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Orakzai District is a district in the Kohat Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Before 1973, it was part of FR Kohat. Up until 2018, it was an agency within the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas. However, with the merger of the FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, it attained the status of a district.
Khyber District is a district in the Peshawar Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Until 2018, it was an agency of the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas. With the merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2018, it became a district. It ranges from the Tirah valley down to Peshawar. It borders Nangarhar Province to the west, Orakzai District to the south, Kurram District to southwest, Peshawar to the east and Mohmand District to the north.
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Mamuzai is a Pashtun Sub-tribe of Orakzai in Pakistan. Several Mamuzai live in Kohat, Peshawar, Islamabad, and in other areas in Pakistan. Mamozai also has sub-tribes.This is not to be confused with the region along the Pakistan border, Mamuzai. As of 2016, the returning of displaced individuals back to Mamuzai has been started.
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NA-37 Kurram is a constituency for the National Assembly of Pakistan mainly comprising Upper Kurram Subdivision of Kurram District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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Ghotak Eisa Khel is a village populated by Isa Khel Pashtuns in the Upper Orakzai Subdivision, now part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.
PK-94 Orakzai is a constituency for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.It was created in 2018 after merger of FATA with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa before 2019 elections. This constituency covers entire Orakzai District.
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- ↑ "LIST OF RETURNING OFFICERS AND ASSISTANT RETURNING OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES". Election Commission of Pakistan. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
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