boys whose parents perished during the conflict in Swat. The foundation promotes various social activities. It established

323-635: The sculpture to earlier than 20 BCE. The nearby Hellenistic fortifications of Barikot are also thought to be contemporary. A large quantity of the artifacts are preserved in the National Museum of Oriental Art and the City Museum of Ancient Oriental Art in Turin (M.A.O.). The oldest core strata (GSt 1) revealed a coin of Chandragupta Maurya and is therefore dated to the Ashokan period. A coin of Menander I

342-500: The stupa was "monumentalized" by the addition of Hellenistic architectural decorations during the 2nd century BCE, suggesting a direct involvement of the Indo-Greeks , rulers of northwestern India during that period, in the development of Greco-Buddhist architecture . An Indo-Corinthian capital representing a Buddhist devotee within foliage has been found which had a reliquary and a coin of Azes II buried at its base, securely dating

361-477: Was found in the second oldest stratum (GSt 2). A coin of Azes II was found under a plinth of the third stratum (GSt 3), which is therefore dated to the end of the 1st century BCE or the beginning of the 1st century CE. The 4th stratum (GSt 4) contained late coins of Azes II and coins of the Kushan Kujula Kadphises . The in-situ seated Buddha (or Bodhisattva ) statue at Butkara is considered one of

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