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01. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7_Who's Who in the Dir, Swat and Chitral Agency – Corrected up to 1st September 1933_. New Delhi: The Manager Government of India Press. 1933. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗02. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Syed Ziafat Ali. "Welcome To Dir State". Archived from the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗ Additional / archive link ↗03. 1 2 at the _Encyclopædia Britannica_
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗04. ↑Rose, Horace Arthur; Ibbetson, Denzil; Maclagan, Edward Douglas (1911). _A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province: A.-K, Volume 2_. Lahore: Printed by the superintendent, Government Printing, Punjab. p.11. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗05. 1 2Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dir". _Encyclopædia Britannica_. Vol.8 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. p.309.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗06. ↑Wilcox, Wayne Ayres (1963), _Pakistan: The Consolidation of a Nation_, Columbia University Press, p.82, ISBN 978-0-231-02589-8`{{citation}}`: ISBN / Date incompatibility ( help)
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗07. ↑Z. H. Zaidi, CHRONOLOGY OF ACCESSION OF STATES TO PAKISTAN in _Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah Papers: The States_ (Quaid-i-Azam Papers Project, 1993), p. xxxix, via archive.org.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗08. ↑_Jinnah Papers The states: Historical and Policy Perspectives and Accession to Pakistan_, First series volume VIII, Editor: Z.H.Zaidi, Quaid-i-Azam Papers Project, Government of Pakistan, 2003. Pg xvii.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗09. 1 2Maraini, Fosco (1965). _Where four worlds meet: Hindu Kush, 1959_. London: Hamish Hamilton.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessed10. ↑"Dir Royal Family\Akhun khel\: History".
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗11. ↑"Call for preservation of Sufi shrine in Dir". _Dawn_. Pakistan. 14 January 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
Listed by Wikipedia; underlying work not assessedSource / catalogue ↗12. ↑Roberto Breschi. "Dir". Retrieved 25 July 2013.. The site cites J. D. McMeekin, _Arms and Flags of the Indian Princely States_, 3, sec. 12, 1990.
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