Sarikol

Sarikol, also known as Tashkurgan, lies in a high Pamir valley where routes from the Tarim Basin approach the mountains. In 1514 it came under the Yarkand Khanate, whose rulers appointed an akim beg to govern the district. The historian Mirza Haydar passed through the Tashkurgan region on his way to Kashmir in 1534.