Khyber District

Clans

The Afridi Tribe is subclassified into eight sub-tribes listed below.

• Kuki khel
• Qambar Khel
• Zakha Khel
• Kamar Khel
• Malikdin khel
• Aka Khel
• Sepah
• Adam Khel
• shlober
• aka khel

Administration

Khyber District is currently subdivided into these tehsils.

Provincial Assembly

Khyber Pass

Khyber Pass is a major feature of the Khyber District. Its narrowest point is at Ali Masjid, where the Battle of Ali Masjid occurred. The Khyber Rifles paramilitary organization originated in the area and took their name from it.

Khyber Pass copy

A Khyber Pass copy is a homemade firearm characteristic of the Khyber area.

Khyber Pass Railway

Both the Khyber Mail (passenger train) and the Khyber train safari routes passed through the Khyber District via the Khyber Pass. Khyber Pass Railway is a railway line in Pakistan.

Education

Khyber Agency is the most literate of all the tribal areas, with a literacy rate of 34.2%, as of 2007 – quite far ahead of the next highest agency, Kurram, at 26.5%. It is also the only agency where the majority of its men are literate, at 57.2%, which is almost 20% ahead of the next highest agency, Kurram. However, its female literacy rate of 10.1% is second after Kurram's 14.4%.

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Demographics

|1951 |216,622 |1961 |301,319 |1972 |378,032 |1981 |284,256 |1998 |546,730 |2017 |984,246 |2023 |1,146,267

As of the 2023 census, Khyber district has 166,805 households and a population of 1,146,267. The district has a sex ratio of 109.18 males to 100 females and a literacy rate of 38.45%: 58.08% for males and 17.16% for females. 395,308 (34.5% of the surveyed population) are under 10 years of age. 94,707 (8.26%) live in urban areas. 3,605 (0.39%) people in the district were religious minorities, mainly Christians. Pashto was the predominant language, spoken by 99.70% of the population.

The majority of the tribes in the Khyber District are Afridis. However, there are other tribes residing too. Those include Mullagori, Shilmani, Bangash and Shinwari.

Insurgency

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Islam and Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi militants began entering Khyber Agency after the US-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Due to the absence of a strong government and security network in the area and its rough mountainous terrain, the area became a hotbed of insurgents and over 90 percent of the agency came under their control in 2007. After 2007, the militants began attacking the government and military establishments in the KPK province, killing many people and wounding many more. The Pakistan Army began an operation in 2008 to clear the agency of militants and restore normal life in the area. The operation continued for years and resulted in the killing of hundreds of TTP militants and Pakistan Army soldiers. The local Aman Lashkars or peace committees supported the army by fighting the foreign terrorists. By July 2012, a major part of the district was cleared but military operation continued in Bara Tehsil of the district. The operation also produced a large number of internally displaced people. In October 2014, Pakistan Armed Forces launched a military offensive in Khyber Agency code-named Operation Khyber-1.

Sports

People residing to this area enjoy Cricket. Famous Pakistani cricketer Shahid Afridi and his son-in-law Shaheen Afridi also belong to this area.

References

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