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Khyber District

Pakistani administrative area

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

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 of Afghanistan to the west, Orakzai District to the south, Kurram District to southwest, Peshawar to the east and Mohmand District to the north.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Khyber District” as pakistani administrative area. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Khyber, District and Pakistani.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Khyber, District and Pakistani providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Khyber District”, the useful work is to connect “pakistani administrative area” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Khyber District” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.