Swat District is a district in the Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Centered upon the upper portions of the Swat River, Swat was a major center of early Buddhist thought as part of the Gandhara kingdom, and today is littered with ruins from that era. Swat was home to the last isolated pockets of Gandharan Buddhism, which lasted until the 10th century, well after most of the area had converted to Islam

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