Dara-I-Pech District (also known as Manogay District or Pech District) is located in western-central Kunar Province, Afghanistan, 30 km west of Asadabad. The population was 48,400 in 2006. The district is governed from Mano Gai. The governor is Mohammad Rahkman. While the bulk of the population is Safi Pashtun, who are mostly settled along the Pech River, the district also includes the Pashai-speaking Korengalis in the southern portion of the Korengal Valley. On 13 November 2003, an explosive device was detonated in a bus in the area, killing four people, two of them children.