Shardadesh is a name for the drainage basin of the Kishanganga River.
Course , the source of the Kishanganga river, in the Himalayas to the north of the tourist resort town of
Sonamarg The Kishanganga River originates from
Krishansar lake in the vicinity of
Sonamarg, an area of Ganderbal district in the Indian-administered union territory of
Jammu and Kashmir, and runs northwards to Badoab village in
Tulail Valley where it meets a tributary from the
Dras side. It then runs westwards, parallel to the Line of Control. It is fed by many glacial tributary streams on its way. It enters the Pakistani-administered territory of
Azad Kashmir in the
Gurez sector of the Line of Control. Then it runs west again parallel to the Line of Control, passing by
Sharada. After Sharda, it bends to a southwesterly direction and runs along the Line of Control near Tithwal. Then it bends northwest again, making a wide arc to join the Jhelum River in Muzaffarabad. Recently, the Go Gurez campaign has been launched to make people aware of the area.
Valleys valley, with the pyramid-shaped
Habba Khatoon mountain in the background. The Kishanganga River is 245 kilometres long. It covers 50 kilometers in the Indian-administered Kashmir, where it flows through the Tulail Valley and then Gurez Valley. It covers the remaining 195 kilometres in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and flows through the
Neelam Valley. The Neelum Valley is a Himalayan gorge in the Kashmir region, along which the Neelum River flows. This green and fertile valley is 250km in length and stretches its way from Muzaffarabad to
Athmuqam and beyond to
Taobutt. It is one of the most attractive tourist places, like
Swat and
Chitral, but due to poor road infrastructure, it remains largely inaccessible to the outside world. This area was badly affected by the 2005 earthquake and was cut off from the outside world as the roads and paths were filled with rubble. Now construction of an international standard road is in progress. There are two entrances for Neelum valley, one Neelum Road by Muzaffarabad and the other by
Kaghan, the Jalkhad Road. Generally, Neelum valley starts just after Muzaffarabad, but in the political division, the area from Muzaffarabad to Chelhana is named
Kotla valley. District Neelum starts from Chelhana and goes up to Taobutt. ==Ecology Revival ==