Tag: Valleys in Federally Administered Tribal Areas

Kurram is a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Until 2018, it was an agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas, with the merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it became a district. Geographically, it covers the Kurram Valley region which is a valley in the northwestern part of Pakistan. Most of the population is Pashtun and the main religion is Islam Read more...

Surveyed as K6, but also known as Baltistan Peak. This is a notable peak of the Masherbrum Mountains, a subrange of the Karakoram mountain range in Gilgit Baltistan region of Pakistan. Despite being much lower than its sister mountains, the Eight-thousanders and high 7000m peaks such as Masherbrum, it has huge, steep faces, and great relief above the nearby valleys. Read more...

The Tirah also spells as Terah, Tira, Tera region, also called the Tirah Valley , is located in Khyber, Kurram and Orakzai agencies in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan (33.73N 71.01E), while its smaller part straddles the border to the north lying in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. Tirah lies between the Khyber Pass and the Khanki Valley. It is inhabited Read more...