Upper Kurram Tehsil
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Upper Kurram Tehsil
OR:
Upper Kurram Tehsil on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Upper Kurram Tehsil is a subdivision located in
Kurram District Kurram District () is a district in the Kohat Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The name Kurram comes from the river ''Kwarma'' () in Pashto, which itself derives from the Sanskrit word ''Krumu'' (). Until 2018, it funct ...
,
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (; ; , ; abbr. KP or KPK), formerly known as the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), is a Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Pakistan. Located in the Northern Pakistan, northwestern region of the country, Khyber ...
,
Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
. The population is 253,478 according to the 2017 census.


History

In 2014, Upper Kurram's Assistant Political Agent Maqsood Hassan was arrested by the
National Accountability Bureau The National Accountability Bureau (; abbreviated NAB) is Pakistan's anti-corruption agency. Its chairman is Nazir Ahmed Butt, a retired general. History The Ehtesab Act, 1997 established an Ehtesab Cell, charged with the investigation and pr ...
on corruption charges. In November 2017, a US drone strike was carried out on a house in Ghozgarhy, Upper Kurram. This action was condemned by the
Foreign Office Foreign may refer to: Government * Foreign policy, how a country interacts with other countries * Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in many countries ** Foreign Office, a department of the UK government ** Foreign office and foreign minister * United ...
. Four people were killed in this strike.


Geography


Adjacent administrative units

*
Sherzad District Sherzad is a district in the west of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. It has a short (approximately 5 km) stretch of border with Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the Lis ...
,
Nangarhar Province Nangarhār (Pashto: ; Dari: ), also called Nangrahar or Ningrahar, is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the eastern part of the country and Border, bordering Logar Province, Logar, Kabul Province, Kabul, Laghman Province, Laghm ...
,
Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...
(north) *
Khogyani District Khogyani (, ) is a Districts of Afghanistan, district in the south of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bordering Pakistan. Its population is entirely Pashtun people, Pashtun, and was estimated at 146,852 in 2002. The district is within the heartl ...
, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan (northeast) *
Pachir Aw Agam District Pachir Aw Agam (, ), or Pachir Wa Agam, is a district in the southeast of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bordering Pakistan. Its population, which is 100% Pashtun, was estimated at 39,280 in 2002, of whom 15,700 were children under 12. The distr ...
, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan (northeast) * Central Kurram F.R. (east) * Lower Kurram Tehsil (southeast) * Zazi Maidan District,
Khost Province Khost (Pashto/Dari: ) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan located in the southeastern part of the country. Khost consists of thirteen districts and the city of Khost serves as the capital of the province. Historically, Khost used to be a par ...
, Afghanistan (southwest) * Dand Aw Patan District,
Paktia Province Paktia (Pashto – ''Paktyā'') is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the east of the country. Forming part of the larger Loya Paktia region, Paktia Province is divided into 15 districts and has a population of roughly 623,00 ...
, Afghanistan (southwest) *
Zazi District Zazi District (, ), also called zazi, Dzadzi or Aryob, is a district in Paktia Province, Afghanistan. The main town is Aryob. The district is within the heartland of the Zazi tribe of Pakhtuns.Shiite Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib () as both his political successor (caliph) and as the spiritual leader of the Muslim community (imam). However, his right is understood ...
.


See also

*
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 ...
*
List of tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa In Pakistan, a tehsil is an administrative sub-division of a District. Those are sub-divided into union councils. Here is a list of all the tehsils of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. List of the tehsils List of the tehsils by population over the yea ...


References

Tehsils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Populated places in Kurram District {{Kurram-geo-stub