Kurram District
Kurram District (Pashto: کرم ولسوالۍ, Urdu: ضلع کرم) is a district in the Kohat Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The name Kurram comes from the river Kwarma (Pashto: کورمه) in Pashto which itself derives from the Sanskrit word Krumuḥ (Sanskrit: क्रुमुः).
Kurram District
ضلع کرم کرم ولسوالۍ Kurram Agency کرم ایجنسئ کرم ایجنسئ | |
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District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
Top: View of Kurram from Paktia Border Bottom: Mountains near Parachinar | |
Kurram District (red) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
| Country | Pakistan |
| Province | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
| Division | Kohat |
| Headquarter | Parachinar |
| Number of Tehsils | 3 |
| Government | |
| • Type | District Administration |
| • Deputy Commissioner | Aafaq Wazir (BPS-18 PCS) |
| • District Police Officer | Abdul Samad Khan (BPS-18 PSP) |
| • District Health Officer | N/A |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3,380 km2 (1,310 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 619,553 |
| • Density | 180/km2 (470/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+5 (PST) |
| Main language | Pashto (98.6%) (1998 census): 20 |
| Website | kurram |
Until 2018, it functioned as an agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. However, with the merger of the FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it attained the status of a district. Geographically, it covers the Kurram Valley region which is a valley in the northwestern of Pakistan. Most of the population is Pashtun and the main religion is Islam (Shia and Sunni) in Kurram. Major tribes living in the Kurram District are Bangash, Turi, Orakzai, Wazir, Mamozai, Muqbil, Zazai, Mandan(Banusi), Paracha, Mangal, Ghilzai, Para Chamkani, Hazara and Khoshi tribe (Persian speaking tribe).
Up until the year 2000, when the previous administrative divisions were abolished, the Kurram District was part of the Peshawar Division in the North-West Frontier Province (Now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) of Pakistan.