Kotkay or Kotkai is a small village near Aloch

Aloch

Aloch is a town in Shangla District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa included in Puran tehsil. Aloch is a commercial place for business community. Union Council Aloch is the largest Union Council of Tehsil Puran both on area and population basis. Aloch and Nimkalay comparatively have more facilities than the...

 in the Shangla District

Shangla District

Shangla District ' is located in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.The district headquarters are located at Alpuri. It was previously a subdivision of Swat District, but was upgraded to the status of a district on July 10, 1995 by the then Chief Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao. The total...

 of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. Originally the villages of Kotkay and Nimkalay

Nimkalay

Nimkalay is a town of Puran Tehsil in Shangla District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. It is the main bazaar of Puran and a commercial place for the business community. Nimkalay is a part of the Aloch Union Council of Puran Tehsil, located at 34°43'60N 72°40'60E and lies in the area...

 were a single area referred to as Aloch-1, then it was divided into two villages.

Geography

Many streams are present in Kotkay, with water flowing from the higher mountains. The stream called Jingaro Chena is famous for its cold water.

There are two other areas of Kotkay, known as Garang and Colony. They both link the village to higher areas known as Bunerwalo. Colony and central Kotkay are separated by a stream which is highly flooded during rains. The Pakistani army built a bridge there which is also very beautiful.

Religious edifices

There are four mosque

Mosque

A mosque is a place of worship for followers of Islam. The word is likely to have entered the English language through French , from Portuguese , from Spanish , and from Berber , ultimately originating in — . The Arabic word masjid literally means a place of prostration...

s in this small village. The main mosque of Kotkay is in the village center, and there are three others in the areas know;n as Chargay, Garang and Colony.
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Education

The main mosque of Kotkay has a madrassa where children receive religious education. There are two other schools in the village: a school for girls in the center of the village, and a partially co-educational school across the road. Boys and girls are mixed only in primary school.

Village life

Kotkay is small enough that almost everyone in the village knows everyone else. Only 5% of people in this village live below the poverty line. But they never go to sleep hungry.