Chakesar is a town and tehsil of the Shangla District in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
This suture zone is world-famous for hosting precious stone deposits of emeralds, rubies etc.
Most of the world magmatic arcs are the sources of gold and copper deposits, e.g. Pan African Nubian Shield.
Alexander the Great supposedly fought a battle against the locals there in 326 BC, at the historical mount Pir Sar (see Aornos).
Each sub-tribe or clan in these people carries whole or part of the name of their great-grandfather normally followed by Khel which means tribe.
Agriculture depends mainly upon rains and luckily Chakesar gets good annual precipitation including a rich monsoon season in July and August.
Chakesar was connected to the national grid and digital telephone network in late 1990s.
[3] The result yielded a total of 38 bird species belonging to 20 families under the orders Passeriformes, Columbiformes, Coraciiformes, and Accipitriformes.
Order Passeriformes, representing 34 species in 17 families, are Acridotheres tristis (L), A. fuscus (Wagler), Sturnia pagodarum (Gmelin), Passer domesticus, P. montanus (L), Pycnonotus leucogenys (L), P. cafer (Grey), and Hypsipetes leucocephalus (Gmelin).
Phylloscopus xanthoschist (Grey & Grey), Phylloscopus sp., Terpsiphone paradisi (L.), Motacilla cinerea (Tunstall), M. alba (L.), Oriolus kundoo (Sykes), Emberiza lathami (Grey),Phoenicurus fuliginous (Vigors), P. leucocephalus (Vigors), Copsychus saularis (L.), Eumyias thalassinus (Swainson), Saxicola maurus (Pallas), Saxicola caprata (Linnaeus), Hirundo rustica (L.), Cecropis daurica (Laxmann), Hirundo smithii (Leach), Dicrurus macrocercus (Vieillot), Corvus splendens (Vieillot), C. macrorhynchos (Wagler), Dendrocitta vagabunda (Latham), Parus cinereus (Vieillot), Lanius schach (L.), Chloris spinoides (Vigors), Prinia crinigera (Hodgson), and Lonchura punctulate (L.) Two species, Halcyon smyrnensis (L.) and Alcedo atthis (L.), represented the order Coraciiformes, while Spilopelia senegalensis (L.) and Gyps himalayensis (Hume) represented the orders Columbiformes and Accipitriformes, respectively.