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DISTANCES AND STATUS OF ROADS AND PASSES IN YARKHUN/BROGHEL.

Report by QASADO Team.

 Name of villages (from and to)          Distances              Status/Condition                    Time.

 1.             Chitral to Booni                    87 km             Black topped 1996                  2 hours

                4000   -     5000                                       (truck able) All weather                      

2.             Booni to Mastuj                   33 km              Shingle 1976                          2 hours

                5000       6500                                        (truck able) All weather      

                   Black topping from Booni

                   to Mastuj and to Shandur

                   Pass is started in 2008.

3.             Mastuj to Brep                     30 km             Shingle 1985                          2 hours

                6500  -      7500                                      (jeep able) All weather

                  Blacktopping from Mastuj

                  to Brep is approved with

                  fund provided by

                  Provincial Government                                                                                                

4.             Brep to Darband                   42 km            Shingle 1987                          3 hours

                7500   -  9000                                          Jeep able All weather

5.             Darband to Yarkhun Lasht     30 km              Shingle 1990                          2 hours  

                9000 – 11000                                           Jeep able All weather

6.             Yarkhun Lasht to Kishmanja

       (Broghel starts here)            18 km           All weather jeepable                  1 hour

          11000    -    11500                                road constructed  by

                  Village Organizations

                  with financial support of

                  AKRSP Chitral in 2008

7.             Kishmanja-Broghel Pass     20 km                Pedestal                                 7 hours

        11500   -   12480                                                    

8.             Broghel Pass to Shikashum    100 km          Truckable                                3 hours

                                 12480   -    10000   

Shikashum Afghanistan and Shikashum Tajikistan are border villages located on either sides of  Oxus River called River Amu. Only 3 hours safe drive from Broghel Pass through safe Wakhan to

Shikashum before entering Tajikistan.

Safest link road can easily be built from Vadinkhot to Broghel Pass (20 km). No glacier, rocks, mountains on the way from Chitral to Broghel Pass.  Heavy snow can sometime stops traffic. 

Chitral-Yarkhun/Broghel Shikashum Highway can be used as safest alternate for China through Shandur Pass. Chitral-Yarkhun/Broghel Shikashum highway offers easy access to China via Shandur 

(Liaquat Ali)
QASADO Mastuj.