What is "dashkin"

Dashkin is a village in the district Astore, 85 km from Gilgit, capital of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

Dashkin is famous for certain rare species of wildlife, such as the Astor markhor (a species of ibex) and the snow leopard. The people of Dashkin are good at typical traditional sports like swimming, riding, hunting, kabdi, basra and rasa kashi. The village has many natural resources. The Dichil nallah of Dashkin has many gemstones and much natural beauty. The people of Dashkin has active political role in Gilgit-Baltistan since independence. The education trend in Dashkin is increasing rapidly day by day. There are very famous personalities from this small but very famous village; Dr. Talibullah Shah (late), SSP Amir Hamza (late), Advocate Siffat Khan (late), Inspector Muhammad Ibrahim (late) and Molana Adul Sami, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, Headmaster Barkat shah (Retd). Then new generation of this village is very talented, hard working and highly educated; such as Khalid Mahmood M.Phil from Quid-i-Azam University, Ph.D from ICCBS, Karachi University; Raza ullah M.Phil leading to Ph.D HEJ. Research Institute of Chemistry, ICCBS, University of Karachi.