Kurram Agency

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Kurram Agency was an administrative district in Pakistan’s former Federally Administered Tribal Areas, located along the Afghan border and known for its strategic Kurram Valley and significant Shia Muslim population.

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Label Occurrences
Kurram Agency canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf former administrative district
tribal agency
abolishedAsAgency 2018
administrativeStatusBefore2018 tribal agency under FATA
borders Afghanistan
bordersProvince Khost Province
Nangarhar Province
Paktia Province
bordersRegion Khyber Agency
linked to: Khyber District

North Waziristan Agency
Orakzai Agency
borderType international border with Afghanistan
country Pakistan
ethnicGroup Pashtuns
experienced militancy and insurgency
sectarian conflict
governedBy Political Agent (under FCR system)
hasBorderCrossing Kurram–Afghanistan border crossings
hasCapital Parachinar
hasLanguage Pashto
linked to: Pashto language

Urdu (as official language of Pakistan)
hasMajorityReligion Islam
hasSignificantCommunity Shia Muslims
linked to: Shia Islam

Sunni Muslims
linked to: Sunni Islam
hasTown Alizai
Sadda
Thall
hasValley Kurram Valley
historicalRegion Tribal Areas
knownFor significant Shia Muslim population
strategic Kurram Valley
legalFramework Frontier Crimes Regulations
locatedIn Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region (post-FATA merger)
linked to: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

northwestern Pakistan
locatedInValley Kurram Valley
mergedInto Kurram District
partOf Federally Administered Tribal Areas
postMergerStatus subsumed into Kurram District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
religiousTension Shia–Sunni conflict
strategicImportance access route between Pakistan and central Afghanistan
proximity to Kabul
timeZone Pakistan Standard Time
traversedByRiver Kurram River
tribalComposition Bangash tribe
Mangal tribe
Orakzai tribe
Turi tribe
utcOffset +05:00

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Referenced by (3)

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Federally Administered Tribal Areas composedOf Kurram Agency
Orakzai Agency borderedBy Kurram Agency
North Waziristan Agency borders Kurram Agency