Chitral

Chitral was a Hindu Kush mountain kingdom along the Chitral river and its high valleys, ruled by a mehtar. Tradition held that Shah Nadir Rais founded its Rais dynasty in 1320.

Islam spread with Chagatai power in the sixteenth century, as Mirza Haidar campaigned from Yarkand between 1520 and 1550. The Rais struggled with the Kator house around Mastuj and at Danin; the last Rais chief was driven into Badakhshan in 1775. After wars with his Khushwaqt kinsmen, Mohtaram Shah II Kator became supreme in 1833.