Pachir Aw Agam (, ), or Pachir Wa Agam, is a

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in the southeast of

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, bordering

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. Its population, which is 100%

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, was estimated at 39,280 in 2002, of whom 15,700 were children under 12. The district is within the heartland of the Khogyani tribe of Pashtuns.Nangarhar Province Tribal Map (Page 9)
Naval Postgraduate School. The district centre is the village of Pachir Aw Agam. The district has faced heavy conflict for at least a quarter of a century. It was a stronghold of the

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during the Soviet war and was heavily bombed during the 2001 United States–led war. The cave complex of

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, one of the most important strongholds of

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and the

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, is in Pachir Aw Agam district. As result, the district was the site of a

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–led operation in 2001 to clear Tora Bora of insurgents, and an attempt of ISIL-K to

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both the cave complex as well as its surroundings in 2017. The Pachir Aw Agam District consists of two parts first Upper Pachir and second lower Pachir.

References

UNHCR District Profile
dated 2002-05-13, accessed 2006-07-20 (PDF).

External links

Map of Pachir Wa Agam district
(PDF) Districts of Nangarhar Province {{Nangarhar-geo-stub