Kharphocho Fort
Skardu Fort, also known as Kharpocho, or "The King of Forts," is a fort located in Skardu, Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region. Greg Child, an Australian mountaineer and filmmaker, describes the fort as being "perched above the junction of the rivers" with a view of the Skardu Rock.
At the close of the sixteenth century, King Ali Sher Khan Anchan constructed the fort. In 1840, the Dogra general Zorawar Singh assaulted and destroyed it during his conquest of Baltistan.
Another fort was constructed by Zorawar Singh on level terrain close to the Kharpocho hill. The fort stood until the Gilgit Scouts, led by Lt. Col. Sher Jung Thapa, of the Jammu and Kashmir State Forces, besieged it during the First Kashmir War in 1947. Thapa ran out of provisions and eventually gave up.
The fort was partly rebuilt in 17th-century fort & mosque above a valley, famed for multiple past battles & sieges.
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