Four hundred years back a Polo match was going on in between Sher and Strangers Chinese on whole Pamir as playing field. There were no spectators Sher was on the Yak against the stranger horses. He looked back to Shimshal if the Chinese drove the ball to Shuijerab he looses he will abandon all lands from Pamir to the Hunza and if he is able to drove the ball over the Shimshal Pass towards Shuwert, he will win title to all territory from Shimshal to Raskam. All the history was in his eyes .How his father Mamu Singh A Burusho from Baltit (Central Hunza) And a member of the wazir family was sent to Sarikol, Central Asia as ambassador, but on deteriorating relation ship with Hunza He fled Sarikol with his wife Khodija a Wakhi. They made Avgarch Pasture on the slopes of Qarun Pir as their home. He built up his flocks of sheep and goats after several years living their he migrated into the lower reaches of the Shimshal Valley. He was an elder man without children at that time but then came a saint (Holy man) Shams he gave the news of a Son to Mamu Singh they named the son Sher, he grew up as strong man and fine Hunter .On one of the hunting trip he wandered up a side valley in to the Pamir, where he met a group of stangers, who had with them a number of horses and small Yak. Both Sheer and the stranger claimed Pair as their own. Eventually they agreed to resolve the dispute with a Polo game, He was succeeded in driving the ball over Shimshal Pass and beyond Shuwert.Having won the territory Sher begun at once to explore it as far as Raskam.Half a year later, when his family had finally given up hope of his life he returned back and married a Wakhi woman from Sarikol who bore him several sons, the descendants of whom founded the three main lineage grouping as Shimshal; Gazikator, Bakhtikator and Baqikator. Late in the last century a missionary from Sarikol ventured in Hunza, and preached the Ismaili gospel to the ruler of Hunza who accepted the faith. Shimshali have been devout Ismailis since then. Shimshal is farming and herding community of some 1100 inhabitants, situated at the northeastern Hunza.

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