Batkor is a small village located on the top a foothill near

Jalaalabad Jalalabad ( ur, ) is a small village of Gilgit District in Pakistan, located around 20 km east of Gilgit city. The village has a population of 5,000 households and approximately 40,000 residents. All of the inhabitants are Shia Muslims. T ...

, in Gilgit district of

Gilgit-Baltistan Gilgit-Baltistan (; ), formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative units of Pakistan, administrative territory, and constituting the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region which has ...

, in northern Pakistan. In the sectarian violence of 1988, Batkor village was also burnt down.

Places nearby

Bagrot Valley Bagrote Valley ( ur, وادی بگروٹ) is a valley in the Karakoram Mountain range in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of northern Pakistan. River Bagrote flows through the valley from the north towards the southwest of the valley, supplies water ...

Sectarian violence in Pakistan (1988) The 1988 Gilgit massacre refers to the state-sponsored mass killing of Shia civilians in the Gilgit District of Pakistan who revolted against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's Sunni Islamist regime, responsible for vehement persecution of r ...

References

Populated places in Gilgit District Villages in Pakistan {{GilgitBaltistan-geo-stub