abstract:Upper Dir () is one the 24 districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. The district was formed in 1996, when Dir District was divided into Upper Dir and Lower Dir.
Residents in the province's UpperDirdistrict continued their assault on Taliban fighters with the support of the Pakistan military, a police official said Wednesday.
The militants began their raid on the town of Shaltalo in a remote, mountainous corner of UpperDirdistrict, near the border with Kunar province of Afghanistan, on Tuesday.