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Kurram was a stronghold of the TTP till 2008 when the Pakistani Army ordered a military operation in the Agency to flush out the militants. The military offensives Operation Khwakh Ba De Sham and Operation Koh-e-Safaid , ended in 2011 with the Lower and Upper Subdivisions of the agency falling back into the Pakistani control.
Districts have formed an integral part of civil administration in the subcontinent since colonial times. When the North-West Frontier Province (the former name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) formed in November 1901, it was divided into five "settled districts": Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, Hazara, Kohat, and Peshawar, and a "trans-border tract" of land which encompassed five "Political Agencies": Khyber ...
Parachinar (Pashto: پاړه چنار; Urdu: پاڑہ چنار) is a city and the capital of the Kurram District in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. [ 2 ] Parachinar is situated on the west of Peshawar , that juts into the Paktia , Logar and Nangarhar provinces of Afghanistan .
Kurram, on the other hand, was an agency in the province bordering Kohat District. It is also described in the Gazetteer. A Political Agency in the North-West Frontier Province, lying between 33° 19' and 34° 3' N. and 69° 39' and 70° 28' E., and comprising that section of the valley of the Kurram river which lies between the Peiwar Kotal in ...
Reports emerged of intense gunfire in Lower Kurram Agency between the Alizai and Bagan tribes. [9] [12] By 28 November, 110 people had been killed in fighting across Kurram [12] with an additional 150 being wounded as well as over 300 shops and 100 houses being razed. [13] [14] The death toll had risen to 133 by 3 December, with 177 being ...
The 2023 Kurram Parachinar conflict started as a land dispute and turned into a series of sectarian clashes that took place in the Kurram District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan near Pak-Afghan Border, from May to July 2023.
The 2007 Kurram Agency conflict began on 6 April 2007 in Kurram Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan when a Sunni gunman on a Friday prayer held by Shia in Parachinar. It left more than 40 people dead and more than 150 people wounded .
Upper Kurram Tehsil is a subdivision located in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The population is 253,478 according to the 2017 census. [1] History