Palai is an administrative unit, known as Union council, of Malakand District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is renowned for its blood-red oranges due to the rich and well-drained soil found there.[1]

Palai
Union Council
Palai Location in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Show map of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Palai Location in Pakistan Show map of Pakistan
Coordinates: 34°30′49.6″N 72°04′48.4″E
Country	Pakistan
Province	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District	Malakand
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)

Palai is also said to be the birthplace of Pushto folktale characters Adam Khan and Durkhani.

Villages

Palai Dara includes the villages Ziarat, Zormadai, Sher Khana, Koza Bazdara, and Bara Bazdara.

Adam Khan was born in Bara Bazdara, while Durkhani hailed from Koza Bazdara. Palai Dara has produced several poets including Anwar Hussain, Khaliq Dad Omeed, and Asfandyar Zia.

Orchards

Palai and its surrounding villages in the Malakand district are famous for their fine-quality produce. This includes fruits such as peaches, guavas, and the Palai red blood oranges[2][3] amongst many other citrus fruits. The area is home to approximately 171,000 fruit-bearing trees; playing a vital role in the purification of the air and acting as a habitat to countless species of both flora and fauna.

Besides that, the orchards of the area attract tens of thousands of bees during the flowering season every year, serving as a homestead to the honey-making business. In the past few years, the area has observed an exponential increase in the number of trees and orchards, because of the government's arrangement of the water canal.

The construction of Swat Expressway (especially Palai Interchange) is supposed to take the area's agriculture and apiculture industries to a whole new level because, for the first time in history, the producers will get an opportunity to showcase their products in bigger markets; both nationally and internationally.

See also

• Malakand District

References

External links

• Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Government website section on Lower Dir
• United Nations
• Hajjinfo.org Uploads
• PBS paiman.jsi.com

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