Karakhela or Kara khel is a village about kilometre from West of
Parachinar
Parachinar (; ) is a city and the capital of the Kurram District in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
Parachinar is situated on the west of Peshawar, that juts into the Paktia, Logar and Nangarhar provinces of Afghanistan. With ...
City and about 10 kilometers to the East Pak Afghan Border, the famous
Durand Line
The Durand Line (; ; ), also known as the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, is a international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in South Asia. The western end runs to the border with Iran and the eastern end to the border with China.
The D ...
. According to the Census of Pakistan, 2017 Village
List Karakhela has 3,934 personal population with 389 houses. The District Kurram was known as Kurram Agency,
Federally Administered Tribal Area Pakistan. The Famous Shalozan is on north and Nastikot village is in South.Popular native plant is
Elaeagnus angustifolia
''Elaeagnus angustifolia'', commonly called Russian olive, silver berry, oleaster, or wild olive, is a species of ''Elaeagnus'', native to Asia and limited areas of eastern Europe. It is widely established in North America as an introduced specie ...
commonly known as silver berry or Russian olives(Sinzalay). Karakhela used to have a gross production of Artemisia kurramensis(Tharkha). Which is a medicinal plant broadly used in medicine. Literacy rate is increasing in the village now. Village Karakhela have produced several Engineers, Army officers and few doctors as well. Pure drinking water is a problem in whole district kurram but village Karakhela is suffering far worse since ages. Government really need to focus on this village.
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Populated places in Kurram District